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" The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it. "
Warren Buffett
Time
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" It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride. "
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" When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact. "
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" I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board. "
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" If a business does well, the stock eventually follows. "
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" Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it. "
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" I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years. "
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Day
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" A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. "
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" Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre. "
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" You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing. "
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Opportunities
My Life
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" The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule. "
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Lose
Forget
First
" I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it. "
Warren Buffett
Only
People
Think
" You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate. "
Warren Buffett
Financial
You
Ability
" I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one. "
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My Life
Life
Court
" In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497. "
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Rose
World
Oil
" Our favorite holding period is forever. "
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Favorite
Forever
Holding
" It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction. "
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Behavior
Better
Direction
" I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over. "
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Over
Step
Look
" We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II. "
Warren Buffett
Truth
More
World
" The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body. "
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Body
People
Teacher
" We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out. "
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Out
Will
Get
" The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard. "
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You
Big
People
" The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective. "
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Business
Behavior
Reward
" Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote. "
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Wrote
Read
" When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results. "
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Interesting
Ignorance
Results
" It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price. "
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Wonderful
Price
Fair
" If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. "
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History
Game
People
" There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. "
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Things
Human
Easy
" Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation. "
Warren Buffett
Inflation
Bring
Will
" The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get. "
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Work
You
Think
" I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can't be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they're not getting some other matter. "
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Reputation
People
Political