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" Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'. "

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" When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results. "

" We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds. "

" If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it. "

" Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. "

" I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over. "

" Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations. "

" Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction. "

" The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule. "

" You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it. "

" We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful. "

" We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time. "

" If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster. "

" I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game. "

" Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. "

" If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. "

" Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars. "

" It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride. "

" Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value. "

" It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. "

" 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. "

" There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. "

" 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. "

" Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong. "

" Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it. "

" Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. "