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Good big decisions do not take time at all, if they do you are in trouble.

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If you look at the Forbes 400, they are paying a lower rate, accounting payroll taxes, than their secretary or - whomever around their office.

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I don't know that I could draw one that's perfect. But I'd rather by approximately right than precisely wrong, and it would be precisely wrong to turn it down.

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We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form.

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Like most trends, at the beginning it's driven by fundamentals, at some point speculation takes over. What the wise man does in the beginning, the fool does in the end.

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Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

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In the great majority of cases we simply do not know enough about the industry or company to come to sensible judgments-in that situation we pass.

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What's going to happen - things we're doing are going to have some inflationary consequences.

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When Berkshire Hathaway laid out three billion dollars for GE today, we didn't spend it, we invested it. When the Federal government buys the mortgages, they're not spending it, they're investing it. Now, they're investing it in distress type assets but they're buying them at distress prices if they buy them at market. It's the kind of stuff I love to do. I just don't have 700 million. Maybe we could go in it together.

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I get to do what I like to do every single day of the year.

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Inflation could be a very - is a likely consequence out of what's going on now.

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It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.

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If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.

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I've seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage -- leverage being borrowed money. You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing.

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The stock market is a wonderfully efficient mechanism for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient.

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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.

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Well, I think the biggest mistake is not learning the habits of saving properly early. Because saving is a habit. And then, trying to get rich quick. It's pretty easy to get well-to-do slowly. But it's not easy to get rich quick.

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You should look at stocks as small pieces of business.

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I don't want to hold out false hopes that the - by some magic moment, that things will turn around in a couple months because they wouldn't, Charlie. I mean, and it's a big mistake to try and mislead people.

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The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It's optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer.

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