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We need a tax system that essentially takes very good care of the people who just really aren't as well adapted to the market system but are nevertheless doing useful things in the society.

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They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences as you go through life.

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We've got all the ingredients for a sensational future.

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We've been in a recession, by any common sense definition, because if you look at the American public, they've got 20 billion - 20 trillion, I should say, worth of residential homes.

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I've often felt there might be more to be gained by studying business failures than business successes.

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Very successful people say no to almost everything.

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Shares are not mere pieces of paper. They represent part ownership of a business. So, when contemplating an investment, think like a prospective owner.

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Intensity is the price of excellence.

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People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed.

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Asset-heavy businesses generally earn low rates of return - rates that often barely provide enough capital to fund the inflationary needs of the existing business, with nothing left over for real growth, for distribution to owners, or for acquisition of new businesses

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Never invest in a business you don't understand.

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I think people - what people want to do is make [economy] get worse.

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The single most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power.

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Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers.

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It's never paid to bet against America.

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There are certain things that cannot be adequately explained to a virgin either by words or pictures.

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I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.

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[Economy] is flat on the floor, and the paramedics have arrived. And they shouldn't argue about whether they put the resuscitation equipment a quarter of an inch this way or a quarter of an inch this way, or they shouldn't start criticizing the patient, because he didn't have a blood pressure test or something like that. They should do what's needed right now.

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I don't want to give a lecture to this body that's out there. You know, I mean, having had the heart attack, I want to get it back functioning. And as a practical matter, I mean if you were Bear Stearns, and you were a shareholder, you know, you lost 90 to 95 percent of your money. A good many lost their jobs. They lost very cushy lives, many of them.

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Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

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