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

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It takes 150 years to build an investment bank and only five minutes to convince you to sell me preferred stock in it at a 10% interest rate.

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The real fortunes in this country have been made by people who have been right about the business they invested in, and not right about the timing of the stock market.

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I mean there is no capital requirements to it or anything of the sort. And basically, I said there were possibly financial weapons of mass destruction, and they had them. They destroyed AIG. They certainly contributed to the destruction of Bear Sterns and Lehman. Although Lehman had other problems, too.

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You will be right, over the course of many transactions, if your hypotheses are correct, your facts are correct, and your reasoning is correct. True conservatism is only possible through knowledge and reason.

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Tell me your heroes and I'll tell you how your life will end up

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We have provided capital here with a couple of institutions recently. The Federal government did that in the '30s for the RFC and I think there could well be a proper role for government in that.

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Well, it may be all right in practice, but it will never work in theory

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I'm happy when I can spend every day doing the things that I like to do. That's my luxury.

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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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You don't ever ask a barber whether you need a haircut.

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

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My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest.

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I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business.

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It is more important to say "no" to an opportunity, than to say "yes".

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The approach and strategies are very similar in that you gather all the information you can and then keep adding to that base of information as things develop. You do whatever the probabilities indicated based on the knowledge that you have at that time, but you are always willing to modify your behaviour or your approach as you get new information. In bridge, you behave in a way that gets the best from your partner. And in business, you behave in the way that gets the best from your managers and your employees.

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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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If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

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If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

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I prefer liquor store robbers with hungry kids to companies that locate offshore to avoid U.S. taxes.

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