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In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.

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On his Giving Pledge philanthropy: The way I got the message out was to get a copy of FORBES, look down that 400 list and start making phone calls! Bill and Melinda [Gates] did the same thing. So keep publishing the list so I can milk it.

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The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself... The more you learn, the more you'll earn.

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I don't think it would be crazy to have a model or an entity model on the Reconstruction Finance Corp.

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I put heavy weight on certainty. It's not risky to buy securities at a fraction of what they're worth.

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You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.

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A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

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

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Equities will do well over time - you just have to avoid getting excited when other people are getting excited.

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When I take a look at a company's annual report, if I don't understand it, they don't want me to understand it.

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Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.

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We set no volume goals in our insurance business generally-and certainly not in reinsurance-as virtually any volume can be achieved if profitability standards are ignored.

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Trust is like the air we breathe--when it's present, nobody really notices; when it's absent, everybody notices.

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In the end we must have people to match our principles, not the reverse.

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Resolution Trust Company was set up to liquidate a bunch of assets that the government had inherited because the savings and loans went broke.

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We do not view the company itself as the ultimate owner of our business assets but instead view the company as a conduit through which our shareholders own assets.

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The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does.

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Don't pass up something that's attractive today because you think you will find something way more attractive tomorrow.

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I understand Goldman Sachs businesses. We do lot of business with him, and GE has been - I think it's the longest running stock in the Dow Jones industrial average. It will be 100 years now it will be around. I hope I'm around then, too. And it was an attractive investment. And we have had a lot of money around, over the last two years, and we're seeing things that are attractive now.

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You should invest in a business that even a fool can run, because someday a fool will.

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