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

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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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It's never paid to bet against America.

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They [Goverment] take from the woman who comes in and takes the wastebaskets out.

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I lose confidence in other people, all kinds of institutions.

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Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.

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I don't like what's going on with the executive compensation.

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We've seen what can be accomplished when we use 50% of our human capacity. If you visualize what 100% can do, you'll join me as an unbridled optimist about America's future.

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Knowing what to leave out is just as important as knowing what to focus on.

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This economy doesn't work well without the lubrication of credit and trust.

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We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'

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Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.

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If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

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The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people...The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be.

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[The U.S. Treasury] can borrow basically unlimited amounts. They can stay there for years and years. These assets will be worth more money over time. So when Merrill Lynch sells a bunch of mortgage-related assets at 22 cents on the dollar like they did a month or so ago, the buyer goes - is going to make money, and he's going to make a lot more money if it happens to be an institution like the U.S. government which has very, very cheap borrowing costs.

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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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America should stand for more than just wealth.

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

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Wild swings in share prices have more to do with the "lemming- like" behaviour of institutional investors than with the aggregate returns of the company they own.

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It's us fun being a horse when the tractor comes along, or the blacksmith when the car comes along.

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