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That's been lost. It's a huge problem. What you have is you have the major institutions of the world all wanting to deleverage. They want to take down their assets and liabilities. What seemed so easy to borrow against a year ago now looks like rat poison to them. So they're trying to deleverage. There is only one institution in the world that can leverage up in a way that's all a countervailing force to that, and that's the United States Treasury.

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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

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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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If horses had controlled investment decisions, there would have been no auto industry.

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The trick is, when there is nothing to do, do nothing.

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I'd rather have a $10 million business making 15 per cent than a $100 million business making 5 per cent.

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Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date.

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Having a large amount of leverage is like driving a car with a dagger on the steering wheel pointed at your heart. If you do that, you will be a better driver. There will be fewer accidents but when they happen, they will be fatal.

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Take the probability of loss times the amount of possible loss from the probability of gain times the amount of possible gain. That is what we're trying to do. It's imperfect, but that's what it's all about.

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

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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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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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I've argued with the senators and congressmen I've talked to. You don't want to be too little too late. If you buy them at the right price, you may be buying two trillion of face value.

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Emotional makeup is more important than technical skill

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Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change.

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Observing that the market was FREQUENTLY efficient, EMT Adherents went on to conclude incorrectly that it was ALWAYS efficient. The difference between these propositions is night and day.

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Our goal is to find an outstanding business at a sensible price, not a mediocre business at a bargain price.

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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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Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks he owns businesses, not pieces of paper.

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So some guy may know how to make money in cocoa beans, but I don't so I just let him have that. But it's got to be something I understand. It's got to be a business with fundamentally good economics. It's got to be a management that I like and trust and admire. And it's got to be a price that makes sense.

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