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If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless.

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I'm putting all my money in the Chinese toy market.

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Your money can be inflated away but your knowledge and talent cannot.

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Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

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To invest successfully, you need not understand beta, efficient markets, modern portfolio theory, option pricing or emerging markets. You may, in fact, be better off knowing nothing of these. That, of course, is not the prevailing view at most business schools, whose finance curriculum tends to be dominated by such subjects. In our view, though, investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business, and How to Think About Market Prices.

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We like to buy businesses, but we don't like to sell them.

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... the best way to own common stocks is through an index fund.

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Goldman Sachs saying they might be interested in such an investment. I'm familiar with the company. I've known the management, the current management, Jack Welch before Jeff Immelt. I've known him for decades.

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I think it will get moving faster. I mean once you get it off the - once credit flows - now the recession is going to get worse.

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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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Over the years, a number of very smart people have learned the hard way that a long string of impressive numbers multiplied by a single zero always equals zero.

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Investing requires qualities of temperament way more than it requires qualities of intellect.

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Beware [of] the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns.

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Asset values and earning power are the dominant factors affecting the valuation of a controlling interest in a business. Market price, which governs valuation of minority interest positions, is of little or no importance in valuing a controlling interest.

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Inactivity strikes us as intelligent behavior.

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It's much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.

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I choose to work with every single person that I work with. That ends up being the most important factor. I don't interact with people I don't like or admire. That's the key. It's like marrying.

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Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.

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Inflation could be a very - is a likely consequence out of what's going on now.

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A lot of people disagree with me on this, I believe in mark to market.

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