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Just look at that Forbes 400. Takes a billion three to get on the Forbes 400 this year. And the aggregate wealth is just staggering. And those people are paying less percentage of their total income to the federal government than their receptionists are. [...] I'll bet a million dollars against any member of the Forbes 400 who challenges - me that the average for the Forbes 400 will be less than the average of their receptionists.

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I've often felt there might be more to be gained by studying business failures than business successes.

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The patient that's on the floor with the cardiac arrest is not Wall Street. It's the American economy.

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When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.

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I was lucky to have the right heroes. Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you how you'll turn out to be. The qualities of the one you admire are the traits that you, with a little practice, can make your own, and that, if practiced, will become habit forming.

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The woman that comes in, takes the wastebasket away, she's paying 15.3 or whatever it is on payroll tax alone. I mean it is - I never had it so good.

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We've had public companies in the past in that business and they bleed. We've got a lot more blood than they do.

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If you knew what was going to happen in the economy, you still wouldn't necessarily know what was going to happen in the stock market.

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When bills come due, only cash is legal tender. Don't leave home without it.

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When you get to my age, you’ll measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. That’s the ultimate test of how you’ve lived your life.

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If knowing history made you rich, librarians would be billionaires.

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Having first rate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom.

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Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.

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I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out.

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I'm not worried they're all about the investments we make. I mean, listen, this country - we've got $46,000 or $47,000 of GDP per capita. Now, we've done pretty darn well. We'll do better in the future.

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You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.

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It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes.

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We make investment decisions based on our evaluation of the most profitable combination of probabilities.

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If you don't feel comfortable owning something for 10 years, then don't own it for 10 minutes.

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I may have more money than you, but money doesn't make the difference. If there is any difference between you and me, it may simply be that I get up and have a chance to do what I love to do, every day. If you learn anything from me, this is the best advice I can give you.

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