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Like I say, I don't think it'll be done perfectly. Maybe we'll end up with a little bit better [economy] system.

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We need a tax system that essentially takes very good care of the people who just really aren't as well adapted to the market system but are nevertheless doing useful things in the society.

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Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.

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If you can eliminate the government as a 39.6% partner, then you will be much better off.

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The problem with commodities is that you are betting on what someone else would pay for them in six months. The commodity itself isn't going to do anything for you....it is an entirely different game to buy a lump of something and hope that somebody else pays you more for that lump two years from now than it is to buy something that you expect to produce income for you over time.

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With enough insider information and a million dollars, you can go broke in a year.

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There is no question we have an access stock.

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If I knew where I was going to want to live the next five or 10 years I would buy a home and I'd finance it with a 30-year mortgage... It's a terrific deal.

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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

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I've never been very fully employed either but just think of what it's like, you know, to go home with a mortgage payment you know and kids and everything else. My dad had that happen to him in the early '30s.

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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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It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

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[Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.

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

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Never test the depth of river with both the feet.

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It's better to build than to buy if you can find the right people.

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There's nothing inappropriate about having debt in America. It's what helped us grow over time. And it's when debt gets out of control that you worry.

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Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; making money is the by-product of our guiding purpose. If you're doing something you love, you're more likely to put your all into it, and that generally equates to making money

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The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage.

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What's nice about investing is you don't have to swing at every pitch.

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