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Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.

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It is easier to rationalize than it is to be rational.

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I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.

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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

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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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I look at everything. That's my job. I really do, every day. I think about everything.

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We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet.

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That goes back to 1932, although it was really implemented in '33 under Jesse Jones, and it invested in mostly banks initially and preferred stock and that sort of thing. So there are two things needed in the system, the one that's needed overwhelmingly is liquidity. I mean, when people are trying to [unintelligible], there has to be somebody there to buy.

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

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Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press

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People do, as long as you have markets, you'll have excesses.

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We look for things I can understand. A lot of businesses I don't understand.

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Very successful people say no to almost everything.

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Bull markets and Bear markets can obscure mathematical laws, they cannot repeal them.

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The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

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OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched.

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Confidence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen. When you have it, you don't even think about it. It's indispensable. You can go years without thinking about it. When it's gone for five minutes, it's the only thing to think about.

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My job is essentially just corralling more and more and more facts and information, and occasionally seeing whether that leads to some action.

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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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If I were the treasury secretary or head of the Fed, you know, I would try to scare the hell the out of the private sector and say, you better save this because you're going down with the ship.

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