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We set no volume goals in our insurance business generally-and certainly not in reinsurance-as virtually any volume can be achieved if profitability standards are ignored.

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Unless your answers are clearly better, copy the answers of your betters.

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It irritates the hell out of me but you can't buy love.

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Banking is very good business if you don't do anything dumb.

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A pack of lemmings looks like a group of rugged individualists compared with Wall Street when it gets a concept in its teeth.

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Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.

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If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

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Never test the depth of river with both the feet.

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If you are a professional and have confidence, then I would advocate lots of concentration.

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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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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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In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to 'model' rather than to 'market.'

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There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

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Investors, of course, can, by their own behavior make stock ownership highly risky. And many do. Active trading, attempts to "time" market movements, inadequate diversification, the payment of high and unnecessary fees to managers and advisors, and the use of borrowed money can destroy the decent returns that a life-long owner of equities would otherwise enjoy. Indeed, borrowed money has no place in the investor's tool kit.

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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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What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact.

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You have to turn over a lot of rocks to find those little anomalies. You have to find the companies that are off the map - way off the map.

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I think confidence will come back.

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If you don't know jewelry, know the jeweler.

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I have a house that I bought 55 years ago. It's warm in the winter; it's cool in the summer. It has everything I wanted, plus it has all kinds of good memories. Like my kids, I have good thoughts about that. I can't imagine living any better.

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