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The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.

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

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On his Giving Pledge philanthropy: The way I got the message out was to get a copy of FORBES, look down that 400 list and start making phone calls! Bill and Melinda [Gates] did the same thing. So keep publishing the list so I can milk it.

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I would say the biggest single cause was we had an incredible residential real estate bubble.

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

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The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.

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An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes.

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In our view, though, investment students need only two well-taught courses-How to Value a Business, and How to Think about Market Prices. Your goal as an investor should simply be to purchase, at a rational price, a part interest in an easily-understandable business who's earnings are virtually certain to be materially higher five, ten and twenty years from now.

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Invest in as much of yourself as you can, you are your own biggest asset by far.

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I do not like debt and do not like to invest in companies that have too much debt, particularly long-term debt. With long-term debt, increases in interest rates can drastically affect company profits and make future cash flows less predictable.

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Cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.

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I think you'll have plenty of scrutiny as how the money's invested. I mean, just like the RFC. When the RFC operated, people knew which institutions they were buying preferred stock in. And it worked very well.

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Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

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That which is not worth doing at all is not worth doing well.

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The truth is, everything that has happened in my life... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better.

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They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences as you go through life.

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You can't help some increase from this point. I don't want any viewer to go away think a magic wand exists in Congress. So they're going to see some more bad news. But if we do this, we're doing the right thing.

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The power of unconditional love. I mean, there is no power on earth like unconditional love.

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The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

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It is to our advantage to have securities do nothing price-wise for months, or perhaps years, while we are buying them.

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