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I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don't like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn't that a little like saving up sex for your old age?

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The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the passive group - the "know-nothings" - must win.

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

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I know the country works extremely well. You know, but when it isn't clogged up.

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Things you like to do should be a hobby of yours, but things the world does should be a business of yours.

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Focus on return on equity, not earnings per share.

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Calculate "owner earnings" to get a true reflection of value.

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I mean there is no capital requirements to it or anything of the sort. And basically, I said there were possibly financial weapons of mass destruction, and they had them. They destroyed AIG. They certainly contributed to the destruction of Bear Sterns and Lehman. Although Lehman had other problems, too.

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You could be somewhere where the mail was delayed three weeks and do just fine investing.

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When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

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Managers thinking about accounting issues should never forget one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite riddles: How many legs does a dog have, if you call a tail a leg? The answer: Four, because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

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You get in a lot of trouble when you start putting fictitious numbers.

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If you're an investor, you're looking on what the asset is going to do, if you're a speculator, you're commonly focusing on what the price of the object is going to do, and that's not our game.

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They [Goverment] take from the woman who comes in and takes the wastebaskets out.

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Be fearful when the markets get greedy, be greedy when the markets get fearful.

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When a management with reputation for brilliance gets hooked up with a business with a reputation for bad economics, it's the reputation of the business that remains intact.

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It will be good for us in the long run, and I mean there are, you know, six and a half billion people in this world. And it's great for 300 million to keep enjoying more and more property, but I think it's terrific if, you know, the remainder do.

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There's no use running if you're on the wrong road.

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Activity is the enemy of investment returns.

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Exercise humility and restraint.

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