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Is management rational?

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We're paying maybe 25 percent of the income tax, but the payroll tax is over a third of the receipts of the federal government. And they don't take that from me on capital gains. They don't take that from me on dividends.

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

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Knowing the edge of your competency is important. If you think you know more than you do, you will get in trouble.

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In the insurance business, there is no statute of limitation on stupidity.

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The Fed is the greatest hedge fund in history.

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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

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We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.

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I'm putting all my money in the Chinese toy market.

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I am out of step with present conditions. When the game is no longer played your way, it is only human to say the new approach is all wrong, bound to lead to trouble, and so on. On one point, however, I am clear. I will not abandon a previous approach whose logic I understand ( although I find it difficult to apply ) even though it may mean foregoing large, and apparently easy, profits to embrace an approach which I don't fully understand, have not practiced successfully, and which possibly could lead to substantial permanent loss of capital.

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The patient that's on the floor with the cardiac arrest is not Wall Street. It's the American economy.

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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

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Other guys read Playboy. I read annual reports.

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Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

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Investing is simple, but not easy.

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I don't want to give a lecture to this body that's out there. You know, I mean, having had the heart attack, I want to get it back functioning. And as a practical matter, I mean if you were Bear Stearns, and you were a shareholder, you know, you lost 90 to 95 percent of your money. A good many lost their jobs. They lost very cushy lives, many of them.

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He must never forget Charlie's plea: Tell me where I'm going to die, so I'll never go there.

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If we have a strength, it is in recognizing when we are operating well within our circle of competence and when we are approaching the perimeter.

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Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay.

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I think any time you couple the term "Wall Street" with "bailout" or something like that, you know - I don't like what's going on in Wall Street.

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