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It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.

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Writing checks to the IRS that include strings of zeros does not bother me ... Overall, we feel extraordinarily lucky to have been dealt a hand in life that enables us to write large checks to the government rather than one requiring the government to regularly write checks to us-say, because we are disabled or unemployed.

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Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

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To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.

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The strategy we've adopted precludes our following standard diversification dogma. Many pundits would therefore say the strategy must be riskier than that employed by more conventional investors. We disagree. We believe that a policy of portfolio concentration may well decrease risk if it raises, as it should, both the intensity with which an investor thinks about a business and the comfort-level he must feel with its economic characteristics before buying into it.

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To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.

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I understand small business growth. I was one.

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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

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Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

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My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

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Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

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I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

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Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

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Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.

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Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.

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In our view, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction carrying dangers that, while latent, are potentially lethal.

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My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

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Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

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What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn't be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.

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