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The range of derivatives contracts is limited only by the imagination of man (or sometimes, so it seems, madmen). Say you want to write a contract speculating on the number of twins to be born in Nebraska in 2020. No problem-at a price, you will easily find an obliging counterparty.

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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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Two rules: 1. Preserve the principal 2. When in doubt, see Rule #1.

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The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.

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Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.

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The public does not know what is possible. We do.

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People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.

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Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

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For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

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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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The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

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Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

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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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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

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We intend to conduct our business in a way that not only meets but exceeds the expectations of our customers, business partners, shareholders, and creditors, as well as the communities in which we operate and society at large.

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It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.

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A country of a thousand war-chariots cannot be administered unless the ruler attends strictly to business, punctually observes his promises, is economical in expenditure, loves the people, and uses the labor of the peasantry only at the proper times of year.

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A man is known by the company he organizes.

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Hard work does not go unnoticed, and someday the rewards will follow.

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