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The same things happen to quite an extent around the globe. I mean, the European banks were doing what the American banks were.

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Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.

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There is no substitute for a local newspaper that is doing its job.

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If some institution wants to sell you a billion dollars worth of mortgages, they might have to sell 100 million in the market, and then you'll buy the other 900 million on the same terms. Now, the very fact that this has been authorized or will be authorized, I hope, will firm up the market to some degree. And that's fine. But you don't want to have artificial prices being paid.

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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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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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A CEO's behavior has a huge impact on managers down the line.

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We want to use cash. The reason we haven't used our cash two years ago, we just didn't find things that were that attractive. But when people talk about cash being king, it's not king if it just sits there and never does anything. There are times when cash buys more than other times, and this is one of the other times when it buys a fair amount more, so we use it.

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Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing.

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We do not have, nor have had, and never will have an opinion about where the stock market, interest rates, or business activity will be a year from now.

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You should invest like a Catholic marries: for life.

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Buy a business, don't rent stocks.

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It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

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House prices just soared beyond - beyond reason in many places and they got financed in silly ways, and people lied about loans, all kinds of accesses entered into it. But that is what - that is the single biggest cause of why we're here.

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You can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is and he's doing these things and he's getting rich.

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When they get their ego involved, people do things they shouldn't do.

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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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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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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

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When I take a look at a company's annual report, if I don't understand it, they don't want me to understand it.

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