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I've never been very fully employed either.

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Many stock options in the corporate world have worked in exactly that fashion: they have gained in value simply because management retained earnings, not because it did well with the capital in its hands.

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Buy stocks like you buy your groceries, not like you buy your perfume.

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I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's a fantastic brand loyalty.

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In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard.

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There's not many businesses where someone can come in and offer to cut the price in half and somebody doesn't think about shifting. But that's the nature of the ratings business.

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The good thing is, we have household formation in this country.

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In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to 'model' rather than to 'market.'

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I mean you know at midnight everything is going to turn to pumpkins and mice; right? But if the evening goes along, I mean, you know, the guys look better all the time, the music sounds better, it's more and more fun, you think why the hell should I leave at quarter of 12. I'll leave at two minutes to 12. But the trouble is, there are no clocks on the wall. And everybody thinks they're going to leave at two minutes to 12.

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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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Money will always flow toward opportunity, and there is an abundance of that in America.

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That's the reality of what they're going to sell them to the Treasury for.

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The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

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You pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus.

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You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life.

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We say we are trying to buy into businesses with excellent economics, run by honest and able people at a decent price. We buy very few securities, so we look at it as "focused" investing.

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No formula in finance tells you that the moat is 28 feet wide and 16 feet deep. That's what drives the academics crazy. They can compute standard deviations and betas, but they can't understand moats.

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Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

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If this is a war, my side has the nuclear bomb. We have K Street. We have Wall Street. Debbie doesn't have anybody. I want a government that is responsive to the people who got the short straw in life.

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Credit worthiness is like virginity, it can be preserved but not restored very easily, so it is crazy to play around with it.

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