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I would say that an RFC-like thing might make sense. I probably would do it myself. But I don't think trying to combine that with what's going through now, I think what is needed now is liquidity.

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Our goal is to find an outstanding business at a sensible price, not a mediocre business at a bargain price.

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We still find very few [stocks] that even mildly interest us. That dismal fact is testimony to the insanity of valuations reached during The Great Bubble. Unfortunately, the hangover may prove to be proportional to the binge.

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If you don't make mistakes you can't make decisions.

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You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you.

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I think it will get moving faster. I mean once you get it off the - once credit flows - now the recession is going to get worse.

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If you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun.

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We make investment decisions based on our evaluation of the most profitable combination of probabilities.

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I view derivatives as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system.

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Just look at that Forbes 400. Takes a billion three to get on the Forbes 400 this year. And the aggregate wealth is just staggering. And those people are paying less percentage of their total income to the federal government than their receptionists are. [...] I'll bet a million dollars against any member of the Forbes 400 who challenges - me that the average for the Forbes 400 will be less than the average of their receptionists.

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Having first rate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom.

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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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I mean [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt didn't - you know, when he came in, he didn't print any money.

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Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

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Would you rather be the world's greatest lover, but have everyone think you're the world's worst lover? Or would you rather be the world's worst lover but have everyone think you're the world's greatest lover? Now, that's an interesting question.

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If I were the treasury secretary or head of the Fed, you know, I would try to scare the hell the out of the private sector and say, you better save this because you're going down with the ship.

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Never test the depth of river with both the feet.

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We always see shifts in employment. If you think about it, if you go back to 1800, it took 80 percent of the labor force to produce enough food for the country. Now it takes less than 3 percent. Well, the truth is that market systems move people around.

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Observing that the market was FREQUENTLY efficient, EMT Adherents went on to conclude incorrectly that it was ALWAYS efficient. The difference between these propositions is night and day.

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Investment ideas, like women are often more exciting than punctual.

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