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Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.

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If you look at the Forbes 400, they are paying a lower rate, accounting payroll taxes, than their secretary or - whomever around their office.

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The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has.

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Generally, we have translated greater output in the few hours of work per week over the last century. And that's a good trend of the future. But we do have to have a system that, as output of goods and services keeps increasing per capita, that it takes care of the people who are willing to work and really are not getting by very well with a family on a 40-hour week.

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That which is not worth doing at all is not worth doing well.

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Investors should remember that their scorecard is not computed using Olympic-diving methods: Degree-of-difficulty doesn't count. If you are right about a business whose value is largely dependent on a single key factor that is both easy to understand and enduring, the payoff is the same as if you had correctly analyzed an investment alternative characterized by many constantly shifting and complex variables.

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I'm happy when I can spend every day doing the things that I like to do. That's my luxury.

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But, surprise - none of these blockbuster events made the slightest dent in Ben Graham's investment principles. Nor did they render unsound the negotiated purchases of fine businesses at sensible prices. Imagine the cost to us, then, if we had let a fear of unknowns cause us to defer or alter the deployment of capital. Indeed, we have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.

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Never test the depth of river with both the feet.

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The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.

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The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does.

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If you've got the power to raise prices without losing business to a competitor, you've got a very good business. And if you have to have a prayer session before raising the price by a tenth of a cent, then you've got a terrible business. I've been in both, and I know the difference.

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During inflation, Goodwill is the gift that keeps on giving.

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The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

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We have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.

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The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair.

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I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out.

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I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.

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

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The latter qualification brings to mind a fellow who applied for a job and stated he had twenty years of experience-which was corrected by a former employer to read "one year's experience-twenty times.

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