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Enjoy your work and work for whom you admire.

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Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay. The upshot is that a mediocre-or-worse CEO - aided by his handpicked VP of human relations and a consultant from the ever-accommodating firm of Ratchet, Ratchet and Bingo - all too often receives gobs of money from an ill-designed compensation arrangement.

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I would say it's more important who the treasury secretary is than who the vice president is. If you want to have a debate here, I'd like a debate between potential treasury secretaries than the vice presidential debate.

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Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.

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If I got a chance to take one percent of the deal either way, I would make that bet.

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I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

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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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People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed.

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Stocks are the only thing that people are happy to buy when the price goes up.

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My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest.

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There are certain things that cannot be adequately explained to a virgin either by words or pictures.

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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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I mean, you may be very mad at some guy that walked away with a huge golden parachute, but that really isn't the important thing.

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I prefer liquor store robbers with hungry kids to companies that locate offshore to avoid U.S. taxes.

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Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

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You will be right, over the course of many transactions, if your hypotheses are correct, your facts are correct, and your reasoning is correct. True conservatism is only possible through knowledge and reason.

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We have embraced the 21st century by entering such cutting-edge industries as brick, carpet, insulation and paint. Try to control your excitement.

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In my opinion, the entire field of investment management, involving hundreds of billions of dollars, would be more satisfactorily conducted if everyone had a good yardstick for measurement of ability and sensibly applied it.

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Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process.

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In earlier years, a lesser effort produced literally dozens of comparable opportunities. It is difficult to be objective about the causes for such diminution of one's own productivity. Three factors that seem apparent are: (1) a somewhat changed market environment; (2) our increased size; and (3) substantially more competition.

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