Warren Buffett Quotes, Government Quotes, Years Quotes

[The U.S. Treasury] can borrow basically unlimited amounts. They can stay there for years and years. These assets will be worth more money over time. So when Merrill Lynch sells a bunch of mortgage-related assets at 22 cents on the dollar like they did a month or so ago, the buyer goes - is going to make money, and he's going to make a lot more money if it happens to be an institution like the U.S. government which has very, very cheap borrowing costs.

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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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My favorite time frame for holding a stock is forever.

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If you can't read the scoreboard. You don't know the score. If you don't know the score, you can't tell the winners from the losers.

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Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose.

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

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I'm the luckiest guy in the world in terms of what I do for a living. No one can tell me to do things I don't believe in or things I think are stupid.

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I wouldn’t mind going to jail if I had three cellmates who played bridge

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Invest in as much of yourself as you can, you are your own biggest asset by far.

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

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Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

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Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change.

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You can't make a good deal with a bad person.

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If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

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When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.

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America should stand for more than just wealth.

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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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As far as you are concerned, the stock market does not exist. Ignore it.

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Focus alone is not enough; putting in the time to commit is also crucial to achieve success.

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I mean the truth is, I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate that I've ever paid in my life.

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