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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

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[People] have seen the credit market seize up. They're worried about money market funds, although the latest proposition from government should take care of that. They've seen eight percent of the bank deposits in the United States get moved very skillfully, I might say, within the last couple of weeks from institutions that they thought were fine a few months ago to other institutions. They are not wrong to be worried.

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Mr. Market is kind of a drunken psycho. Some days he gets very enthused, some days he gets very depressed. And when he get really enthused you sell to him, and if he gets depressed, you buy from him. There's no moral taint attached to that.

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Inactivity strikes us as intelligent behavior.

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If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential.

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I would push purchasing power - you push out $1,000 of purchasing to those people, it's going to get - it's going to get spent. And it needs to be spent. They need it. And it should come, to some extent, from guys like me.

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Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.

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Do what you love and work for whom you admire the most, and you've given yourself the best chance in life you can.

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The best way in my view is to just buy a low-cost index fund and keep buying it regularly over time, because you'll be buying into a wonderful industry, which in effect is all of American industry... People ought to sit back and relax and keep accumulating over time.

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I never invest in anything that I don't understand.

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If knowing history made you rich, librarians would be billionaires.

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Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections.

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Either they're trying to con you or they're trying to con themselves.

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In our view, though, investment students need only two well-taught courses-How to Value a Business, and How to Think about Market Prices. Your goal as an investor should simply be to purchase, at a rational price, a part interest in an easily-understandable business who's earnings are virtually certain to be materially higher five, ten and twenty years from now.

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

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I think I could make you fifty percent a year on one million dollars. No, I know I could. I guarantee that.

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It's quite clear that stocks are cheaper than bonds. I can't imagine anybody having bonds in their portfolio when they can own equities, a diversified group of equities. But people do because they, the lack of confidence. But that's what makes for the attractive prices. If they had their confidence back, they wouldn't be selling at these prices. And believe me, it will come back over time.

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The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again.

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I have no idea on timing. It’s easier to tell what will happen than when it will happen. I would say that what is going on in terms of trade policy is going to have very important consequences.

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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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