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If you gave me $100 billion and said take away the soft drink leadership of Coca-Cola in the world, I'd give it back to you and say it can't be done.

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It is more important to say "no" to an opportunity, than to say "yes".

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

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You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.

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Never invest in a business you don't understand.

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Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch. And last week the Senate handed the bill to the wrong party... the poor and middle class.

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When it's raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble.

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They [Goverment] take from the woman who comes in and takes the wastebaskets out.

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Forecasts usually tell us more of the forecaster than of the forecast

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We have to live with the rest of the world. And it's a mistake, in my view. Trade has generally developed in this country. We actually export 12 or 13 percent of our GDP. It was only 5 percent in 1970. But it benefits us. It benefits the rest of the world. It doesn't benefit the steelworker maybe in Ohio. And that's the problem that has to be addressed, because when you have something that's good for society, but terribly harmful for given individuals, we have got to make sure those individuals are taken care of.

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Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them

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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 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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Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.

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I don't read economic forecasts. I don't read the funny papers.

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Most business mistakes are irreversible setbacks, but you get another chance. There are two things in life that you don't get another chance at - marrying the wrong person and what you do with your children.

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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

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I think confidence will come back.

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I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

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The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

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