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I really like my life. I've arranged my life so that I can do what I want.

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I bought my first stock in 1942, in the summer of '42. I was 11 years old. And so 75 years have gone by. And I have never known what the market's going to do the next day. And that's not my game. My game is to decide whether I'm in the right economy, which America's definitely been ever since that time. The Dow has gone from 100 to 21,000 during that time. And no matter what the headlines say, or terrible things are happening - we were losing the war in the Pacific when I first bought stocks.

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I've seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage -- leverage being borrowed money. You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing.

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What's going to happen - things we're doing are going to have some inflationary consequences.

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We would do best in a market where everyone acted foolishly.

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What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact.

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Businesses always have opportunities to improve service, product lines, manufacturing techniques, and the like, and obviously these opportunities should be seized. But a business that constantly encounters major change also encounters many chances for major error

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When they get their ego involved, people do things they shouldn't do.

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I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

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We all make mistakes. If you can't make mistakes, you can't make decisions. I've made a lot bigger mistakes myself.

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All day you wait for the pitch you like; then when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.

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People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional.

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The optimum portfolio depends on the various expectations of choices available and the degree of variance in performance which is tolerable. The greater the number of selections, the less will be the average year-to-year variation in actual versus expected results. Also, the lower will be the expected results, assuming different choices have different expectations of performance.

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Buy a business, don't rent stocks.

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There are three kinds of people: 1. Innovators. 2. Imitators. 3. Idiots.

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You don't have to be a genius to invest well

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In a difficult business, no sooner is one problem solved than another surfaces - never is there just one cockroach in the kitchen.

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You get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots.

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The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the passive group - the "know-nothings" - must win.

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You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you.

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