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When we went crazy, and we did go crazy on residential real estate, it set things in motion that just - the dominoes started toppling.

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On his Giving Pledge philanthropy: The way I got the message out was to get a copy of FORBES, look down that 400 list and start making phone calls! Bill and Melinda [Gates] did the same thing. So keep publishing the list so I can milk it.

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I don't really think that, as a society, we [americans] want to confer blessings on generation after generation who contribute nothing to society, simply because somebody in the far distant past happened to amass a great sum of wealth.

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Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.

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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.

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The market system rewards me outlandishly for what I do, but that doesn't mean I'm any more deserving of a good life than a teacher or a doctor or someone who fights in Afghanistan.

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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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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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We've got more productive capacity now than we ever have.

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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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it's a good idea to review past mistakes before committing new ones.

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I think the rest of the country should be paying less, the 95 percent that [Barack] Obama talks about or maybe even a little higher than that.

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Part of making good decisions in business is recognizing the poor decisions you've made and why they were poor. I've made lots of mistakes. I'm going to make more. It's the name of the game. You don't want to expect perfection in yourself. You want to strive to do your best. It's too demanding to expect perfection in yourself.

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I'll take the deal, whatever you want to do.

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It irritates the hell out of me but you can't buy love.

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If you expect to continue to purchase stocks throughout your life, you should welcome price declines as a way to add stocks more cheaply to your portfolio.

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I will do anything that is basically covered by the law to reduce Berkshire's tax rate. For example, on wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That's the only reason to build them. They don't make sense without the tax credit.

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A newspaper that reduces its coverage of the news important to its community is certain to reduce its readership as well

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Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing so wide diversification is only required when investors are ignorant. You only have to do a very few things in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

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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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