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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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We've been in a recession, by any common sense definition, because if you look at the American public, they've got 20 billion - 20 trillion, I should say, worth of residential homes.

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In economics, you always want to ask 'And then what?'

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People who watch their weight, golf scores, and fuel bills seem to shun quantitative evaluation of their investment management skills although it involves the most important client in the world-themselves.

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I read annual reports of the company I'm looking at and I read the annual reports of the competitors - that is the main source of material.

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That's the reality of what they're going to sell them to the Treasury for.

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Confidence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen. When you have it, you don't even think about it. It's indispensable. You can go years without thinking about it. When it's gone for five minutes, it's the only thing to think about.

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You should invest like a Catholic marries: for life.

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In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.

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I'm always interested in understanding the math of things and understanding as much as I can about all aspects of business. And what I learn today may be useful to me two years from now. That's really the wonderful thing about investments is your knowledge is cumulative.

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Never lie under any circumstances.

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The dominant factors affecting control valuations are earning power (past and prospective) and asset values.

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The secret to happiness is having low expectations.

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If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich.

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

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I think any time you couple the term "Wall Street" with "bailout" or something like that, you know - I don't like what's going on in Wall Street.

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I mean, you know, you're not going to change the human animal. And the human animal really doesn't get a lot smarter.

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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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The banking business is no favorite of ours. When assets are twenty times equity - a common ratio in this industry - mistakes that involve only a small portion of assets can destroy a major portion of equity. And mistakes have been the rule rather than the exception at many major banks.

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It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.

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