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The stock market is a wonderfully efficient mechanism for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient.

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Resolution Trust Company was set up to liquidate a bunch of assets that the government had inherited because the savings and loans went broke.

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An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.

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The capital gains tax is 15 percent now. So I sit there in my office and I make a lot of money by capital gains, and I pay 15 percent, and I pay no payroll tax on it.

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Cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.

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The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient.

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In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that its paddling skills have caused it to rise in the world. A right-thinking duck would instead compare its position after the downpour to that of the other ducks on the pond.

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SUPPOSE that an investor you admire and trust comes to you with an investment idea. This is a good one, he says enthusiastically. I'm in it, and I think you should be, too.

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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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Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper for your friends and family to see.

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Nevertheless, as circumstances presently appear, I feel substantially greater size is more likely to harm future results than to help them. This might not be true for my own personal results, but it is likely to be true for your results.

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We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet.

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When bills come due, only cash is legal tender. Don't leave home without it.

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Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.

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We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'

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When you build a bridge, you insist that it can carry 30,000 pounds, but you only drive 10,000-pound trucks across it. And that same principle works in investing.

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The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don’t have to swing at everything – you can wait for your pitch.

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If you don't make mistakes you can't make decisions.

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I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

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... not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

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