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If I knew where I was going to want to live the next five or 10 years I would buy a home and I'd finance it with a 30-year mortgage... It's a terrific deal.

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A pin lies in wait for every bubble. And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons: First, many in Wall Street (a community in which quality control is not prized) will sell investors anything they will buy. Second, speculation is most dangerous when it looks easiest.

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We have embraced the 21st century by entering such cutting-edge industries as brick, carpet, insulation and paint. Try to control your excitement.

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Don't pass up something that's attractive today because you think you will find something way more attractive tomorrow.

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Larger sums may be an advantage at some cases and a disadvantage at others.

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If you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money.

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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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Having a large amount of leverage is like driving a car with a dagger on the steering wheel pointed at your heart. If you do that, you will be a better driver. There will be fewer accidents but when they happen, they will be fatal.

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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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I happen to have a talent for allocating capital. But my ability to use that talent is completely dependent on the society I was born into. If I'd been born into a tribe of hunters, this talent of mine would be pretty worthless. I can't run very fast. I'm not particularly strong. I'd probably end up as some wild animal's dinner.

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Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity. If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two.

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We really can say no in 10 seconds or so to 90%+ of all the things that come along simply because we have these filters.

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I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out.

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I think you'll have plenty of scrutiny as how the money's invested. I mean, just like the RFC. When the RFC operated, people knew which institutions they were buying preferred stock in. And it worked very well.

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A contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling.

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

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I am not worried about the country. I'm just worried about anything that gums up the potential of the country. And right now, it's pretty gummed up.

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

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To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics.

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