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I think that actually people in my situation should be paying more tax.

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Ben's Mr. Market allegory may seem out-of-date in today's investment world, in which most professionals and academicians talk of efficient markets, dynamic hedging and betas. Their interest in such matters is understandable, since techniques shrouded in mystery clearly have value to the purveyor of investment advice. After all, what witch doctor has ever achieved fame and fortune by simply advising 'Take two aspirins'?

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The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.

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When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

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All I have to do is think and not be influenced by others.

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The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself... The more you learn, the more you'll earn.

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Would you rather be the world's greatest lover, but have everyone think you're the world's worst lover? Or would you rather be the world's worst lover but have everyone think you're the world's greatest lover? Now, that's an interesting question.

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The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.

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So some guy may know how to make money in cocoa beans, but I don't so I just let him have that. But it's got to be something I understand. It's got to be a business with fundamentally good economics. It's got to be a management that I like and trust and admire. And it's got to be a price that makes sense.

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If you're extremely rich, and you have got children, my theory was, you give them enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing.

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If I subscribed to the efficient market theory I would still be delivering papers

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I mean, you can explain the fact that these are depressed prices, you know. We think these assets are going to be worth a lot more. And I think that case can be made in certain situations. But I think to just say, you know, we're going to say a dollar of cash is worth $2 all of a sudden, it isn't worth $2. It's worth a dollar today.

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It's the deleveraging that's going on right now that has caused the credit crisis.

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Time is the friend of the wonderful business. It's the enemy of the lousy business. If you're in a lousy business for a long time, you're going to get a lousy result, even if you buy it cheap. If you're in a wonderful business for a long time, even if you pay a little too much going in, you're going to get a wonderful result if you stay in a long time.

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Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them.

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Enjoy your work and work for whom you admire.

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The secret to happiness is having low expectations.

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Sound investing can make you very wealthy if you're not in too big a hurry

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We make investment decisions based on our evaluation of the most profitable combination of probabilities.

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If you gave me the choice of being CEO of General Electric or IBM or General Motors, you name it, or delivering papers, I would deliver papers. I would. I enjoyed doing that. I can think about what I want to think. I don't have to do anything I don't want to do.

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