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... the best way to own common stocks is through an index fund.

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If you want a government that's going to do the things we ask our government to do, you've got to get it from somebody.

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I don't want to be on the other side of the table from the customer. I was never selling anything that I didn't believe in myself or use myself.

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If you don't know jewelry, know the jeweler.

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I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

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I have three boxes on my desk: In, Out, and Too Hard.

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If you do smart things and use leverage and do one wrong thing along the way, it could wipe you out, because anything times zero is zero. But it's reinforcing when the people around you are doing it successfully, you're doing it successfully, and it's a lot like Cinderella at the ball.

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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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This country is going - be living better ten years from now than it is now. It will be living better in 20 years from now than ten years from now. The ingredients that made this country, you know, the miracle of the world - I mean we had a seven for one improvement in the average American standard of living in the 20th century.

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Turnarounds seldom turn.

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Your money can be inflated away but your knowledge and talent cannot.

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If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential.

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We can afford to lose money - even a lot of money. But we can't afford to lose reputation - even a shred of reputation.

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In the end we must have people to match our principles, not the reverse.

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It's very important that the determination of the US Congress to do what is is needed be made evident this week and by the actions of most of the members. I mean, you're not going to get total assent.

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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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What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.

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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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There are three important principles to Graham's approach. [The first is to look at stocks as fractional shares of a business, which] gives you an entirely different view than most people who are in the market. [The second principle is the margin-of-safety concept, which] gives you the competitive advantage. [The third is having a true investor's attitude toward the stock market, which] if you have that attitude, you start out ahead of 99 percent of all the people who are operating in the stock market - it's an enormous advantage.

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But 300 million Americans, their lending institutions, their government, their media, all believed that house prices were going to go up consistently. And that got billed into a $20 trillion residential home market. Lending was done based on it, and everybody did a lot of foolish things.

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