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I never buy anything unless I can fill out on a piece of paper my reasons. I may be wrong, but I would know the answer to that ...I'm paying $32 billion today for the Coca Cola Company because... If you can't answer that question, you shouldn't buy it. If you can answer that question, and you do it a few times, you'll make a lot of money.

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I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.

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Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

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I don't think it would be crazy to have a model or an entity model on the Reconstruction Finance Corp.

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Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

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It is obvious that the performance of a stock last year or last month is no reason, per se, to either own it or to not own it now. It is obvious that an inability to "get even" in a security that has declined is of no importance. It is obvious that the inner warm glow that results from having held a winner last year is of no importance in making a decision as to whether it belongs in an optimum portfolio this year.

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Take the probability of loss times the amount of possible loss from the probability of gain times the amount of possible gain. That is what we're trying to do. It's imperfect, but that's what it's all about.

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Investment ideas, like women are often more exciting than punctual.

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Possessing a powerful worldwide brand is essential for sustained success.

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Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

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It isn't given to man to be able to run a financial institution where different interest-rate scenarios will prevail on all of that so as to produce kind of smooth, regular earnings from a very large base to start with.

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When the president of the United States goes out at, you know, 8:00 o'clock in the morning and then his own party votes gets him 2 to 1 in the house, you know that somehow a message isn't getting out. It takes real leadership.

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All but a few of the organizations do not specifically promise to deliver superior investment performance although it is perhaps not unreasonable for the public to draw such an inference from their advertised emphasis on professional management.

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I would say that life at 84, I am having as much fun as I've ever had in my life. I mean I get to do what I love every day with the people I love-and it just doesn't get any better than that.

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If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.

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Mr. Market is your servant, not your guide.

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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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Lethargy, bordering on sloth should remain the cornerstone of an investment style.

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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

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I have always cautioned partners that I considered three years a minimum in determining whether we were "performing".

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