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If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich.

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We set no volume goals in our insurance business generally-and certainly not in reinsurance-as virtually any volume can be achieved if profitability standards are ignored.

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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've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous.

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It's a big mistake to try and mislead people. They will turn around.

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You can't make a good deal with a bad person.

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My father was the best person i've ever known.

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The best thing I did was choose the right heroes.

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Basically, the single-most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power.

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I have this complicated procedure I go through every morning, which is to look in the mirror and decide what I'm going to do. And I feel at that point, everybody's had their say.

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They [Goverment] take from the woman who comes in and takes the wastebaskets out.

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It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes.

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Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.

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Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch. And last week the Senate handed the bill to the wrong party... the poor and middle class.

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Getting fired can produce a particularly bountiful payday for a CEO. Indeed, he can 'earn' more in that single day, while cleaning out his desk, than an American worker earns in a lifetime of cleaning toilets. Forget the old maxim about nothing succeeding like success: Today, in the executive suite, the all-too-prevalent rule is that nothing succeeds like failure.

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Banking is very good business if you don't do anything dumb.

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We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

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Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections.

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An investor will succeed by coupling good business judgment with an ability to insulate his thoughts and behavior from the super-contagious emotions that swirl about the marketplace.

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It makes a difference who the treasury secretary is.

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