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It's nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don't want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it's a little like saving sex for your old age.

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If you want to soar like an eagle in life, you can't be flocking with the turkeys.

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When Berkshire Hathaway laid out three billion dollars for GE today, we didn't spend it, we invested it. When the Federal government buys the mortgages, they're not spending it, they're investing it. Now, they're investing it in distress type assets but they're buying them at distress prices if they buy them at market. It's the kind of stuff I love to do. I just don't have 700 million. Maybe we could go in it together.

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The stock market is a wonderfully efficient mechanism for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient.

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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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The key to success is emotional stability.

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Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.

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If knowing history made you rich, librarians would be billionaires.

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You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.

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If you were at Lehman, the same thing happened. If you were at AIG, the shareholders are getting creamed on these things. And those shareholders are not just a bunch of big shots in Wall Street. Those are pension funds, and those are investors all over the country. I wouldn't worry too much about that. Justice won't be perfect on it.

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Interest rates are to asset prices what gravity is to the apple. When there are low interest rates, there is a very low gravitational pull on asset prices.

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The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair.

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At this point, when treasury bills, seven day treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent, it's not because people want to earn 1/20th of one percent, it's because they trust the fact the treasury will give it back to them next week.

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Market prices for stocks fluctuate at great amplitudes around intrinsic value but, over the long term, intrinsic value is virtually always reflected at some point in market price.

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Beware [of] the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns.

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OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched.

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In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.

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A bull market is like sex. It feels best just before it ends.

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I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.

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If I were the treasury secretary or head of the Fed, you know, I would try to scare the hell the out of the private sector and say, you better save this because you're going down with the ship.

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