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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.

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

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I am not in the business of predicting general stock market of business fluctuations. If you think I can do this, or think it is essential to an investment program, you should not be in the partnership.

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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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In my view, [the trade deficit] will create political turmoil at some point...Pretty soon, I think there will be a big adjustment.

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Equities will do well over time - you just have to avoid getting excited when other people are getting excited.

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Derivatives are like sex. It's not who we're sleeping with, it's who they're sleeping with that's the problem.

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Two rules: 1. Preserve the principal 2. When in doubt, see Rule #1.

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We try to exert a Ted Williams kind of discipline. In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved the strike zone into 77 cells, each the size of a baseball. Swinging only at balls in his "best" cell, he knew, would allow him to bat .400; reaching for balls in his "worst" spot, the low outside corner of the strike zone, would reduce him to .230. In other words, waiting for the fat pitch would mean a trip to the Hall of Fame; swinging indiscriminately would mean a ticket to the minors.

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When we went crazy, and we did go crazy on residential real estate, it set things in motion that just - the dominoes started toppling.

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Activity is the enemy of investment returns.

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I was lucky enough to be born in a time and place where society values my talent, and gave me a good education to develop that talent, and set up the laws and the finanical system to let me do what I love doing-and make a lot of money doing it. The least I can do is help pay for all that.

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The single most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power.

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As an investor with small capital, one should prefer businesses that have high returns on capital and that require little incremental investment to grow.

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You can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is and he's doing these things and he's getting rich.

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In an inflationary world, a toll bridge (like company) would be a great thing to own because you've laid out the capital costs. You built it in old dollars and you don't have to keep replacing it.

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Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them.

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The Fed is the greatest hedge fund in history.

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Trust is like the air we breathe--when it's present, nobody really notices; when it's absent, everybody notices.

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I have an 800 freephone number now that I call if I get the urge to buy an airline stock. I call at two in the morning and I say: "My name is Warren and I'm an aeroholic." And then they talk me down.

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