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I know the country works extremely well. You know, but when it isn't clogged up.

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

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But, surprise - none of these blockbuster events made the slightest dent in Ben Graham's investment principles. Nor did they render unsound the negotiated purchases of fine businesses at sensible prices. Imagine the cost to us, then, if we had let a fear of unknowns cause us to defer or alter the deployment of capital. Indeed, we have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.

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Remember that the stock market is manic-depressive.

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The best thing I did was choose the right heroes.

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Turnarounds seldom turn.

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You're dealing with a lot of silly people in the marketplace; it's like a great big casino and everyone else is boozing. If you can stick with Pepsi, you should be OK.

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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

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I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

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All day you wait for the pitch you like; then when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.

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Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.

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We look for things I can understand. A lot of businesses I don't understand.

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The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has.

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Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them

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Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.

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Only those who will be sellers of equities in the near future should be happy at seeing stocks rise. Prospective purchasers should much prefer sinking prices.

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You can't buy what is popular and do well.

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Money to some extent sometimes let you be in more interesting environments. But it can't change how many people love you or how healthy you are.

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I think that they hoped the private sector would come in. And the private sector tried to come in until they saw the size of the problem. I mean, from were people on that weekend that thought they'd had a solution. And then the hole kept getting bigger and bigger. And all of a sudden became apparent that 20 billion wouldn't do it and 30 billion wouldn't do it and 40 billion wouldn't do it. So it got beyond anybody's ability to certainly to do it in a short period of time.

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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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