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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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When a management with reputation for brilliance gets hooked up with a business with a reputation for bad economics, it's the reputation of the business that remains intact.

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The greatest investment a young person can make is in their own education, in their own mind. Because money comes and goes. Relationships come and go. But what you learn once stays with you forever.

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

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While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks.

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Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: "Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth".

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My rather puritanical view is that any investment manager, whether operating as broker, investment counselor of a trust department, investment company, etc., should be willing to state unequivocally what he is going to attempt to accomplish and how he proposes to measure the extent to which he gets the job done.

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Never test the depth of river with both the feet.

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I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can't be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they're not getting some other matter.

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I always say that in investing you want to buy stock in a company that has a business that's so good that an idiot can run it, because sooner or later one will. We have a country like that.

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It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

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We do not have, nor have had, and never will have an opinion about where the stock market, interest rates, or business activity will be a year from now.

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Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

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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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There's not many businesses where someone can come in and offer to cut the price in half and somebody doesn't think about shifting. But that's the nature of the ratings business.

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If you can't read the scoreboard. You don't know the score. If you don't know the score, you can't tell the winners from the losers.

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To win, the first thing you have to do is not lose.

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It is more important to say "no" to an opportunity, than to say "yes".

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Every day that goes by, I mean, if you don't react to Pearl Harbor for a week or two weeks or three weeks, you're behind in the war that you otherwise would have fought.

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Investors should be skeptical of history-based models. Constructed by a nerdy-sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the like, these models tend to look impressive. Too often, though, investors forget to examine the assumptions behind the models. Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

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