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If you want a government that's going to do the things we ask our government to do, you've got to get it from somebody.

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To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics.

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The worst sort of business is one that grows rapidly, requires significant capital to engender the growth, and then earns little or no money. Think airlines. Here a durable competitive advantage has proven elusive ever since the days of the Wright Brothers. Indeed, if a farsighted capitalist had been present at Kitty Hawk, he would have done his successors a huge favor by shooting Orville down.

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If you're extremely rich, and you have got children, my theory was, you give them enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing.

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I do not believe in inheriting your position in society based on which womb you come from... I think a rich person should leave his children enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing.

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The best way in my view is to just buy a low-cost index fund and keep buying it regularly over time, because you'll be buying into a wonderful industry, which in effect is all of American industry... People ought to sit back and relax and keep accumulating over time.

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There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

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I did not think I would see the day when, you know, an AIG would not be able to have its checks clear.

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Returns decrease as motion increases.

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

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We don't get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we'll wait, we'll wait indefinitely.

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So some guy may know how to make money in cocoa beans, but I don't so I just let him have that. But it's got to be something I understand. It's got to be a business with fundamentally good economics. It's got to be a management that I like and trust and admire. And it's got to be a price that makes sense.

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You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or whatever it may be. And if it can’t stand applying pencil to paper, you’d better think it through some more. And if you can’t write an intelligent answer to those questions, don’t do it.

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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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It's almost impossible to overpay the truly extraordinary CEO... but the species is rare.

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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

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It will be good for us in the long run, and I mean there are, you know, six and a half billion people in this world. And it's great for 300 million to keep enjoying more and more property, but I think it's terrific if, you know, the remainder do.

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Knowing what to leave out is just as important as knowing what to focus on.

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

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

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