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A contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling.

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I don't have my diploma from the University of Nebraska hanging on my office wall, and I don't have my diploma from Columbia up there either-but I do have my Dale Carnegie graduation certificate proudly displayed.

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I learned to go into business only with people whom I like, trust, and admire.

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Most business mistakes are irreversible setbacks, but you get another chance. There are two things in life that you don't get another chance at - marrying the wrong person and what you do with your children.

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Focus on return on equity, not earnings per share.

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If you invested in a very low cost index fund - where you don't put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years -you'll do better than 90% of people who start investing at the same time.

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The optimum portfolio depends on the various expectations of choices available and the degree of variance in performance which is tolerable. The greater the number of selections, the less will be the average year-to-year variation in actual versus expected results. Also, the lower will be the expected results, assuming different choices have different expectations of performance.

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I think the biggest thing we need is to unclog the credit markets, and we may need another stimulus - if we do, it's - it should go to the lower and middle-income people.

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We rarely use much debt and, when we do, we attempt to structure it on a long-term fixed rate basis. We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet. This conservatism has penalized our results but it is the only behavior that leaves us comfortable, considering our fiduciary obligations to policyholders, depositors, lenders and the many equity holders who have committed unusually large portions of their net worth to our care.

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Buy a business, don't rent stocks.

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Do what you would do for free, having passion for what you do is the most important thing.

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Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

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The dominant factors affecting control valuations are earning power (past and prospective) and asset values.

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

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You shouldn't own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.

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Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense.

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We all make mistakes. If you can't make mistakes, you can't make decisions. I've made a lot bigger mistakes myself.

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Do not put all your eggs in one basket.

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it's a good idea to review past mistakes before committing new ones.

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Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay.

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