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It's better to build than to buy if you can find the right people.

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We don't read other people's opinions. We want to get the facts, and then think.

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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.

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Games are won by players who focus on the playing field -- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.

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You get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots.

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We continue to make more money when snoring than when active.

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If you want to soar like an eagle in life, you can't be flocking with the turkeys.

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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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For example: (1) As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction; (2) Just as work expands to fill available time, corporate projects or acquisitions will materialize to soak up available funds; (3) Any business craving of the leader, however foolish, will be quickly supported by detailed rate-of-return and strategic studies prepared by his troops; and (4) The behavior of peer companies, whether they are expanding, acquiring, setting executive compensation or whatever, will be mindlessly imitated.

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Wall Street makes its money on activity. You make your money on inactivity.

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Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner.

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If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

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Anyone who believes a growth rate in excess of 15% per annum over the long term is attainable should pursue a career in sales, but avoid one in mathematics.

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When you're associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn't get any better than that.

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If you want your business to survive for 100 years, you've got to make it through every single day for 100 years. It's not enough to do it 99.9% of the time.

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Things you like to do should be a hobby of yours, but things the world does should be a business of yours.

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[Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.

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The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.

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I can't promise results, but I can promise a common destiny.

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Accounting is the language of business.

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