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It's a big mistake to try and mislead people. They will turn around.

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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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More investment sins are probably committed by otherwise quite intelligent people because of "tax considerations" than from any other cause. One of my friends-a noted West Coast philosopher-maintains that a majority of life's errors are caused by forgetting what one is really trying to do. This is certainly the case when an emotionally supercharged element like taxes enters the picture (I have another friend-a noted East Coast philosopher who says it isn't the lack of representation he minds-it's the taxation).

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If you cannot control your emotions, you cannot control your money.

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If AIG had tried to unwind their derivatives books. I don't know. It would have hit every institution in the world.

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I would say that life at 84, I am having as much fun as I've ever had in my life. I mean I get to do what I love every day with the people I love-and it just doesn't get any better than that.

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Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages.

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The single most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power.

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At this point, when treasury bills, seven day treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent, it's not because people want to earn 1/20th of one percent, it's because they trust the fact the treasury will give it back to them next week.

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I have a wonderful family. I have a job that I love and wonderful people who help me with it. It can't get any better than that.

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Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper for your friends and family to see.

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People who watch their weight, golf scores, and fuel bills seem to shun quantitative evaluation of their investment management skills although it involves the most important client in the world-themselves.

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

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You don't ever ask a barber whether you need a haircut.

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I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone - not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent in 1976-77 - shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain.

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I don't want to be on the other side of the table from the customer. I was never selling anything that I didn't believe in myself or use myself.

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The (stock) market is there only as a reference point to see if anybody is offering to do anything foolish. When we invest in stocks, we invest in businesses.

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

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A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials. Someone is enjoying shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

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It isn't given to man to be able to run a financial institution where different interest-rate scenarios will prevail on all of that so as to produce kind of smooth, regular earnings from a very large base to start with.

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