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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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Truly conservative actions arise from intelligent hypotheses, correct facts and sound reasoning.

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He must never forget Charlie's plea: Tell me where I'm going to die, so I'll never go there.

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If you're an investor, you're looking on what the asset is going to do, if you're a speculator, you're commonly focusing on what the price of the object is going to do, and that's not our game.

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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 have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.

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Investment must be rational; if you can't understand it, don't do it.

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It's easy to identify many investment managers with great recent records. But past results, though important, do not suffice when prospective performance is being judged. How the record has been achieved is crucial.

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I know that Congress will do the right thing.

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The best education you can get is investing in yourself, and that doesn't mean college or university.

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I've learned mainly by reading myself. So I don't think I have any original ideas. Certainly, I talk about reading Graham. I've read Phil Fisher. So I've gotten a lot of my ideas from reading. You can learn a lot from other people. In fact, I think if you learn basically from other people, you don't have to get too many new ideas on your own. You can just apply the best of what you see.

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We've seen what can be accomplished when we use 50% of our human capacity. If you visualize what 100% can do, you'll join me as an unbridled optimist about America's future.

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The plan itself is opportunism. There is no plan before that.

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I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

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If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential.

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I've seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage -- leverage being borrowed money. You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing.

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I never buy anything unless I can fill out on a piece of paper my reasons. I may be wrong, but I would know the answer to that ...I'm paying $32 billion today for the Coca Cola Company because... If you can't answer that question, you shouldn't buy it. If you can answer that question, and you do it a few times, you'll make a lot of money.

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I mean the truth is, I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate that I've ever paid in my life.

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I look for businesses in which I think I can predict what they're going to look like in ten to fifteen years time. Take Wrigley's chewing gum. I don't think the internet is going to change how people chew gum.

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Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless.

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