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Take Wrigley's Chewing Gum. I don't think the Internet is going to change how people chew gum.

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I don't want to give a lecture to this body that's out there. You know, I mean, having had the heart attack, I want to get it back functioning. And as a practical matter, I mean if you were Bear Stearns, and you were a shareholder, you know, you lost 90 to 95 percent of your money. A good many lost their jobs. They lost very cushy lives, many of them.

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I buy expensive suits - they just look cheap on me.

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Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings.

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Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.

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The greatest investment a young person can make is in their own education, in their own mind. Because money comes and goes. Relationships come and go. But what you learn once stays with you forever.

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

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In our view, though, investment students need only two well-taught courses-How to Value a Business, and How to Think about Market Prices. Your goal as an investor should simply be to purchase, at a rational price, a part interest in an easily-understandable business who's earnings are virtually certain to be materially higher five, ten and twenty years from now.

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Focus on return on equity, not earnings per share.

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I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business.

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If the world couldn't see your results, would you rather be thought of as the world's greatest investor but in reality have the world's worst record? Or be thought of as the world's worst investor when you were actually the best?

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I think you'll have plenty of scrutiny as how the money's invested. I mean, just like the RFC. When the RFC operated, people knew which institutions they were buying preferred stock in. And it worked very well.

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AIG would be doing fine today. It was one of the ten largest companies in the United States in terms of market value, over 200 billion, the most respected insurer and everything in the world.

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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

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I never try to predict the market.

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In earlier years, a lesser effort produced literally dozens of comparable opportunities. It is difficult to be objective about the causes for such diminution of one's own productivity. Three factors that seem apparent are: (1) a somewhat changed market environment; (2) our increased size; and (3) substantially more competition.

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If you look at the Forbes 400, they are paying a lower rate, accounting payroll taxes, than their secretary or - whomever around their office.

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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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If I were the treasury secretary or head of the Fed, you know, I would try to scare the hell the out of the private sector and say, you better save this because you're going down with the ship.

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Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

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