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Mark Zuckerberg will be a hero to many young entrepreneurs 20 years from now. Bill Gates will be a hero to others, and they will look to those [people] like I read books when I was in my teens about Rockefeller or Carnegie.

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It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.

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With enough insider information and a million dollars, you can go broke in a year.

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

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Success is having people love you that you want to have love you.

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I have this complicated procedure I go through every morning, which is to look in the mirror and decide what I'm going to do. And I feel at that point, everybody's had their say.

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When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

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Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

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Cash never makes us happy, but it's better to have the money burning a hole in Berkshire's pocket than resting comfortably in someone else's.

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In the end, alchemy, whether it is metallurgical or financial, fails. A base business can not be transformed into a golden business by tricks of accounting or capital structure. The man claiming to be a financial alchemist may become rich. But gullible investors rather than business achievements will usually be the source of his wealth.

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I'm sitting with six and a half billion dollars we're going to use to close the Mars-Wrigley deal on October 6. I've got to hand over that six and a half billion on October 6. Now, I have to be very careful about who I leave it in between now and then, because they're expecting that he show up.

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I think any time you couple the term "Wall Street" with "bailout" or something like that, you know - I don't like what's going on in Wall Street.

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If I got any good ideas out of that or I think they're good ideas, I'll be glad to contribute them but the system will probably overdo some other things.

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They [Goverment] take from the woman who comes in and takes the wastebaskets out.

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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

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The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.

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I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

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If you don't feel comfortable owning something for 10 years, then don't own it for 10 minutes.

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I'm always interested in understanding the math of things and understanding as much as I can about all aspects of business. And what I learn today may be useful to me two years from now. That's really the wonderful thing about investments is your knowledge is cumulative.

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