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When the brothel burns down, even the pretty girls have to run out.

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Your money can be inflated away but your knowledge and talent cannot.

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I just don't see anything available that gives any reasonable hope of delivering such a good year and I have no desire to grope around, hoping to 'get lucky' with other people's money. I am not attuned to this market environment, and I don't want to spoil a decent record by trying to play a game I don't understand just so I can go out a hero.

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The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair.

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I think what people understand there probably - well, they were hoping the private sector would do it [rescuing AIG ].

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I think confidence will come back.

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

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It irritates the hell out of me but you can't buy love.

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The dominant factors affecting control valuations are earning power (past and prospective) and asset values.

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I don't really think that, as a society, we [americans] want to confer blessings on generation after generation who contribute nothing to society, simply because somebody in the far distant past happened to amass a great sum of wealth.

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The capital gains tax is 15 percent now. So I sit there in my office and I make a lot of money by capital gains, and I pay 15 percent, and I pay no payroll tax on it.

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

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The trick is, when there is nothing to do, do nothing.

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People do, as long as you have markets, you'll have excesses.

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Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

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You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you.

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When a management with reputation for brilliance gets hooked up with a business with a reputation for bad economics, it's the reputation of the business that remains intact.

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After 25 years of buying and supervising a great variety of businesses, Charlie [Munger] and I have not learned how to solve difficult business problems. What we have learned is to avoid them. To the extent we have been successful, it is because we have concentrated on identifying one-foot hurdles that we could step over rather than because we acquired any ability to clear seven-footers.

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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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The most important investment you can make is in yourself... nobody can tax it or take it away from you.

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