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The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be

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I am not worried about the country. I'm just worried about anything that gums up the potential of the country. And right now, it's pretty gummed up.

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Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch. And last week the Senate handed the bill to the wrong party... the poor and middle class.

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If I subscribed to the efficient market theory I would still be delivering papers

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We have provided capital here with a couple of institutions recently. The Federal government did that in the '30s for the RFC and I think there could well be a proper role for government in that.

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That which is not worth doing at all is not worth doing well.

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I do not like debt and do not like to invest in companies that have too much debt, particularly long-term debt. With long-term debt, increases in interest rates can drastically affect company profits and make future cash flows less predictable.

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You're dealing with a lot of silly people in the marketplace; it's like a great big casino and everyone else is boozing. If you can stick with Pepsi, you should be OK.

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Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.

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[People] have seen the credit market seize up. They're worried about money market funds, although the latest proposition from government should take care of that. They've seen eight percent of the bank deposits in the United States get moved very skillfully, I might say, within the last couple of weeks from institutions that they thought were fine a few months ago to other institutions. They are not wrong to be worried.

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We say we are trying to buy into businesses with excellent economics, run by honest and able people at a decent price. We buy very few securities, so we look at it as "focused" investing.

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An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes.

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Does the business have favourable long term prospects?

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You don't have to be a genius to invest well

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In a difficult business, no sooner is one problem solved than another surfaces - never is there just one cockroach in the kitchen.

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Gold has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative.

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The thing to do is to keep your mind when the world around you is losing theirs.

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A bull market is like sex. It feels best just before it ends.

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We want to use cash. The reason we haven't used our cash two years ago, we just didn't find things that were that attractive. But when people talk about cash being king, it's not king if it just sits there and never does anything. There are times when cash buys more than other times, and this is one of the other times when it buys a fair amount more, so we use it.

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Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.

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