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

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We try to exert a Ted Williams kind of discipline. In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved the strike zone into 77 cells, each the size of a baseball. Swinging only at balls in his "best" cell, he knew, would allow him to bat .400; reaching for balls in his "worst" spot, the low outside corner of the strike zone, would reduce him to .230. In other words, waiting for the fat pitch would mean a trip to the Hall of Fame; swinging indiscriminately would mean a ticket to the minors.

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We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

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... the best way to own common stocks is through an index fund.

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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure understated.

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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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Confidence is key. You're not going to put your money - you're not going to leave your money with me unless you're confident I'm going to give it back to you.

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If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes. Put together a portfolio of companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so also will the portfolio's market value.

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When they get their ego involved, people do things they shouldn't do.

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My idea of a group decision is to look in the mirror.

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This country is going - be living better ten years from now than it is now. It will be living better in 20 years from now than ten years from now. The ingredients that made this country, you know, the miracle of the world - I mean we had a seven for one improvement in the average American standard of living in the 20th century.

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In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.

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Never invest in a business you don't understand.

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The typical large company has a compensation committee, They don't look for Dobermans on that committee, they look for chihuahuas.

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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

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Buy stocks like you buy your groceries, not like you buy your perfume.

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Tell me your heroes and I'll tell you how your life will end up

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I want to be able to explain my mistakes. This means I do only the things I completely understand.

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I knew a lot about what I did when I was 20. I had read a lot, and I aspired to learn everything I could about the subject.

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Banking is very good business if you don't do anything dumb.

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