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If you hit a hole in one every hole, you wouldn’t play golf for very long.

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You could be somewhere where the mail was delayed three weeks and do just fine investing.

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It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.

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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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If you gave me the choice of being CEO of General Electric or IBM or General Motors, you name it, or delivering papers, I would deliver papers. I would. I enjoyed doing that. I can think about what I want to think. I don't have to do anything I don't want to do.

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I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.

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I think that actually people in my situation should be paying more tax.

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The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly.

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Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.

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

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On his Giving Pledge philanthropy: The way I got the message out was to get a copy of FORBES, look down that 400 list and start making phone calls! Bill and Melinda [Gates] did the same thing. So keep publishing the list so I can milk it.

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People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea Bubble, they went crazy internet stocks, they went crazy with the uranium stocks back when I was first getting started.

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That goes back to 1932, although it was really implemented in '33 under Jesse Jones, and it invested in mostly banks initially and preferred stock and that sort of thing. So there are two things needed in the system, the one that's needed overwhelmingly is liquidity. I mean, when people are trying to [unintelligible], there has to be somebody there to buy.

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I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.

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Bull markets and Bear markets can obscure mathematical laws, they cannot repeal them.

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I mean, you know, you're not going to change the human animal. And the human animal really doesn't get a lot smarter.

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The greatest Enemies of the Equity investor are Expenses and Emotions.

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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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When people talk about cash being king, it's not king if it just sits there and never does anything.

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Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.

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