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To win, the first thing you have to do is not lose.

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If I knew where I was going to want to live the next five or 10 years I would buy a home and I'd finance it with a 30-year mortgage... It's a terrific deal.

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Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth.

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Well, I think the biggest mistake is not learning the habits of saving properly early. Because saving is a habit. And then, trying to get rich quick. It's pretty easy to get well-to-do slowly. But it's not easy to get rich quick.

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We do not have, nor have had, and never will have an opinion about where the stock market, interest rates, or business activity will be a year from now.

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If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.

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We set no volume goals in our insurance business generally-and certainly not in reinsurance-as virtually any volume can be achieved if profitability standards are ignored.

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We rarely use much debt and, when we do, we attempt to structure it on a long-term fixed rate basis. We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet. This conservatism has penalized our results but it is the only behavior that leaves us comfortable, considering our fiduciary obligations to policyholders, depositors, lenders and the many equity holders who have committed unusually large portions of their net worth to our care.

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Investment ideas, like women are often more exciting than punctual.

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I would say the biggest single cause was we had an incredible residential real estate bubble.

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Knowing the edge of your competency is important. If you think you know more than you do, you will get in trouble.

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A pack of lemmings looks like a group of rugged individualists compared with Wall Street when it gets a concept in its teeth.

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Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are.

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In the financial markets I find it easy to predict what will happen and very difficult to predict when it will happen. I think that things were clear during the bubble as to what would happen eventually.

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I read annual reports of the company I'm looking at and I read the annual reports of the competitors - that is the main source of material.

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If you're in a card game and you can't figure out who the patsy is, you're it.

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I don't want to be on the other side of the table from the customer. I was never selling anything that I didn't believe in myself or use myself.

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Let only individuals contribute - with sensible limits per election. Otherwise, we are well on our way to ensuring that a government of the moneyed, by the moneyed, and for the moneyed shall not perish from the earth.

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When I take a look at a company's annual report, if I don't understand it, they don't want me to understand it.

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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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