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The patient that's on the floor with the cardiac arrest is not Wall Street. It's the American economy.

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[The U.S. Treasury] can borrow basically unlimited amounts. They can stay there for years and years. These assets will be worth more money over time. So when Merrill Lynch sells a bunch of mortgage-related assets at 22 cents on the dollar like they did a month or so ago, the buyer goes - is going to make money, and he's going to make a lot more money if it happens to be an institution like the U.S. government which has very, very cheap borrowing costs.

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A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials. Someone is enjoying shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

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I've never been very fully employed either but just think of what it's like, you know, to go home with a mortgage payment you know and kids and everything else. My dad had that happen to him in the early '30s.

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To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics.

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The most dangerous distractions are the ones you love, but that don’t love you back.

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I don't think you can have a better secretary of the Treasury than Hank Paulson.

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If we start deciding, based on guesses or emotions, whether we will or won't participate in a business where we should have some long run edge, we're in trouble.

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A newspaper that reduces its coverage of the news important to its community is certain to reduce its readership as well

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I certainly have no desire to sell a good controlled business run by people I like and admire, merely to obtain a fancy price. However, specific conditions may cause the sale of one operating unit at some point.

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The latter qualification brings to mind a fellow who applied for a job and stated he had twenty years of experience-which was corrected by a former employer to read "one year's experience-twenty times.

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The only way to be loved is to be loveable, which really irritates me.

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If horses had controlled investment decisions, there would have been no auto industry.

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In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to 'model' rather than to 'market.'

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It's much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.

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Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand.

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I was lucky to have the right heroes. Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you how you'll turn out to be. The qualities of the one you admire are the traits that you, with a little practice, can make your own, and that, if practiced, will become habit forming.

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Take Wrigley's Chewing Gum. I don't think the Internet is going to change how people chew gum.

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

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I don't think it would be crazy to have a model or an entity model on the Reconstruction Finance Corp.

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