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Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.

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In our view, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction carrying dangers that, while latent, are potentially lethal.

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I'm always interested in understanding the math of things and understanding as much as I can about all aspects of business. And what I learn today may be useful to me two years from now. That's really the wonderful thing about investments is your knowledge is cumulative.

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Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis.

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

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Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner.

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If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich.

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I like to buy things I can understand. I do a lot of research on things.

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Over the years, a number of very smart people have learned the hard way that a long string of impressive numbers multiplied by a single zero always equals zero.

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It's not debt per say that overwhelms an individual corporation or country. Rather it is a continuous increase in debt in relation to income that causes trouble.

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It's easier to create money than to spend it.

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Beware [of] the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns.

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Investing is simple, but not easy.

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Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: "Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth".

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Don't pass up something that's attractive today because you think you will find something way more attractive tomorrow.

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The stock market is a wonderfully efficient mechanism for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient.

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People do, as long as you have markets, you'll have excesses.

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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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I understand Goldman Sachs businesses. We do lot of business with him, and GE has been - I think it's the longest running stock in the Dow Jones industrial average. It will be 100 years now it will be around. I hope I'm around then, too. And it was an attractive investment. And we have had a lot of money around, over the last two years, and we're seeing things that are attractive now.

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I think confidence will come back.

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