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They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. The chains you put around yourself now have enormous consequences as you go through life.

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It makes a difference who the treasury secretary is.

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Failure comes from ego, greed, envy, fear, imitation. I have success not because I am smart, but because I am rational.

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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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The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

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

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Shares are not mere pieces of paper. They represent part ownership of a business. So, when contemplating an investment, think like a prospective owner.

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All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good companies.

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In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard.

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A lot of people disagree with me on this, I believe in mark to market.

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Many stock options in the corporate world have worked in exactly that fashion: they have gained in value simply because management retained earnings, not because it did well with the capital in its hands.

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I think confidence will come back.

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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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Activity is the enemy of investment returns.

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OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched.

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Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

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Investment decision should be made on the basis of the most probable compounding of after-tax net worth with minimum risk.

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I am not worried about the country. I'm just worried about anything that gums up the potential of the country. And right now, it's pretty gummed up.

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There are a few investment managers, of course, who are very good - though in the short run, it's difficult to determine whether a great record is due to luck or talent. Most advisors, however, are far better at generating high fees than they are at generating high returns. In truth, their core competence is salesmanship. Rather than listen to their siren songs, investors - large and small - should instead read Jack Bogle's The Little Book of Common Sense Investing.

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Enjoy your work and work for whom you admire.

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