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  I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

  3.7 · 28 votes · 169 reads

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  I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

  3.4 · 14 votes · 184 reads

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  I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of

  4.2 · 35 votes · 186 reads

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  I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

  3.7 · 29 votes · 163 reads

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  I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

  4.9 · 5 votes · 151 reads

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  I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

  4.9 · 17 votes · 108 reads

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  I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

  3.6 · 7 votes · 131 reads

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  I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

  4.0 · 12 votes · 58 reads

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  I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can't be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down becaus

  4.0 · 42 votes · 18 reads

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  I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of American capitalism.

  4.4 · 11 votes · 40 reads

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  I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particul

  3.8 · 56 votes · 109 reads

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  If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

  4.2 · 46 votes · 66 reads

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  If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've

  3.1 · 43 votes · 143 reads

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  If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

  4.0 · 47 votes · 154 reads

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• Government and Politics

  In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Ye

  3.0 · 29 votes · 53 reads

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  In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

  5.0 · 13 votes · 135 reads

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  It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

  5.0 · 42 votes · 1 reads

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  It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

  4.6 · 56 votes · 138 reads

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  It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

  4.2 · 63 votes · 119 reads

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  It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

  3.2 · 31 votes · 26 reads

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  Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

  3.5 · 56 votes · 139 reads

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  Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

  3.4 · 31 votes · 135 reads

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  Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

  4.2 · 31 votes · 151 reads

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  Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

  3.3 · 25 votes · 15 reads

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  Our favorite holding period is forever.

  4.9 · 33 votes · 145 reads

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  Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

  3.0 · 37 votes · 69 reads

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  Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

  4.0 · 29 votes · 126 reads

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  Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

  3.9 · 56 votes · 149 reads

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  Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

  4.8 · 33 votes · 174 reads

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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.

  3.0 · 34 votes · 140 reads

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  Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

  5.0 · 60 votes · 21 reads

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  The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

  3.3 · 10 votes · 111 reads

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

  4.1 · 20 votes · 1 reads

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  The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

  4.7 · 25 votes · 145 reads

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  The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.

  3.0 · 60 votes · 166 reads

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  The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.

  4.4 · 50 votes · 79 reads

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  The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

  4.3 · 16 votes · 96 reads

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• Nature

  There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.

  3.7 · 46 votes · 148 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

  3.9 · 7 votes · 0 reads

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• Time

  Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

  4.5 · 14 votes · 95 reads

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