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Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
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There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
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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.
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We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'
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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.
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When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.
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I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.
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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.
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Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful".
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