"Live dangerously and you live right."
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"The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic."
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"We don't get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we'll wait, we'll wait indefinitely."
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"We're emphasizing the knowable by predicting how certain people and companies will swim against the current. We're not predicting the fluctuation in the current."
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"The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - sometimes pervasive, sometimes specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces."
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"Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference."
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"We believe that almost all really good investment records will involve relatively little diversification. The basic idea that it was hard to find good investments and that you wanted to be in good investments, and therefore, you'd just find a few of them that you knew a lot about and concentrate on those seemed to me such an obviously good idea. And indeed, it's proven to be an obviously good idea. Yet 98% of the investing world doesn't follow it. That's been good for us."
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"Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life."
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"Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity."
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"You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me."
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"In hindsight, I realized I could see into the future. Which is kind of like having premonitions of flashbacks."
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"All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one strives to treat others as he would be treated by them, he shall not fail to come near the perfect life."
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"The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the bill of rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak, of anti-communism."
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"People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature."
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"You need to have a collaborative hiring process."
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"The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing."
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"the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die"
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"There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair."
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"I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues."
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"The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win."
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