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It's the deleveraging that's going on right now that has caused the credit crisis.
Warren Buffett
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AIG would be doing fine today. It was one of the ten largest companies in the United States in terms of market value, over 200 billion, the most respected insurer and everything in the world.
Warren Buffett
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We like to buy businesses, but we don't like to sell them.
Warren Buffett
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I mean there is no capital requirements to it or anything of the sort. And basically, I said there were possibly financial weapons of mass destruction, and they had them. They destroyed AIG. They certainly contributed to the destruction of Bear Sterns and Lehman. Although Lehman had other problems, too.
Warren Buffett
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A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.
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The Fed is the greatest hedge fund in history.
Warren Buffett
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I would say the biggest single cause was we had an incredible residential real estate bubble.
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We are trading away a little bit of our country all the time for this access consumption that we have over what we've produced. That is not good. I think it's terrible over time. But our country's productive grows enough so we actually can do that, and we'll still be better off. We just don't be as well off as if we hadn't done it.
Warren Buffett
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There is no question we have an access stock.
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Anything can happen in stock markets and you ought to conduct your affairs so that if the most extraordinary events happen, that you're still around to play the next day.
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I'll bring my tax returns you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.
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People should always know better.
Warren Buffett
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With housing it's something even more dramatic than that, because most people aspire to own their own home.If you really think that houses prices are going to go up next year and the year after, you feel if I don't buy it this year, I'm going to have to buy it next year.That's not true of an Internet stock. But it's true of a home.
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I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.
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A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of great companies with great management at good prices. Only for short term investors and market timers is a correction not an opportunity.
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You can lose leverage, and it's the only way a smart guy can go broke.
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If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing.
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Don't invest in pieces of papers (stocks), invest in great businesses underlying them
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If you owe money, you can't pay them out. You just pay for everything, you do smart things, you eventually get very rich.
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I view derivatives as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system.
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If you do smart things and use leverage and do one wrong thing along the way, it could wipe you out, because anything times zero is zero. But it's reinforcing when the people around you are doing it successfully, you're doing it successfully, and it's a lot like Cinderella at the ball.
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At this point, when treasury bills, seven day treasury bills at 1/20th of one percent, it's not because people want to earn 1/20th of one percent, it's because they trust the fact the treasury will give it back to them next week.
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I do not like debt and do not like to invest in companies that have too much debt, particularly long-term debt. With long-term debt, increases in interest rates can drastically affect company profits and make future cash flows less predictable.
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My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest.
Warren Buffett
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