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Warren Buffett says success isn’t measured by the amount of money you have. He warns that greed, fear and foolishness are common, while health and love matter more than wealth. He also notes that staying productive and happy is possible at any age.

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Very successful people say no to almost everything.

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Always associate yourself with people who are better than you.

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People do, as long as you have markets, you'll have excesses.

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Success is having people love you that you want to have love you.

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People should always know better.

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I lose confidence in other people, all kinds of institutions.

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

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There are three kinds of people: 1. Innovators. 2. Imitators. 3. Idiots.

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I measure success by how many people love me. And the best way to be loved is to be lo veable.

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When you're associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn't get any better than that.

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

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People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed.

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It's a big mistake to try and mislead people. They will turn around.

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For some reason people take their cues from price action rather than from values. Price is what you pay. Value is what…

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Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and…

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We always see shifts in employment. If you think about it, if you go back to 1800, it took 80 percent of…

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Never give up searching for the job that you’re passionate about. Try to find the job you’d have if you were independently…

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A home is one of the most important assets that most people will ever buy. Homes are also where memories are made…

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You have hedge funds and people like that buying these assets to yield 15 or 20 percent, I mean, that's the buyer…

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I certainly have no desire to sell a good controlled business run by people I like and admire, merely to obtain a…

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I've seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage -- leverage being borrowed money. You really don't need leverage in this…

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People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea Bubble, they went crazy internet stocks, they went crazy…

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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…

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It is unquestionably true that the investment companies have their money more conventionally invested than we do. To many people conventionality is…

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I just don't see anything available that gives any reasonable hope of delivering such a good year and I have no desire…

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Generally, we have translated greater output in the few hours of work per week over the last century. And that's a good…

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I think that they hoped the private sector would come in. And the private sector tried to come in until they saw…

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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.…

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For some reason, people take their cues from price action rather than from values. What doesn't work is when you start doing…

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There's always a mismatch. I mean, you know, as the economy evolves, it reallocates resources. Now, the real problem, in my view,…

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That would be nice if [people] stuck [treasury bills] all under a mattress, but they got to buy something with them. Sometimes…

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The idea that you try to time purchases based on what you think business is going to do in the next year…

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There are three important principles to Graham's approach. [The first is to look at stocks as fractional shares of a business, which]…

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You've got the right - you've got a wonderful person with Sheila Bair, most of the viewers have never heard of Sheila…

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What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history.

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The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.

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Focus on your customers and lead your people as though their lives depend on your success.

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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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It's better to build than to buy if you can find the right people.

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You’ve gotta keep control of your time, and you can’t unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in…

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