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“But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason as geometers would, if the latter were to say that the diameter of a circle is the same thing as its semi-circumference, because, forsooth, they terminate in the same two points.” 
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William James

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“Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.” 
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“How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness, is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure” 
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William James

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“The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives” 
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“Everyone knows what attention is. It is taking possession of the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seems several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought. Focalization, concentration of consciousness are of its essence. It implies a withdrawal from some things in order to deal effectively with others.” 
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“The means have murdered the end.” 
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“In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.” 
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William James

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“To know is one thing, and to know for certain that we know is another. One” 
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William James

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“Let any one try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.” 
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William James

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The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.
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Warren Buffet

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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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Warren Buffet

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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

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

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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

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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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Warren Buffet

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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.
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Warren Buffet

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

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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
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Warren Buffet

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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.
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Warren Buffet

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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Warren Buffet

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Our favorite holding period is forever.
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Warren Buffet

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

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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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Warren Buffet

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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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Warren Buffet

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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.
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Warren Buffet

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

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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
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Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
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I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
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Warren Buffet

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I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.
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The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
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Warren Buffet

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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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Value is what you get.
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Warren Buffet

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

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When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.
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Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
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Warren Buffet

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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.
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You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.
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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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Warren Buffet

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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
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Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.
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Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
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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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