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"The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule."
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"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."

"We often bow down to our feelings without realizing how fickle and unreliable they are."

"Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you."

"Do your emotions influence You or are You influenced by your emotions?"

"It is much easier to concentrate the mind on external things, than to concentrate on the mind itself. For example, a Neuroscientist can be the smartest man (or woman) on earth in his understanding of the human mind. He may know all the neurochemical changes underlying an outrageous behavior of a person. But when he gets mad himself, very little of his own scientific intellect would actually come in handy for him to control his rage. The virtue of self-control is a skill, which requires practice, regardless of all the neurobiological expertise in the world."

"God in His perfect wisdom gave you power to control only one thing in the entire universe, and that is you."

"If I could mark clearly, convincingly and consistently what was good for me and also what was bad-if I could say yes and also no, as if it were the law-it would become my law."

"He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power."

"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile."

"Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now and posterity."
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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."

"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."

"It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride."

"In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497."

"We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out."

"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."

"We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II."
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