"You have no ability, if you're a..." - Quote by Warren Buffett
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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“Well, I think the biggest mistake is not learning the habits of saving properly early. Because saving is a habit. And then, trying to get rich quick. It's pretty easy to get well-to-do slowly. But it's not easy to get rich quick.”
“When you're associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn't get any better than that.”
“I buy expensive suits - they just look cheap on me.”
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“I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.”
“Whether government finances its added spending by increasing taxes, by borrowing, or by inflating the currency, the added spending will be offset by reduced private spending. Furthermore, private spending is generally more efficient than the government spending that would replace it because people act more carefully when they spend their own money than when they spend other people's money.”
“I've got a grocery bill at the end of every month.Our toothpaste, our orange juice, that all gets paid. But I - it is true that I don't carry my wallet that often.”
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“Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.”
“Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.”
“A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United States be abandoned and that the method used in choosing juries be substituted. That is to say, I propose that the men who make our laws be chosen by chance and against will of all the rest of us, as now.”