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“Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.”
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“It doesn't make sense to hire good people and tell them what to do; we hire good people so they can tell us what to do.”
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“If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said. -- Speaking to a Senate Committee in 1987, as quoted in the Guardian Weekly, November 4, 2005.”
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“Saints are sinners who kept on going.”
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“In fact, when Warren Buffett was once asked about the key to success, he pointed to a stack of nearby books and said, “Read 500 pages like this every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it.”
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