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My wife watches me like a hawk.
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Hawks
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I'm no robin hood, I enjoy making the money.
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Enjoy
Robin Hood
Robins
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Im a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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Boards
Cynic
Democracy
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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Boards
Corporate
Cynic
Democracy
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When nobody wants something, that creates an opportunity.
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Opportunity
Want
Want Something
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Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.
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Billions
Dollars
Quarters
Billion
Billion Dollars
Quarter
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You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.
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Business
Dog
Friend
Learn
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You learn in this business.. If you want a friend, get a dog.
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Friendship
Business
Dog
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Don't go in and tell somebody else how to run their business.
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I enjoy the hunt much more than the 'good life' after the victory.
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Enjoy
Good Life
Hunt
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I enjoy the hunt much more than the “good life” after the victory.
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Enjoy
Good Life
Victory
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Everything I have is for sale, except for my kids and possibly my wife.
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Kids
My Wife
Wife
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Yellen’s comments suggest, and I agree, that we are in an asset bubble.
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Agree
Assets
Comment
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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Certain
Fulfilled
Joy
Winning
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A lot of people died fighting tyranny. The least I can do is vote against it.
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Fighting
People
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I have to look out for the shareholder’s interests, and I’m the largest shareholder.
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Interest
Looks
Shareholders
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When most investors, including the pros, all agree on something, they're usually wrong.
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Agree
Including
Investors
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Don't confuse luck with skill when judging others, and especially when judging yourself.
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Judging Yourself
Luck
Skills
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When you have no one to answer to, vendetta as investment strategy is as legitimate as anything.
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Investment
Strategy
Vendetta
Answer
Legitimate
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Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. Me, I make money studying natural stupidity.
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Intelligence
Money
Entrepreneur
People
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I believe there are and will be major opportunities to enhance Time Warner's value in future combinations.
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Opportunity
Positive
Believe
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The CEO is, by far, the most important decision for a company... The company is going to rise and fall with the CEO.
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Decision
Fall
Important
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We have bloated bureaucracies in Corporate America. The root of the problem is the absence of real corporate democracy.
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America
Real
Roots
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CEOs are paid for doing a terrible job. If the system wasn't so messed up, guys like me wouldn't make this kind of money.
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Jobs
Guy
Kind
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I can tell you how bad our boards are... I don't have to watch Saturday Night Live anymore; I just go to the board meetings.
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Funny Graduation
Night
Watches
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With some exceptions, the wrong people are running U.S. companies. It's been that way for years, and it hasn't gotten much better.
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Running
People
Years
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In life and business, there are two cardinal sins. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all.
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Business
Mistake
Self Esteem
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Had a nice conversation with Tim Cook today. Discussed my opinion that a larger buyback should be done now. We plan to speak again shortly.
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Done
Nice
Today
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A great company in the media business needs visionary leaders, not a conglomerate structure headquartered in Columbus Circle that second guesses.
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Leadership
Greatness
Media
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We want these assets to be productive. We buy them. We own them. To say we care only about the short term is wrong. What I care about is seeing these assets in the best hands
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Care
Hands
Want
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When friends and acquaintances are telling you [that] you are a genius, before you accept their opinion, take a moment to remember what you always thought of their opinions in the past.
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Past
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Too often it's not the most creative guys or the smartest. Instead, it's the ones who are best at playing politics and soft-soaping their bosses. Boards don't like tough, abrasive guys.
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Creative
Guy
Intelligent
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We're not about liquidating companies, but if you do that, why is that terrible? We're not blowing up the factories. The person who buys it should be able to make the asset more productive.
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Able
Factories
Management
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In 2008, people who invested in hedge funds needed capital badly, but many of the funds would not return their money. However, I gave money back to any investor who requested it. It was the bottom of the market and a pretty tough time.
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Bottom
Return
Time Money People
Badly
Capital
Funds
Hedge
Invested
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And I'm convinced, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you can work with the unions because the unions want to survive. If they are confronted simply with the question: "Do you want this company to survive or do you want it to be broken up?" they will listen. It's their livelihood.
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Broken
Doubt
Shadow
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Reuters was completely accurate that I am concerned about the level of the market. But I also made it clear on the conference call (and I believe as Reuters reported it), that it is almost impossible to predict what a market will do in the short term. There are too many variables.
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Now the guy that got to the top, the CEO, would obviously be stupid to have a number two guy who was a lot smarter than he is. So by definition, since he's a survivor and he got to the top and he isn't that brilliant, his number two guy is going to always be a little worse than he is. So, as time goes on, it's anti-Darwinism, the survival of the un- fittest.
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Two
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In life and business, there are two cardinal sins, the first is to act precipitously without thought, and the second is to not act at all. Unfortunately the board of directors and top management of Times Warner already committed the first sin by merging with AOL, and we believe they are currently in the process of committing the second; now is not a time to move slowly and suffer the paralysis of inaction.
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