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Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.
The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.
I don't know anyone who said on their deathbed: 'Gee, I wish I'd spent more time at the office.'
If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes
More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing.
That's not to say there's no such thing as an overvalued market, but there's no point worrying about it.
There's a company behind every stock and a reason companies - and their stocks - perform the way they do.
Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.
Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.
Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research.
If you can't find any companies that you think are attractive, put your money in the bank until you discover some.
I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy.
You can find good reasons to scuttle your equities in every morning paper and on every broadcast of the nightly news.
My method for picking stocks has never changed. When businesses go from crappy to semicrappy, there's money to be made.
It would be wonderful if we could avoid the setbacks with timely exits, but nobody has figured out how to predict them.
The extravagance of any corporate office is directly proportional to management's reluctance to reward the shareholders.
In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.
The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share.
If you have the stomach for stocks, but neither the time nor the inclination to do the homework, invest in equity mutual funds.
The junior high schools and high schools of America have forgotten to teach one of the most important courses of all. Investing.
In the summer of 1990, I was buying stocks and I was probably three or four months early there. But we had a great rally in 1991.
Long-term investing has gotten so popular, it's easier to admit you're a crack addict than to admit you're a short-term investor.
If you go to Minnesota in January, you should know that it's gonna be cold. You don't panic when the thermometer falls below zero.
Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.
The biggest winners are surprises to me, and takeovers are even more surprising. It takes years, not months, to produce big results.
In our society, it's been the men who've handled most of the finances, and the women who've stood by and watched men botch things up.
Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets.
Imagine if you borrowed your parents' car without permission and ran it into a tree, how much better you'd feel if you were incorporated.
All the time and effort people devote to picking the right fund, the hot hand, the great manager have, in most cases, led to no advantage.
Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we'll get somewhere.
You only need a few good stocks in your lifetime. I mean how many times do you need a stock to go up ten-fold to make a lot of money? Not a lot.
The stock market really isn't a gamble, as long as you pick good companies that you think will do well, and not just because of the stock price.
Your ultimate success or failure will depend on your ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow your investments to succeed.
Just because you buy a stock and it goes up does not mean you are right. Just because you buy a stock and it goes down does not mean you are wrong.
Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.
During the Gold Rush, most would-be miners lost money, but people who sold them picks, shovels, tents and blue-jeans (Levi Strauss) made a nice profit.
The worst thing you can do is invest in companies you know nothing about. Unfortunately, buying stocks on ignorance is still a popular American pastime.
You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.
As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying statistics.
The most important organ in the body as far as the stock market is concerned is the guts, not the head. Anyone can acquire the know-how for analyzing stocks.
Average investors can become experts in their own field and can pick winning stocks as effectively as Wall Street professionals by doing just a little research.
Searching for companies is like looking for grubs under rocks: if you turn over 10 rocks you'll likely find one grub; if you turn over 20 rocks you'll find two.
All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the minuses from the stocks that don't work out.
It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.
It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it - which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.
In the long run, it's not just how much money you make that will determine your future prosperity. It's how much of that money you put to work by saving it and investing it.
I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'
There's no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or worse, to buy more of it when the fundamentals are deteriorating.
My high-tech aversion caused me to make fun of the typical biotech enterprise: $100 million in cash from selling shares, one hundred Ph.D.'s, 99 microscopes, and zero revenues.