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Equities will do well over time - you just have to avoid getting excited when other people are getting excited.
There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification.
The leader needs to create an environment in which people can analyze the situation and develop a good response.
The billion people who wake up every day trying to figure out if they have enough food to eat won't be at Davos.
Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.
We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.
I put the sweat of my life into this project, and if it's a failure, I'll leave the country and never come back.
If you bail out every investment bank that gets in trouble, that's not capitalism, that's socialism for the rich
If I have cash and I can't figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.
Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.
People with low financial literacy standards are often unable to take their ideas and create assets out of them.
One of the primary reasons why people struggle financially is because they cannot control their emotion of fear.
Rich dad has taught me "You can't do it" doesn't necessarily mean "you can't". It more often means "they can't".
Trust is like the air we breathe--when it's present, nobody really notices; when it's absent, everybody notices.
Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
The stock market is a wonderfully efficient mechanism for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient.
Like I say, I don't think it'll be done perfectly. Maybe we'll end up with a little bit better [economy] system.
We've had public companies in the past in that business and they bleed. We've got a lot more blood than they do.
When you're associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn't get any better than that.
It's nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.
A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.
Kenya’s M-Pesa proves that when people are empowered, they will use digital tech to innovate on their own behalf.
According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.
Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles.
So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on.
The market does not drive the scientists, the communicators, the thinkers, the government to do the right things.
Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business - I'd say, number one is have a high pain threshold.
If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.
The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff.
You can't run the economy on BMWs alone. If the average person is in a pickle, how do you have a healthy economy?
There is no single theory that is used in economics that considers the finite nature of resources. It's shocking.
Diversification has been, and balance, like Wellington, has been so drummed into me, it's part of my personality.
The market is often stupid, but you can't focus on that. Focus on the underlying value of dividends and earnings.
If you erased New York, I hate to say it, if you erased Frankfurt, even London, the world would not have changed.
At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting.
If you own a butcher shop, don't hire vegetarians. To hire the right people, you have to let the wrong people go.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
A lot of companies have lots of assets tied up in plant and equipment. Well, is it old plant, or is it new plant?
Before selling, try to re-evaluate the company again and see where the stock sells in realtion to its book value.
A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.
The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don’t have to swing at everything – you can wait for your pitch.
In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.
I believe if we and the Mexicans make a very sensible trade agreement, the Mexican peso will recover quite a lot.
The market is always making mountains out of molehills and exaggerating ordinary vicissitudes into major setbacks.
Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed.
The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.
The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.
An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return.
Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.