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You want to be greedy when others are fearful.
You're generally better off sticking with what you know.
Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth.
The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money.
You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.
No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.
Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.
Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change.
When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.
Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.
Experience taught me to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.
Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.
It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.
Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.
When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.
I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.
I advise women to invest in real estate. It is the collateral to be preferred above all others, and the safest means of investing money.
The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.
You realise the responsibility of carrying a film on your shoulders when people are investing money in you and they recognise the hard work you have to put in.
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
You're dealing with a lot of silly people in the marketplace; it's like a great big casino and everyone else is boozing. If you can stick with Pepsi, you should be OK.
Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.
I've seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage -- leverage being borrowed money. You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing.
You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
Many businesses fail because the owner wasn't willing to invest and wasn't educated on the difference between spending money frivolously and investing money into the business for growth, and the risks and rewards of that cash infusion.
Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should try to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy only when others are fearful.
While Financier George Soros was investing money in Kosovo's reconstruction, the George Soros Foundation for an Open Society had opened a branch office in Pristina establishing the Kosovo Foundation for an Open Society (KFOS) as part of the Soros' network of "non-profit foundations" in the Balkans.
If we assume that there are normal or standard income results to be obtained from investing money in securities, then the role of the adviser can be more readily established. He will use his superior training and experience to protect his clients against mistakes and to make sure that they obtain the results to which their money is entitled.
The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed triumphs. Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball.