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Investing today may well be harder than it has been at any time in our three decades of existence.
Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process.
Ben was a great believer in buying a diversified group of securities, so that he limited his risk.
The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes.
There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.
The successful investor is usually an individual who is inherently interested in business problems.
If I didn't believe in rooting for founders and investing in founders, I'd be a bit of a hypocrite.
If fees consume more than 1% of your assets annually, you should probably shop for another adviser.
When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.
Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date.
It's one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment.
We conclude that hedge funds are far riskier and provide much lower returns than commonly supposed.
There are two kinds of people who lose money: those who know nothing and those who know everything.
The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.
Hint: money flows into most funds after good performance, and goes out when bad performance follows.
The idea of investing in the positivity of employees is often low down on companies' priority lists.
I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am no investor.
Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.
Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.
Investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game.
Too often, the public can fall into the trap of investing when stock prices are rising, not dropping.
We attracted a lot of market timers and asset allocators. I don't need those ... amateurs in my fund.
The best education you can get is investing in yourself, and that doesn't mean college or university.
Index funds do not trade from security to security and, thus, they tend to avoid capital gains taxes.
You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.
Before you invest in anything else, exhaust the possibilities of investing in your own business first.
A speculator gambles that a stock will go up in price because somebody else will pay even more for it.
Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing
We must not have an economy that discourages and chases away investors from investing in South Africa.
The good news in investing is there are no HR problems. If there are no humans, there are no problems!
You never know what the American public is going to do, but you know that they will do it all at once.
Good, bad or indifferent, if you are not investing in new technology, you are going to be left behind.
You can be sure that over the next 10 years, you'll see something that you did not think was possible.
Romance is about investing in the future - with older people, there is less time for happy ever after.
Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.
Most people, whether bull or bear, when they are right, are right for the wrong reason, in my opinion.
Caring for our nation's veterans and investing in Picatinny are some of my top priorities in Congress.
Most active mutual funds are more interested in collecting fees than in boosting returns for investors.
Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them.
Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
You want to know a sure way to lose money? Buy what's popular and don't know what you are investing in.
If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.
More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing.
When you hear of somebody named Goldberg, you think of a guy sitting behind a desk investing your money.
Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.
We are committed to investing in new technology so we can remain a leader in the online luxury business.
That's not to say there's no such thing as an overvalued market, but there's no point worrying about it.
Thats one of the challenges of investing in China, is the lack of clarity with respect to tax positions.
Wouldn't it be amazing if we spent as much energy investing in experiences as we do investing in things?