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It would be wonderful if we could avoid the setbacks with timely exits, but nobody has figured out how to predict them.
The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.
I think that survivorship bias, the survivorship bias is something I'm very acutely familiar with because of investing.
People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity.
Investing is about intellectual honesty. You want to know what you know. You want to know, mostly, what you don't know.
Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they are cheap.
The trick is to take risks and be paid for taking those risks, but to take a diversified basket of risks in a portfolio.
We're going to spend our entire future living in tomorrow-investing now, when it's difficult, is the single best moment.
We really can say no in 10 seconds or so to 90%+ of all the things that come along simply because we have these filters.
Often I am asked, 'Why are you investing in bitcoin and VR? Those markets dont exist.' You mean they do not exist - yet.
With Huda Beauty Angels, we're investing a portion of our personal family wealth to women-led brands that we believe in!
Diversification is a surrogate - and a damn poor surrogate - for knowledge, elements of control, and priceconsciousness.
We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
To me, the most critical thing in agriculture is investing in the peasant agriculture, transforming peasant agriculture.
Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.
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.
When I retire, I wanna be able to just lay back. Only way to make it happen is to be investing my money, not spending it.
The U.K. has to keep investing in new technology, skills, and infrastructure to keep pace with international competition.
... a speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.
The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.
Things are temporary, relationships last forever. Nothing can replace the time we spend investing in the life of another.
In almost every walk of life, people buy more at lower prices; in the stock market they seem to buy more at higher prices.
Slow investing can have the same impact on startups that slow food has had on cuisine: good things come to those who wait.
China is taking over Brazil, and that is worrying. They are investing in mining, agriculture, energy, ports, and airports.
If I'd only followed CNBC's advice, I'd have a million dollars today. Provided I'd started with a hundred million dollars.
An intelligent investor gets satisfaction from the thought that his operations are exactly opposite to those of the crowd.
The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share.
The beauty of periodic rebalancing is that it forces you to base your investing decisions on a simple, objective standard.
What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
The record of a month's roulette playing at Monte Carlo can afford us material for discussing the foundations of knowledge.
People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.
Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are.
I find value investing to be a stimulating, intellectually challenging, ever changing, and financially rewarding discipline
Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks.
All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good companies.
I knew a lot about what I did when I was 20. I had read a lot, and I aspired to learn everything I could about the subject.
The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.
If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.
Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains.
Australia's economic future depends upon getting smarter. This means investing in the skills and knowledge of our workforce.
It's important for you to understand that stock and bonds go up-and they go down. You need to be comfortable with that fact.
We need to be investing in the low-carbon technologies that are creating the apprenticeships and skilled jobs of the future.
Investing in rail is an easy way to reduce congestion, cost, and energy consumption and make our producers more competitive.
Like health care, education is something worth spending on and worth investing in, but we're spending more and getting less.
While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster
Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley. Most people don't want Ferraris, they want a winning seed investment.
This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.
People who look for easy money invariable pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this earth.