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Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.
I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.
If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them.
Practical investors usually learn their problem is finding enough outstanding investments, rather than choosing among too many.
Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.
Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.
Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.
I take the market-efficiency hypothesis to be the simple statement that security prices fully reflect all available information.
'Statistics' show that 66% of clients are cured with psychotherapy; what statistics don't show is that 72% are cured without it.
People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise they'll stop investing.
Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.
The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.
Confidence in a forecast rises with the amount of information that goes into it. But the accuracy of the forecast stays the same.
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.
As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him.
The cloud is one of the most extraordinary opportunities of our lifetime. If we're not investing now, we'll rue the day we didn't.
Not only does investing in your infrastructure provide very good construction jobs, at the end of the project, you have something.
You hear all this whining going on, "Where are our great writers?" The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph.
I plan to eliminate regulations that hinder domestic companies, particularly large conglomerates from investing in other companies.
When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: 'we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year.
The tax code rewards corporations for outsourcing jobs, and their profits overseas, instead of investing here in the United States.
By investing in diverse asset types from SD video to HD video to 4K video, we can satisfy the video needs of a wide array of users.
Why don't you just ease up a little bit, just be professional. Maybe you're over-investing - maybe you're caring a little too much.
Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual's cash flow and wealth.
Our economy is the result of millions of decisions we all make every day about producing, earning, saving, investing, and spending.
To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.
The cardinal maxim is, that any aid to a present bad Bank is the surest mode of preventing the establishment of a future good Bank.
Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.
Nobody wants to be passive; indexing is not passive - much more goes into indexing than watching a stock become the next buggy whip.
As alleged, the most senior executives at Brixmor engaged in a years-long scheme to cook the books and deceive the investing public.
Successful investing professionals are disciplined and consistent and they think a great deal about what they do and how they do it.
I find it more enjoyable investing time doing what pleases me, rather than wasting precious time attempting to please everyone else.
It takes character to sit there with all that cash and do nothing. I didn't get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities.
If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions.
Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.
As we say at Year Up all the time, investing in our young people is not just a matter of economic justice. It's good business sense.
The entire pursuit of value investing requires you to see where the crowd is wrong so that you can profit from their misperceptions.
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.
I've been investing in the stock market for 27 years and, within that time, have helped investors beat the market nearly four to one.
It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.
Most investors are primarily oriented toward return, how much they can make and pay little attention to risk, how much they can lose.
You see countries like India really investing in their space program because they see it as inspirational and good for their economy.
To me I think leadership is activism. It's giving back to your community, it's investing in oneself, and you know women and children.
Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.
We ignore outlooks and forecasts... we're lousy at it and we admit it ... everyone else is lousy too, but most people won't admit it.
Someone who seeks low-risk investments never really feels investing is safe and someone who is always right eventually winds up wrong
On average, 90 percent of the variability of returns and 100 percent of the absolute level of return is explained by asset allocation.
Other than playing the game I love, my passion is investing in innovative companies and helping the entrepreneurs behind them succeed.