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All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them.
"Now you can trade the S&P 500 Index in real time" was the slogan in the newspapers for the first ETF. What kind of nut would do that?
If you knew what was going to happen in the economy, you still wouldn't necessarily know what was going to happen in the stock market.
He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection that he devotes to the selection of a medium-priced automobile.
By refusing to pay too much for an investment, you minimize the chances that your wealth will ever disappear or suddenly be destroyed.
The intelligent investor gets interested in big growth stocks not when they are at their most popular - but when something goes wrong.
The grim irony of investing is that we investors as a group not only don't get what we pay for, we get precisely what we don't pay for.
Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes.
Investing in girls can actually move the needle in communities... and can actually benefit boys, because girls are the mothers of boys.
It is literally true that millions come easier to a trader after he knows how to trade, than hundreds did in the days of his ignorance.
I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
Although there are good and bad companies, there is no such thing as a good stock; there are only good stock prices, which come and go.
The stock market resembles a huge laundry in which institutions take in large blocks of each others washing ... without rhyme or reason.
Many of the biggest and most far-reaching investments we make in our lives are investments that have little or nothing to do with money.
I've always loved to play games, and face it: investing is one big game. You need to be decisive, open-minded, flexible and competitive.
My mother enjoyed few things more than investing in the underdogs and showing them that they were special and could achieve their dreams.
The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in futility).
In many aspects of government, as in the tech world and investing, brains and temperament smash experience and seniority out of the park.
Globalization has rendered the world increasingly interdependent, but international politics is still based on the sovereignty of states.
Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition.
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
Investing now in safe-guarding people by helping them to adapt to climate change, will help save money and lives while building resilience.
If you're not working to get your business or investing operation to operate without you, you're thinking too small. Think team and systems.
The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern.
We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.
The surest way to find an actively managed fund that will have top-quartile returns is to look for a fund that has bottom-quartile expenses.
The intelligent investor should recognize that market panics can create great prices for good companies and good prices for great companies.
From my experience, there are so many regulations for investing in the United States that they become an impediment, a barrier to investing.
I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.
To see how much a company is truly earning on the capital it deploys in its businesses, look beyond EPS to Return on Invested Capital (ROIC).
I have a motto: it's never too late to give up. It's never too late to give up what you are doing, and start doing what you realise you love.
The fact that a lot of people, especially younger folks, are not investing in the stock market is something we really think needs addressing.
For me it's all about keeping things simple and feeling comfortable in what I am wearing. I prefer investing in classic well-tailored pieces.
Cash never makes us happy, but it's better to have the money burning a hole in Berkshire's pocket than resting comfortably in someone else's.
The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have even more meaning
If only one word is to be used to describe what Baupost does, that word should be: 'Mispricing'. We look for mispricing due to over-reaction.
I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
We need to be investing in resources, like Women Step Forward, to provide immigrants with trusted information about their rights and options.
This LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into harmony.
Everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it and get it incorporated into prices.
(On being the world's richest man) I wish I wasn't ... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.
We need to simplify the tax code to reward Americans for working hard, investing, saving - and allow families to keep more of their own money.
It's wonderful to see more of my colleagues recognizing the importance of investing in STEM education and scientific research and development.
Investing in long overdue infrastructure projects like the Montgomery Locks and Dams system is critical to the health of our region's economy.
I have $100 billion... You realize I could spend $3 million a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime.
I’ve always said that a wise businessperson will support the ANC… because supporting the ANC means you’re investing very well in your business
All intelligent investing is value investing - acquiring more that you are paying for. You must value the business in order to value the stock.
While many applauded Oprah for opening her heart to young girls in South Africa, some criticized her for not investing in the youth of America.
I favour passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.
Very little evidence was found that any individual fund was able to do significantly better than that which we expected from mere random chance.