"The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing."
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"Rationality is not just something you do so that you can make more money, it is a binding principle. Rationality is a really good idea. You must avoid the nonsense that is conventional in one's own time. It requires developing systems of thought that improve your batting average over time."
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"A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer."
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"Average companies give their people something to work on. The most innovative organizations give their people something to work toward."
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"When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure."
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"The average are addicted to leisure. The exceptional are obsessed with learning."
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"Critics only speak up when they see someone shining. Average work doesn't threaten them."
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"Divorced women, compared to married women, are less satisfied with their lives, which is not surprising. But they're actually more cheerful, when you look at the average mood they're in in the course of the day."
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"You don't have to have perfect wisdom to get very rich - just a bit better than average over a long period of time."
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"You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long, time."
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"Human beings have been smart enough to turn nature to their ends, generate vast wealth for themselves, and double their average life span. But are they smart enough to solve the problems of the 21st century?"
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"Failing once doesn't make you a failure. One difference between a successful person and an average person is how much criticism they can take, the average person cannot take much criticism and that's why they fail to be leaders and they do remain average all their lives"
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"An incredible advertising career is not about creating an incredibly amazing ad, it's about making an incredible amazing ad every single day of your career, it's about getting those adds killed, and resurrecting them over and over again. It's about your season average not that occasional home-run."
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"The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go."
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"Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being."
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"Quinn's First Law of Investing is never to buy anything whose price you can't follow in the newspapers. An investment without a public marketplace attracts the fabulists the way picnics attract ants. Stock brokers and financial planners can tell you anything they want, because no one really knows what's true. The First Corollary to Quinn's First Law states that, even when the price is in the newspapers, you shouldn't buy anything too complex to explain to the average 12-year-old."
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"Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days."
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"To enjoy a reasonable chance for continued better than average results, the investor must follow policies which are (1) inherently sound and promising, and (2) not popular on Wall Street."
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"The determining trait of the enterprising (or active, or aggressive) investor is his willingness to devote time and care to the selection of securities that are both sound and more attractive than the average."
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"Wells Fargo behaves better than the average big bank. But nobody's perfect."
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