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"Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of even an outstanding company to catch up with the price they paid."
"A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about the person doing the predicting."
"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."
"We would do best in a market where everyone acted foolishly."
"I have no idea on timing. It’s easier to tell what will happen than when it will happen. I would say that what is going on in terms of trade policy is going to have very important consequences."
"Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient."
"That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied."
"Someone who seeks low-risk investments never really feels investing is safe and someone who is always right eventually winds up wrong"
"People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise they'll stop investing."
"Diversification is a surrogate - and a damn poor surrogate - for knowledge, elements of control, and priceconsciousness."
"I favour passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices."
"People calculate too much and think too little."
"All sensible investing is value investing"
"I think that one should recognize reality even when one doesn't like it; indeed, especially when one doesn't like it."
"A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?"
"Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom."
"Sound investing can make you very wealthy if you're not in too big a hurry"
"The ideal business is one that earns very high returns on capital and that keeps using lots of capital at those high returns. That becomes a compounding machine."
"The greatest Enemies of the Equity investor are Expenses and Emotions."
"All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good companies."
