"The advice "you never go broke taking a profit" is foolish."
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"Remember that the stock market is manic-depressive."
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"We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good."
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"Does the business have favourable long term prospects?"
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"I get to do what I like to do every single day of the year."
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"The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs."
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"Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote."
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"It's not debt per say that overwhelms an individual corporation or country. Rather it is a continuous increase in debt in relation to income that causes trouble."
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"As far as you are concerned, the stock market does not exist. Ignore it."
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"A hyperactive stock market is the pickpocket of enterprise."
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"Optimism is the content of small men in high places."
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"If you roll dice, you know that the odds are one in six that the dice will come up on a particular side. So you can calculate the risk. But, in the stock market, such computations are bull - you don't even know how many sides the dice have!"
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"If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'."
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"I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life."
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"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."
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"... Any pension fund manager who doesn't have the vast majority-and I mean 70% or 80% of his or her portfolio-in passive investments is guilty of malfeasance, nonfeasance or some other kind of bad feasance!"
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"Most people might just as well buy a share of the whole market, which pools all the information, than delude themselves into thinking they know something the market doesn't."
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"There is safety in numbers."
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"Question: So investors shouldn't delude themselves about beating the market? Answer: "They're just not going to do it. It's just not going to happen.""
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"Confidence in a forecast rises with the amount of information that goes into it. But the accuracy of the forecast stays the same."
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