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"Anything can happen anytime in markets. And no advisor, economist, or TV commentator-and definitely not Charlie nor I-can tell you when chaos will occur. Market forecasters will fill your ear but will never fill your wallet."
"I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't."
"After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world."
"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 beauty of periodic rebalancing is that it forces you to base your investing decisions on a simple, objective standard."
"A speculator gambles that a stock will go up in price because somebody else will pay even more for it."
"Thousands of people have tried, and the evidence is clear: The more you trade, the less you keep."
"All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology."
"It never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently uses all the obvious and easily learned principles."
"All intelligent investing is value investing - acquiring more that you are paying for. You must value the business in order to value the stock."
"The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition."
"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."
"Focus on your customers and lead your people as though their lives depend on your success."
"By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals."
"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 margin of safety is always dependent on the price paid. It will be large at one price, small at some higher price, nonexistent at some still higher price."
"Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they are cheap."
"The intelligent investor shouldn't ignore Mr. Market entirely. Instead, you should do business with him- but only to the extent that it serves your interests."
"Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph."
"You're looking for a mispriced gamble. That's what investing is. And you have to know enough to know whether the gamble is mispriced. That's value investing."
