"When investing, pessimism is your friend, euphoria the enemy."
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"Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date."
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"We will only do with your money what we would do with our own."
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"Successful investing is about having people agree with you ... later."
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"The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty."
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"The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. This means ... that he should be able to justify every purchase he makes and each price he pays by impersonal, objective reasoning that satisfies him that he is getting more than his money's worth for his purchase."
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"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)."
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"An investor calculates what a stock is worth, based on the value of its businesses."
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"It should be remembered that a decline of 50% fully offsets a preceding advance of 100%."
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"Losing some money is an inevitable part of investing, and there's nothing you can do to prevent it. But to be an intelligent investor, you must take responsibility for ensuring that you never lose most or all of your money."
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"Time and space are not conditions of existence, time and space is a model for thinking"
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"Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell."
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"The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years ago."
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"A vast industry of stockbrokers, financial planners, and investment advisers skims a fortune for themselves off the top in exchange for passing their clients' money on to people who, as a whole, cannot possibly outperform the market."
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"There is nothing more important to this nation's future than investing in our young people."
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"In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and emotional impossibility."
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"Mr. Market's job is to provide you with prices; your job is to decide whether it is to your advantage to act on them. You no not have to trade with hime just because he constantly begs you to."
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"No statement is more true and better applicable to Wall Street than the famous warning of Santayana: "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it"."
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"It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts."
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"Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors."
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