"Investigate carefully before you invest. Spend as much time researching the investment as you spend earning the money."
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"The critical investment factor is determining the intrinsic value of a business and paying a fair or bargain price."
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"It's the investor who is risky, not the investment."
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"An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job."
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"A stronger defense is an investment in peace."
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"Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times."
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"Taxes are an investment in America."
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"If, when making a stock investment, you're not considering holding it at least ten years, don't waste more than ten minutes considering it."
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"If the investor is uneducated, anything he or she invests in will be risky. So it's not the investment that is risky. It's the investor."
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"Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing."
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"Space in general gave us GPS - that's not specifically NASA, but it's investments in space."
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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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"As many micro-credit schemes across the world can testify, investment in women is the best investment for the future."
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"Investment must be rational; if you can't understand it, don't do it."
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"Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic."
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"Investment decision should be made on the basis of the most probable compounding of after-tax net worth with minimum risk."
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"Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it's probably a bad business in which to invest."
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"There can't be opportunity or jobs without investment and profit."
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"To the extent that the scientist's capacity for pursuing the truth depends upon costly apparatus, institutional collaboration and heavy capital investment by government or industry he is no longer his own master."
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"I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems."
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