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• Value investing requires a great deal of hard work, unusually strict discipline, and a long-term investment horizon. Few are willing and able to devote sufficient time and effort to become value investors, and only a fraction of those have the proper mind-set to succeed.

  Seth Klarman

  Hard Work, Discipline, Long

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• By investing at a discount, Benjamin Graham knew that he was unlikely to experience losses.

  Seth Klarman

  Loss, Unlikely, Discounts

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• there are all kinds of wonderful new inventions that give you nothing as owners except the opportunity to spend a lot more money in a business that's still going to be lousy. The money still won't come to you. All of the advantages from great improvements are going to flow through to the customers.

  Charlie Munger

  Opportunity, Giving, New Inventions

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• Volatility is a symptom that people have no idea of the underlying value.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Ideas, People, Symptoms

  "Henry Blodget Debates Jeremy Grantham". Interview with James M. Clash, www.forbes.com. June 12, 2000.

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• Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Pundits, Knows, Forecasts

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• When a possibility is unfamiliar to us, we do not even think about it.

  Nate Silver

  Thinking, Possibility, Unfamiliar

  Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.287, Penguin

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• 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.

  Warren Buffett

  Economy, Stills, Happens

  "What Warren thinks". Interview with Nicholas Varchaver, archive.fortune.com. April 14, 2008.

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• On average, 90 percent of the variability of returns and 100 percent of the absolute level of return is explained by asset allocation.

  Roger G. Ibbotson

  Average, Levels, Return

  "Does Asset Allocation Policy Explain 40%, 90% or 100% of Performance?". Study by Roger G. Ibbotson and Paul D. Kaplan, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1998, revised April 1999.

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• Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own long-term national interests.

  Liya Kebede

  Rights, Long, Generations

  "Let’s Make Mother’s Day a Global Reality" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2009.

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• Our government is committed to investing in world-class research networks such as GlycoNet, which will develop new drugs and vaccines to fight diseases that affect millions of Canadians. These investments will improve our quality of life and contribute to the creation of a stronger, more innovative economy and a more prosperous Canada.

  Rona Ambrose

  Fighting, Class, Vaccines

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• In ourselves, rather than in material nature, lie the true source and life of the beautiful. The human soul is the sun which diffuses light on every side, investing creation with its lovely hues, and calling forth the poetic element that lies hidden in every existing thing.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Beauty, Beautiful, Lying

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• The only preparation for prospering in the global economy is investing in ourselves.

  William J. Clinton

  Preparation, Economy, Prospering

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• To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit--investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm to create wealth and value.

  William J. Clinton

  America, Firsts, Twenties

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• Investing and connecting are the key factors in turning any intention into reality.

  Rhonda Britten

  Reality, Keys, Intention

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• It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Men, Rich, Poor

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• There is a secret to investing that cuts a path directly to the profits that you're looking for. The secret is simplicity. The more elementary your investment style, the more confident you can be of making money in the long run.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Running, Money, Cutting

  Jane Bryant Quinn (2009). “Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy”, p.691, Simon and Schuster

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• Quinn's First Law of Investing is never to buy anything whose price you can't follow in the newspapers. An investment without a public marketplace attracts the fabulists the way picnics attract ants. Stock brokers and financial planners can tell you anything they want, because no one really knows what's true. The First Corollary to Quinn's First Law states that, even when the price is in the newspapers, you shouldn't buy anything too complex to explain to the average 12-year-old.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Money, Average, Years

  Jane Bryant Quinn (1997). “Making the Most of Your Money”, p.789, Simon and Schuster

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• Investing in Chicago property is just Wandas first move into the U.S. real estate market.

  Wang Jianlin

  Real, Moving, Chicago

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• What's both fascinating and challenging about investing is that the changing nature of business and finance means you can never have it all figured out.

  Whitney Tilson

  Mean, Challenges, Finance

  Whitney Tilson, Glenn Tongue (2009). “More Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times”, p.139, John Wiley & Sons

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• It is the long-term investor...who will in practice come in for the most criticism... For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion

  John Maynard Keynes

  Eye, Average, Essence

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• Speculators often prosper through ignorance; it is a cliché that in a roaring bull market knowledge is superfluous and experience is a handicap. But the typical experience of the speculator is one of temporary profit and ultimate loss

  Benjamin Graham

  Ignorance, Loss, Typical

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• Sound investing can make you very wealthy if you're not in too big a hurry

  Warren Buffett

  Sound, Bigs, Wealthy

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• There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it

  Andrew Carnegie

  Men, Made, Fortune

  Andrew Carnegie (1992). “The Andrew Carnegie reader”, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

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• Always buy your straw hats in the Winter

  Benjamin Graham

  Winter, Hats, Straws

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• It is not the return on my investment that I am concerned about; it's the return of my investment

  Will Rogers

  Return, Investment, Concerned

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