Investing Quotes - Page 4

• Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

  Warren Buffett

  Mass Destruction, Weapons, Buffets

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.78, John Wiley & Sons

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• Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

  Warren Buffett

  Success, Business, Why Not

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• Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Broken Heart, Faith

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.172, John Wiley & Sons

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• Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Safety, Challenges

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

  Warren Buffett

  Funny, Success, Money

  "Rules That Warren Buffett Lives By". Yahoo Finance, February 23, 2010.

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• Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Time, Money

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• Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator.

  Seth Klarman

  Intelligent, Calculators, Streaks

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• Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

  Sigmund Freud

  Happiness, Being Happy, Wisdom

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.17, Courier Dover Publications

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• Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing.

  Warren Buffett

  Ignorance, Littles, Protection

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• You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investment Success, Games

  "Warren Buffett Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Investor". Book by Janet Lowe, 1997.

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• Value investing is the discipline of buying shares at a significant discount from their current underlying values and holding them until more of their value is realised. The element of a bargain is the key to the process.

  Seth Klarman

  Keys, Discipline, Elements

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• For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

  George Santayana

  Fashion, Ideas, Ominous

  1913 Winds of Doctrine,'Modernism and Christianity'.

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• All intelligent investing is value investing - acquiring more that you are paying for. You must value the business in order to value the stock.

  Charlie Munger

  Intelligent, Order, Values

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• When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Market Risk, Buffets

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.151, John Wiley & Sons

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• We've used derivatives for many, many years. I don't think derivatives are evil, per se, I think they are dangerous.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Years, Evil

  "Oracle Of Omaha Says President Obama Must Step Up". Interview with Paul Tharp, www.nypost.com. March 10, 2009.

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• We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, War, Management

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.153, John Wiley & Sons

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• When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in short, being fooled by randomness.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Return, Portfolios, Investment

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• Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Optimism, Arithmetic

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• An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes.

  Warren Buffett

  Mistake, Long, Needs

  "3 Insights on The Future from Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger" by Taylor Pearson, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2016.

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• In most bull markets there comes a time when the public controls fluctuations and the efforts of the largest operators are insufficient to check the rising tide.

  Charles Dow

  Effort, Rising, Bulls

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• The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investing Money, Tables

  "Homespun Wisdom from the 'Oracle of Omaha' Businessweek". July 5, 1999.

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• Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

  Warren Buffett

  Saving, Geek, Investment

  "In Letter, Warren Buffett Concedes a Tough Year" by David Segal, www.nytimes.com. February 28, 2009.

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• We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I continue to believe that short-term market forecasts are poison and should be kept locked up in a safe place, away from children and also from grown-ups who behave in the market like children.

  Warren Buffett

  Children, Believe, Long

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.165, John Wiley & Sons

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• The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, War, School

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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.

  Benjamin Graham

  Money, Mean, Pay

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