The single greatest edge an investor can have is a long-term orientation.
Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.
The successful investor is usually an individual who is inherently interested in business problems.
Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing
Most investors say "Don't take risks." The rich investor takes risks.
The speculator is not an investor.
Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent.
If you are going to be a great investor, you have to fit the style to who you are.
My biggest prediction for the future is that people are going to start looking after individual investors.
Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.
If you don't want to lose, you should wait for the right opportunity
Time and again, in every market cycle I have witnessed, the extremes of emotion always appear, even among experienced investors. When the world wants to buy only [bonds], you can almost close your eyes and [buy] stocks.
By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.
Nothing in finance is more fatuous and harmful, in our opinion, than the firmly established attitude of common stock investors regarding questions of corporate management. That attitude is summed up in the phrase: "If you don't like the management, sell your stock." ... The public owners seem to have abdicated all claim to control over the paid superintendents of their property.
Billionaire investors know they're going to be wrong, so they have a plan to protect against wrong.
Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy.
I’ve learned many things from him [George Soros], but perhaps the most significant is that it’s not whether you’re right or wrong that’s important, but how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong.
For all long-term investors, there is only one objective-maximum total real return after taxes.
Employees pay the highest percentage of taxes. Big business and investors pay the least.
The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.
It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.
Stock prices are likely to be among the prices that are relatively vulnerable to purely social movements because there is no accepted theory by which to understand the worth of stocks....investors have no model or at best a very incomplete model of behavior of prices, dividend, or earnings, of speculative assets.
Graham's wonderful sentence as, an investor needs only two things: cash and courage. Having only one of them is not enough.
The American economy is going to do fine. But it won't do fine every year and every week and every month. I mean, if you don't believe that, forget about buying stocks anyway... It's a positive-sum game, long term. And the only way an investor can get killed is by high fees or by trying to outsmart the market.
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