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Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.

Graham liked the idea of protection on the downside.

Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Happiness worth having is the warm glow that comes from investing ourselves in the world around us, come what may. It cannot be passively consumed or gulped down like a sugary drink. Happiness must be created by own ingenuity.

Have a philosophy of investment and try to follow it.

Having a tax code that rewards companies that are shipping jobs overseas instead of companies that are investing here in the United States, that will not make us more competitive.

Having fallen from the eternal, the Evil One's desires are endless, insatiable. Having fallen from pure Being, he is driven by the desire to possess, to fill his emptiness. But the problem is insoluble, always. He is compelled to have and to hold, to possess and consume, and nothing else. All he takes, he destroys.

He really meant to tell them that the big money was not in the individual fluctuations but in the main movements that is, not in reading the tape but in sizing up the entire market and its trend.

Here's one truth that perhaps your typical investment counselor would disagree with: if you're comfortably rich and someone else is getting richer faster than you by, for example, investing in risky stocks, so what?! Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

He who is greedy is always in want.

Hint: money flows into most funds after good performance, and goes out when bad performance follows.

High valuations entail high risks.

History doesn't crawl; it leaps.

I am for maximum supervision and minimum regulation.

I always felt very secure and very safe with real estate. Real estate always appreciates.

I am not criticizing investing in the stock market; I am an investor.

I am investing like a crazy person, mostly in internet start-ups. And I want to invest in Brazil as well, because I am Brazilian and that's in my heart.

I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.

"I can't sleep" answered the nervous one. "Why not?" asked the friend. "I am carrying so much cotton that I can't sleep thinking about. It is wearing me out. What can I do?" "Sell down to the sleeping point", answered the friend.

I believe the only things that really matter in investing are the bubbles and the busts

I don't have a ticker-tape machine in my office.

I’d compare stock pickers to astrologers but I don’t want to bad mouth astrologers.

I don't know whether I make myself plain, but I never lose my temper over the stock market. I never argue with the tape. Getting sore at the market doesn't get you anywhere.

I don't read economic forecasts. I don't read the funny papers.

I don't think the Federal Reserve has any role in how high rates are right now. I don't understand why everyone is paying attention to this tapering. The Fed is using one kind of bond to buy another kind of bond. What's the big deal, and why is anyone taking the Fed seriously?

I don't want a lot of good investments; I want a few outstanding ones.

I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, in business, so is a number.

If anybody laughs at your idea, view it as a sign of potential success!

I favour passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.

If Bill Gates woke up with Oprah's money he'd jump out the window.

If I were investing in oil and gas stocks, there is one question I would ask CEO's: What portion of your capital is going to have to go in to stay even

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

If I'd only followed CNBC's advice, I'd have a million dollars today. Provided I'd started with a hundred million dollars.

I find it helpful to buy near the low of the last few years.

If, instead of playing the horses, an individual chooses to play the market, that is his own affair. Only he must understand that speculating in stocks is gambling, not investing.

If it's obvious, it's obviously wrong.

If given a choice between investing in someone who has read REWORK or has an MBA, I’m investing in REWORK every time. A must read for every entrepreneur.

"If I buy stocks on Smith's tip I must sell those same stocks on Smith's tip. I am depending on him. Suppose Smith is away on a holiday when the selling time comes around?

If I have any claim to originality, I do it by investing my own personality into it, so it's coming from a slightly more sardonic, English point of view.

I find it more enjoyable investing time doing what pleases me, rather than wasting precious time attempting to please everyone else.

If only one word is to be used to describe what Baupost does, that word should be: 'Mispricing'. We look for mispricing due to over-reaction.

If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.

If some lose their whole fortunes, they will drag many more down with them . . . believe me that the whole system of credit and finance which is carried on here at Rome in the Forum, is inextricably bound up with the revenues of the Asiatic province. If Those revenues are destroyed, our whole system of credit will come down with a crash.

If the growth rate is so good that in another ten years the company might well have quadrupled, is it really of such great concern whether at the moment the stock might or might not be 35% overpriced?

If the data do not prove that indexing wins, well, the data are wrong.

If the market is so cheap, you want to get something with a little more zip in it, or potential.

If users are not doing what the designer intended (when users are investing time, effort, etc in your product), the designer may be asking them to do too much.