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I want to invest in research. Research is great. Providing funding to universities and think tanks is great. But investing in companies? Absolutely not.

I was in Graham's office the day he bought GEICO. Warren owns one-third of the stock today.

I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.

Know what you own, and know why you own it.

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.

Knowing nothing about investing might be a benefit. You won't have to unlearn many popular beliefs propagated by Wall Street and the media that aren't true.

Lethargy, bordering on sloth should remain the cornerstone of an investment style.

Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.

Let's hope brands recognize that the true power of this technology is not its reach but its ability to communicate substance that adds meaning to our lives. Otherwise, brands will be investing in technology that consumers simply won't buy.

Look for companies with high profit margins.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

Look at companies selling at new lows.

Losing some money is an inevitable part of investing, and there's nothing you can do to prevent it. But to be an intelligent investor, you must take responsibility for ensuring that you never lose most or all of your money.

Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that "Price is what you pay; value is what you get." Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

Managed funds are astonishingly tax-inefficient.

Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.

Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph.

Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test. The main difference is that the hypothesis that underlies an investment decision is intended to make money and not to establish a universally valid generalization.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Many of the biggest and most far-reaching investments we make in our lives are investments that have little or nothing to do with money.

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

Many the wonders but nothing walks stranger than man.

More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing.

Mathematics is ordinarily considered as producing precise and dependable results; but in the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics the more uncertain and speculative are the conclusions we draw there from. Whenever calculus is brought in, or higher algebra, you could take it as a warning that the operator was trying to substitute theory for experience, and usually also to give to speculation the deceptive guise of investment.

Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense.

Most active mutual funds are more interested in collecting fees than in boosting returns for investors.

More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don't is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively

Most investors are primarily oriented toward return, how much they can make and pay little attention to risk, how much they can lose.

Most investors want to do today what they should have done yesterday.

Most of the mutual fund investments I have are index funds, approximately 75%.

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

Mr. Market does not always price stocks the way an appraiser or a private buyer would value a business. Instead, when stocks are going up, he happily pays more than their objective value; and, when they are going down, he is desperate to dump them for less than their true worth.

Move only when you have an advantage. It's very basic. You have to understand the odds and have the discipline to bet only when the odds are in your favor.

Most people might just as well buy a share of the whole market, which pools all the information, than delude themselves into thinking they know something the market doesn't.

Most successful investors, in fact, do nothing most of the time.

Never invest in a business you can't understand

Mutual fund manager performance does not persist and the return of stock picking is zero.

Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country's advantage at variance with its neighbours' as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.

Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new. Make it your goal to be better each and every day, in some small way. Remember the Japanese concept of Kaizen. Small daily improvements eventually result in huge advantages.

Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks.

My high-tech aversion caused me to make fun of the typical biotech enterprise: $100 million in cash from selling shares, one hundred Ph.D.'s, 99 microscopes, and zero revenues.

My job was to find stocks that were undervalued.

Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon

Never mingle your speculative and investment operations in the same account nor in any part of your thinking.

Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new.

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

No economic measure has more value for a nation than investing in a clean & sustainable low carbon future

Nobody wants to be passive; indexing is not passive - much more goes into indexing than watching a stock become the next buggy whip.

Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget.