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Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

Famed value investor Guy Spier has managed to write what is both a gripping memoir and a fascinating study of what it takes to succeed in investing and life. A must read!

Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence.

Fear and greed tend to affect one's judgement.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.

First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.

First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots.

For instance with regard to tourism, that we should be able to target people who are interested in investing in the tourism sector and explain that this is the size of the market, these are the incentives in this particular area, this is the capacity, this is what is needed.

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

Graham liked the idea of protection on the downside.

For me it's all about keeping things simple and feeling comfortable in what I am wearing. I prefer investing in classic well-tailored pieces.

Forsake search for needles that are so very small in haystacks that are so very large.

Fund investors are confident that they can easily select superior fund managers. They are wrong.

Generally, the greater the stigma or revulsion, the better the bargain.

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

Generally speaking, investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. Anything that improves your own talents; nobody can tax it or take it away from you. They can run up huge deficits and the dollar can become worth far less. You can have all kinds of things happen. But if you’ve got talent yourself, and you’ve maximized your talent, you’ve got a tremendous asset that can return ten-fold.

Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half of your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of it.

Getting an unsophisticated client was the golden prize. The quickest way to make money on Wall Street is to take the most sophisticated product and try to sell it to the least sophisticated client.

Globalization has rendered the world increasingly interdependent, but international politics is still based on the sovereignty of states.

Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.

Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 that is overcautious will accomplish little.

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

He who is greedy is always in want.

High valuations entail high risks.

History doesn't crawl; it leaps.

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

I am for maximum supervision and minimum regulation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.

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

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

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.