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The only certainty is that there is no certainty.

The only intelligence investing is value investing...to acquire more than one is paying for.

The only preparation for prospering in the global economy is investing in ourselves.

The only product that's worth investing in is a fully functional musculoskeletal system. It's no luxury but rather a basic necessity that's within everyone's reach.

The only ones to get hurt on a roller coaster are the jumpers.

...theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions.

The period of financial distress is a gradual decline after the peak of a speculative bubble that precedes the final and massive panic and crash, driven by the insiders having exited but the sucker outsiders hanging on hoping for a revivial, but finally giving up in the final collapse.

The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.

The price pattern reminds you that every movement of importance is but a repetition of similar price movements, that just as soon as you can familiarize yourself with the actions of the past, you will be able to anticipate and act correctly and profitably upon forthcoming movements.

The purpose of finance is to enable business to acquire the ownership of capital instruments before it has saved the funds to buy and pay for them. The logic used by business in investing is things that will pay for themselves is not today available to the 95% born without capital. Most of us owe instead of own. And the less the economy needs our labor, the less able we are to "save" our way to capital ownership.

There are substantial rewards for adopting a regular routine of investing and following it no matter what, and additional rewards for buying more shares when most investors are scared into selling.

There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.

There are only a few things investors can do to counteract risk: diversify adequately, hedge when appropriate, and invest with a margin of safety. It is a precisely because we do not and cannot know all the risks of an investment that we strive to invest at a discount. The bargain element helps to provide a cushion for when things go wrong.

there are all kinds of wonderful new inventions that give you nothing as owners except the opportunity to spend a lot more money in a business that's still going to be lousy. The money still won't come to you. All of the advantages from great improvements are going to flow through to the customers.

There is no other proposition in economics that has more solid empirical evidence supporting it than the Efficient Market Hypothesis... In the literature of finance, accounting, and the economics of uncertainty, the EMH is accepted as a fact of life.

There are two hedges I know of; one is cash and the other is knowledge.

There is no possibility of failure because you only control your actions and they only influence the probable evolution of your life over stochastic future paths. There is no failure, only feedback.

There are worse situations than drowning in cash and sitting, sitting, sitting. I remember when I wasn’t awash in cash — and I don’t want to go back.

The record of a month's roulette playing at Monte Carlo can afford us material for discussing the foundations of knowledge.

There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification.

There is no reason to feel any shame in hiring someone to pick stocks or mutual funds for you. But there's one responsibility that you must never delegate. You, and no one but you, must investigate whether an adviser is trustworthy and charges reasonable fees.

There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.

There is no such thing as a value trap. There are investing mistakes.

There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.

The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have even more meaning

There is safety in numbers.

There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it

The risk of an investment is described by both the probability and the potential amount of loss. The risk of an investment-the probability of an adverse outcome-is partly inherent in its very nature. A dollar spent on biotechnology research is a riskier investment than a dollar used to purchase utility equipment. The former has both a greater probability of loss and a greater percentage of the investment at stake.

The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth.

The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

The sad truth is that it is precisely those who disagree most with the hypothesis of efficient market pricing of stocks, those who pooh-pooh beta analysis and all that, who are least able to understand the analysis needed to test that hypothesis.

The sillier the market's behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor.

The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.

The single greatest edge an investor can have is a long-term orientation.

The stage of investing that I do is seed stage, so it's really early. Here's a pair of founders who maybe have a prototype. They have a little bit of traction, maybe one employee, tops. At that stage, you really, really can only evaluate a company based on those founders and what they've been able to build. It's very, very team driven.

The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient.

The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don’t have to swing at everything – you can wait for your pitch.

The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.

The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

The stock market resembles a huge laundry in which institutions take in large blocks of each others washing ... without rhyme or reason.

The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones, and the age of oil won’t end because we run out of oil.

The successful investor is usually an individual who is inherently interested in business problems.

The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy.

The surest way to find an actively managed fund that will have top-quartile returns is to look for a fund that has bottom-quartile expenses.

The trick is to take risks and be paid for taking those risks, but to take a diversified basket of risks in a portfolio.

The United States in particular and the West in general should be feeling a little embarrassed about all that lecturing we did to the Third World.

The true investor... will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operation results of his companies.

The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes them trend followers by definition.

The US dollar is our currency but your problem.

The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.