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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 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 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!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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 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.

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them.

If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one's conceptions and what one does about them. Life can be seen as a fertile fallacy.

If you can't find any companies that you think are attractive, put your money in the bank until you discover some.

If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.

If you can eliminate the government as a 39.6% partner, then you will be much better off.

If you expect to continue to purchase stocks throughout your life, you should welcome price declines as a way to add stocks more cheaply to your portfolio.

If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.

If you hope to have more money tomorrow than you have today, you've got to put a chunk of your assets into stocks. Sooner or later, a portfolio of stocks or stock mutual funds will turn out to be a lot more valuable than a portfolio of bonds or CDs or money-market funds.

If you have more than 120 or 130 I.Q. points, you can afford to give the rest away. You don't need extraordinary intelligence to succeed as an investor.

If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.

If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.

If you roll dice, you know that the odds are one in six that the dice will come up on a particular side. So you can calculate the risk. But, in the stock market, such computations are bull - you don't even know how many sides the dice have!

If you're not working to get your business or investing operation to operate without you, you're thinking too small. Think team and systems.

If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions.

If you're lucky enough to have been rewarded in life to the degree that I have, there comes a point at which you have to decide whether to become a slave to your net worth by devoting the rest of your life to increasing it or to let what you've accumulated begin to serve you.

If your fund doesn't last for the long term, how can you invest for the long term?

If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.

If you want to have a lasting influence upon the world, you must invest in people's lives; and if you want to maximize that investment, then you must invest in those people while they are young.

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.

I have a 41-year track record of investing excellence… what do you have?

I have become increasingly convinced that the past records of mutual fund managers are essentially worthless in predicting future success. The few examples of consistently superior performance occur no more frequently than can be expected by chance.

I have been around a long time and Wall Street has changed a lot.