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I helped Ben with the third edition of Security Analysis, published in 1951.

I just keep investing in the future, and I haven't reached the point where I'm not doing that.

I knew a lot about what I did when I was 20. I had read a lot, and I aspired to learn everything I could about the subject.

I liked the results of the profits in the markets.

I'll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

Index funds do not trade from security to security and, thus, they tend to avoid capital gains taxes.

Imagine if you borrowed your parents' car without permission and ran it into a tree, how much better you'd feel if you were incorporated.

I'm always fully invested. It's a great feeling to be caught with your pants up.

I'm investing in myself, I'm investing in others and I'm investing in my cause. I know if I persist it will pay back in dividends and it always does.

Inactivity strikes us as intelligent behavior.

In an ideal world, the intelligent investor would hold stocks only when they are cheap and sell them when they become overpriced, then duck into the bunker of bonds and cash until stocks again become cheap enough to buy.

Impact investing can be a powerful instrument of change.

In almost every walk of life, people buy more at lower prices; in the stock market they seem to buy more at higher prices.

In business we often find that the winning system goes almost ridiculously far in maximizing and or minimizing one or a few variables - like the discount warehouses of Costco.

Index funds are the only rational alternative for almost all mutual fund investors.

Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains.

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

In every mutual fund prospectus, in every sales promotional folder, and in every mutual fund advertisement (albeit in print almost too small to read), the following warning appears: "Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

Index funds have regularly produced rates of return exceeding those of active managers by close to 2 percentage points. Active management as a whole cannot achieve gross returns exceeding the market as a while and therefore they must, on average, underperform the indexes by the amount of these expense and transaction costs disadvantages.

Index investing is an investment strategy that Walter Mitty would love. It takes very little investment knowledge, no skill, practically no time or effort-and outperforms about 80 percent of all investors.

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.

Instead of investing in the goods as they pass between producer and consumer, as the merchant does, the businessman now invests in the processes of industry.

In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.

In our society, it's been the men who've handled most of the finances, and the women who've stood by and watched men botch things up.

In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a speculative undertaking.

Instead of hoping he must fear and instead of fearing he must hope. He must fear that his loss may develop into a much bigger loss, and hope that his profit may become a big profit.

In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard.

In most bull markets there comes a time when the public controls fluctuations and the efforts of the largest operators are insufficient to check the rising tide.

In order to be a really good investor, you need to be a little bit of a philosopher as well.

Interestingly, we have beaten the market quite handsomely over this time frame, although beating the market has never been our objective. Rather, we have consistently tried not to lose money and, in doing so, have not only protected on the downside but also outperformed on the upside.

In the case of a meltdown, the regulatory authorities may find themselves obliged to step in to preserve the integrity of the system. It is in that light that the authorities have both a right and an obligation to supervise and regulate derivative instruments.

In the end, alchemy, whether it is metallurgical or financial, fails. A base business can not be transformed into a golden business by tricks of accounting or capital structure. The man claiming to be a financial alchemist may become rich. But gullible investors rather than business achievements will usually be the source of his wealth.

In the financial world it tends to be misleading to state, "There is no free lunch." Rather the more meaningful comment is, "Somebody has to pay for lunch.

In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and emotional impossibility.

In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.

In the long run, a portfolio of well chosen stocks and/or equity mutual funds will always outperform a portfolio of bonds or a money-market account. In the long run, a portfolio of poorly chosen stocks won't outperform the money left under the mattress.

In the long run, investing is not about markets at all. Investing is about enjoying the returns earned by businesses.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

Investing in early childhood nutrition is a surefire strategy. The returns are incredibly high.

Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.

Investing in our people is going to be costly and scarce - we need to start doing that!

Investing is far more cumulative [than chess]. So long as you're sharp, you can do it for as long as you want.

Investing solely for 'income,' investing merely 'to keep capital employed,' and investing simply 'to hedge against inflation' are all entirely out of the question.

Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.

Investing in women is not only the right thing to do, but also the smart thing to do.

Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you've got talents, no one can take them from you.

Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes.

Investing requires qualities of temperament way more than it requires qualities of intellect.

Investors have very short memories