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There are no good or bad stocks. The company is either good or bad. Stocks are just stocks.

The term bellwether refers to the practice of placing a bell around the neck of a castrated ram (a wether) leading his flock of sheep. While out of sight, the sound of the bell is a directive on the whereabouts of the flock. When earning season begins, the bellwether stock is that of the largest (typically industrial) companies who report their earnings. Analysts look to these reports as an indication of how subsequent reports will come in under or over expectations.

There is probably no worse investment strategy than following the conventional wisdom with a time-lag, and that is precisely what many small investors do - often with the encouragement of their advisers.

...the stock market is the best wealth-building vehicle that exists today for the average American. Hell, for most if not all Americans!

The U.S. stock market was now a class system, rooted in speed, of haves and have-nots. The haves paid for nanoseconds; the have-nots had no idea that nanoseconds had value. The haves enjoyed a perfect view of the market; the have-nots never saw the market at all.

To live a bigger life, you need to learn how to be a bigger human being.

Three simple rules - pay less, diversify more and be contrarian - will serve almost everyone well.

To discern profits only when it is within the ken of the market herd is not the acme of investing excellence

Understanding the value of a security and whether it's trading above or below that value is the difference between investing and speculating.

To win the lottery once may be evidence of luck or skill; to win it repeatedly is evidence of skill.

Trying to pick the stocks that outperform the average is like trying to find a needle in a haystack.

We need to start to talk about money in ways that dethrone it and make it subject to human ethics and standards of love and decency.

Volatility in the up direction is not a problem-it's only downward volatility that offers discourse.

We need a moderately-priced stock market… The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But, unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do. For the investor, a too-high purchase price for the stock of an excellent company can undo the effects of a subsequent decade of favorable business developments.

Unless we keep the dollars we receive as salary under the pillow, we undertake some form of investing.

Value investing was once the purchase of tangible assets at levels below their market value. Value investing today is buying sustainable competitive advantages at a good price.

We can't all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the pie.

Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of earnings that is not reportable by us under standard accounting principles than to purchase $1 of earnings that is reportable.

We usually save money to waste it.

When investing, more effort means worse results, most of the time.

You don't need to chase wealth, just become a real entrepreneur and the world is your oyster.

Your assets are your employees. Invest more on those performing well. Let the non performers go.

You should RULE your money, Money shouldn't RULE your Life.

A banker is somebody who lends you an umbrella & takes it away as soon as it starts raining.

A cell is a complex structure, with its investing membrane, nucleus, and nucleolus.

Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.

Active management is little more than a gigantic con game.

A constant in my approach to investing: You should think politically but unconventionally.

A Financial Research Corporation study determined that the expense ratio is the only reliable predictor of future mutual fund performance.

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

A global economy is characterized not only by the free movement of goods and services but, more important, by the free movement of ideas and of capital.

A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?

A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.

All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.

All jobs are created in direct proportion to the amount of capital employed.

All sensible investing is value investing

All things flow, nothing abides. You cannot step into the same river twice, for the waters are continually flowing on. Nothing is permanent except change.

All the publicity about value investing - it's become a very popular thing.

All the research shows that investing in women is a good investment

Almost every aspect of its (Federal Reserve) history should be approached with a discriminating disregard for what is commonly taught or believed.

Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.

A lot of companies have lots of assets tied up in plant and equipment. Well, is it old plant, or is it new plant?

A minuscule 4 percent of funds produce market-beating after-tax results with a scant 0.6 percent (annual) margin of gain. The 96 percent of funds that fail to meet or beat the Vanguard 500 Index Fund lose by a wealth-destroying margin of 4.8 percent per annum.

Always consider investing in a grade-A man with a grade-B idea. Never invest in a grade-B man with a grade-A idea.

Always buy your straw hats in the Winter

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

A nation's exchange rate is the single most important price in its economy; it will influence the entire range of individual prices, imports and exports, and even the level of economic activity. So it is hard for any government to ignore large swings in its exchange rate.

And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgment, on art, on a feel for financial markets.

An intelligent investor gets satisfaction from the thought that his operations are exactly opposite to those of the crowd.