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I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

I have no idea on timing. It’s easier to tell what will happen than when it will happen. I would say that what is going on in terms of trade policy is going to have very important consequences.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Inactivity strikes us as intelligent behavior.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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 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 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 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 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.

In trading/ investing it's not about how much you make, but how much you don't lose

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.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

Investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. It will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you.

Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.

Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date.

Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future.

Investing now in safe-guarding people by helping them to adapt to climate change, will help save money and lives while building resilience.

Investing today may well be harder than it has been at any time in our three decades of existence.

Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.

Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.