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Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing.

Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.

Diversification is your buddy.

Diversification is something that stock brokers came up with to protect themselves, so they wouldn't get sued for making bad investment choices for clients. Henry Ford never diversified, Bill Gates didn't diversify. The way to get rich is to put your eggs in one basket, but watch that basket very carefully. And make sure you have the right basket.

Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth.

Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems.

Diversification is a surrogate - and a damn poor surrogate - for knowledge, elements of control, and priceconsciousness.

Diversify your investments.

Does management resist the institutional imperative?

Does the business have favourable long term prospects?

Does the business have a consistent operating history?

Don't be afraid to be a loner but be sure that you are correct in your judgement.

Don't be in too much of a hurry to sell.

Don't sell on bad news.

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition.

Economic tough times are great times to be investing in the future.

Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the participant in the economic process, lacks objectivity.

Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research.

Even defensive portfolios should be changed from time to time, especially if the securities purchased have an apparently excessive advance and can be replaced by issues much more reasonable priced.

Everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it and get it incorporated into prices.

Economics exists to make astrology look respectable.

Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.

Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence.

Famed value investor Guy Spier has managed to write what is both a gripping memoir and a fascinating study of what it takes to succeed in investing and life. A must read!

Fear and greed tend to affect one's judgement.

Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.

First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots.

Forsake search for needles that are so very small in haystacks that are so very large.

For me it's all about keeping things simple and feeling comfortable in what I am wearing. I prefer investing in classic well-tailored pieces.

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

For instance with regard to tourism, that we should be able to target people who are interested in investing in the tourism sector and explain that this is the size of the market, these are the incentives in this particular area, this is the capacity, this is what is needed.

Generally speaking, investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. Anything that improves your own talents; nobody can tax it or take it away from you. They can run up huge deficits and the dollar can become worth far less. You can have all kinds of things happen. But if you’ve got talent yourself, and you’ve maximized your talent, you’ve got a tremendous asset that can return ten-fold.

Fund investors are confident that they can easily select superior fund managers. They are wrong.

Generally, the greater the stigma or revulsion, the better the bargain.

Graham liked the idea of protection on the downside.

Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half of your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of it.

Getting an unsophisticated client was the golden prize. The quickest way to make money on Wall Street is to take the most sophisticated product and try to sell it to the least sophisticated client.

Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.

Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Globalization has rendered the world increasingly interdependent, but international politics is still based on the sovereignty of states.

Having a tax code that rewards companies that are shipping jobs overseas instead of companies that are investing here in the United States, that will not make us more competitive.

Happiness worth having is the warm glow that comes from investing ourselves in the world around us, come what may. It cannot be passively consumed or gulped down like a sugary drink. Happiness must be created by own ingenuity.

Have a philosophy of investment and try to follow it.

Having fallen from the eternal, the Evil One's desires are endless, insatiable. Having fallen from pure Being, he is driven by the desire to possess, to fill his emptiness. But the problem is insoluble, always. He is compelled to have and to hold, to possess and consume, and nothing else. All he takes, he destroys.