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Nearly every time I strayed from the herd, I've made a lot of money. Wandering away from the action is the way to find the new action.

Never invest in any scheme that is based on a metaphor, or anything with the word, “next”, in it (e.g., “this kid is the next Elvis Presley”, “this will be the Lake Lucerne of the Southwest”). You will lose your shirt.

Never trust a stockbroker under the age of 60.

Not money, Not skills, but Time is the biggest lever for massive wealth creation

Old Burmese (now Myanmar) proverb: Burmese proverb: Government is one of the five evils along with fire, floods, thieves and enemies.

One investor's two rules of investing: Never lose money. Never forget rule #1. (Warren Buffett)

Perfection does not mean errorless . Real perfection starts with real intention and ends with delivery, all driven by seeking knowledge, trial & error and investing emotions. Whatever delivered after that is perfect .

Prince Harry and Prince William didn’t buy a castle to live in! They live at Kensington Palace. Why do we have such unrealistic expectations of Millennials in America?

put time on your side. Start saving early and save regularly. Live modestly and don't touch the money that's been set aside.

Professional investment may be likened to those newspaper competitions in which the competitors have to pick out the six prettiest faces from a hundred photographs, the prize being awarded to the competitor whose choice most nearly corresponds to the average preferences of the competitors as a whole; so that teach competitor has to pick not those faces which he himself finds prettiest, but those which he thinks likeliest to catch the fancy of the other competitors, all of whom are looking at the problem from the same point of view. It is not a case of choosing those which, to the best of one's judgement are really the prettiest, nor even those which average opinion genuinely thinks the prettiest. We have reached the third degree where we devote our intelligences to anticipating what average opinion expects the average opinion to be. And there are some, I believe, who practice the fourth, fifth and higher degrees.

Real estate is attractive because it leads people closer to financial independence—the ability to live life on one’s own terms, rather than simply earning enough to pay bills and survive.

Real estate investing can make you wealthy, and it can make you wealthy faster than any other investment out there, if you are willing to work toward it. And that’s the key: work.

Real estate is a people game, not a house game.

Reliability investing requires finding companies trading below their inherent worth--stocks with strong fundamentals including earnings, dividends, book value, and cash flow selling at bargain prices give their quality.

Saving is a great habit but without investing and tracking, it just sleeps

Our primary objective in every mortgage transaction should be to borrow in a way that reduces debt, improves financial stability, and helps us get debt free in as short a time as possible!

Remember the story of the tortoise and the hare? While many investors have ‘sprinted’ toward their investment goals, success is most often found by consistent action, not big action.

Some people will each start investing more of their salary on ‘their’ house and spending less of it on ‘their’ car or cars only when they start being able to take ‘their’ house to work, funerals, weddings, etc.

Smart Risk will shatter the emotional myths to investing and help Canadians see the opportunities in today's volatile market.

Some people plan on being disciplined as soon as they achieve something that cannot be achieved without discipline.

Successful companies are built by investing lare amount of money and hundreds of litres of sweat.

Successful companies are built by investing large amount of money and hundreds of litres of sweat.

Some things are good for our image but bad for our pockets.

The alluring, long-shot chance of a huge gain is the grease that lubricates the machine of innovation.

The four most expensive word in the English language are 'This time it's different.

The mismanagement of money makes many overpaid people seem underpaid.

The indignation school of writers never tires of pointing out the millions that are stolen in the Street. But while the millions are being stolen, the billions are being lost. Nothing crooked—just bad luck and bad brains met together in an effort to do something that couldn’t be done in the first place.

The most popular investing products are the worst ones for investors.

The notion, a debatable one, is that the man who knows the problems necessarily knows the answers. This book has not been successful if it has not suggested some big-league problems, such as: (1) Should our financial machinery be scrapped? (2) Should it be further tinkered with, and if so, how much further? (3) Is capitalism doomed? (4) What active stock selling under five dollars looks hot just now for a quick turn to pay for the Buick the wife just bought? There isn’t an assistant instructor in economics in any faculty who can’t answer these and similar questions rapidly and categorically, and if that is not enough there are a million laymen eager to do so. So I don’t feel that my vote is much needed.

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.

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

...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.

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

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.

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

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

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

The greater the passive income you can build, the freer you will become.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

We usually save money to waste it.

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

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.