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

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.

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

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.

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

Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.

Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.

Graham liked the idea of protection on the downside.

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.

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

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

Have a philosophy of investment and try to follow it.

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.

Here's one truth that perhaps your typical investment counselor would disagree with: if you're comfortably rich and someone else is getting richer faster than you by, for example, investing in risky stocks, so what?! Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

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.

He really meant to tell them that the big money was not in the individual fluctuations but in the main movements that is, not in reading the tape but in sizing up the entire market and its trend.

He who is greedy is always in want.

High valuations entail high risks.

I am investing like a crazy person, mostly in internet start-ups. And I want to invest in Brazil as well, because I am Brazilian and that's in my heart.

I am for maximum supervision and minimum regulation.

Hint: money flows into most funds after good performance, and goes out when bad performance follows.

History doesn't crawl; it leaps.

I always felt very secure and very safe with real estate. Real estate always appreciates.

I am not criticizing investing in the stock market; I am an investor.

I believe the only things that really matter in investing are the bubbles and the busts

I’d compare stock pickers to astrologers but I don’t want to bad mouth astrologers.

"I can't sleep" answered the nervous one. "Why not?" asked the friend. "I am carrying so much cotton that I can't sleep thinking about. It is wearing me out. What can I do?" "Sell down to the sleeping point", answered the friend.

I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.

I don't know whether I make myself plain, but I never lose my temper over the stock market. I never argue with the tape. Getting sore at the market doesn't get you anywhere.

I don't have a ticker-tape machine in my office.

I don't read economic forecasts. I don't read the funny papers.

I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.

I don't think the Federal Reserve has any role in how high rates are right now. I don't understand why everyone is paying attention to this tapering. The Fed is using one kind of bond to buy another kind of bond. What's the big deal, and why is anyone taking the Fed seriously?

I don't want a lot of good investments; I want a few outstanding ones.

If anybody laughs at your idea, view it as a sign of potential success!

I favour passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, in business, so is a number.

If Bill Gates woke up with Oprah's money he'd jump out the window.

"If I buy stocks on Smith's tip I must sell those same stocks on Smith's tip. I am depending on him. Suppose Smith is away on a holiday when the selling time comes around?

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

If given a choice between investing in someone who has read REWORK or has an MBA, I’m investing in REWORK every time. A must read for every entrepreneur.

If it's obvious, it's obviously wrong.

I find it more enjoyable investing time doing what pleases me, rather than wasting precious time attempting to please everyone else.

If I'd only followed CNBC's advice, I'd have a million dollars today. Provided I'd started with a hundred million dollars.

If I have any claim to originality, I do it by investing my own personality into it, so it's coming from a slightly more sardonic, English point of view.

I find it helpful to buy near the low of the last few years.

If, instead of playing the horses, an individual chooses to play the market, that is his own affair. Only he must understand that speculating in stocks is gambling, not investing.

If I were investing in oil and gas stocks, there is one question I would ask CEO's: What portion of your capital is going to have to go in to stay even

If only one word is to be used to describe what Baupost does, that word should be: 'Mispricing'. We look for mispricing due to over-reaction.