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Economics exists to make astrology look respectable.

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.

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.

Fear and greed tend to affect one's judgement.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.

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

Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.

Graham liked the idea of protection on the downside.

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

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.

He who is greedy is always in want.

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.

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 that is overcautious will accomplish little.

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.

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.

High valuations entail high risks.

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

History doesn't crawl; it leaps.

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

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

I am for maximum supervision and minimum regulation.

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

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