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Building your own business is the best way to become rich. Then you can begin investing in other assets.

Bull markets are born on pessimism, grown on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy, and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell.

Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.

Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

But whatever the consensus on the EMH, I know of no serious academic, professional money manager, trained security analyst, or intelligent individual investor who would disagree with the thrust of EMH: The stock market itself is a demanding taskmaster. It sets a high hurdle that few investors can leap.

But when that information travels only to a privileged few, when it is used to profit at the expense of the investing public, when that information comes by way of favored access rather than by acumen, insight or diligence, we must ask, 'Whose interest is really being served?'.

Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.

Buy stocks where the outlook is not good.

By focusing on teaching businesses about the ROI they can achieve by preserving and investing in nature, you're expanding the scope of the impact you can have.

By investing at a discount, Benjamin Graham knew that he was unlikely to experience losses.

By loving yourself, you're going to be a happy person. A lot of people don't like themselves for whatever reason.

By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow.

By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.

By refusing to pay too much for an investment, you minimize the chances that your wealth will ever disappear or suddenly be destroyed.

Calculate "owner earnings" to get a true reflection of value.

China is doing lots of things right. It's investing in education and R&D, it's opening up, it's more cosmopolitan than it's ever been. I think it's very likely that China will continue to explode economically and certainly become a superpower.

Capital will always go where it’s welcome and stay where it’s well treated. Capital is not just money. It’s also talent and ideas. They, too, will go where they’re welcome and stay where they are well treated.

Cash never makes us happy, but it's better to have the money burning a hole in Berkshire's pocket than resting comfortably in someone else's.

China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer to their markets.

Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.

Confidence in a forecast rises with the amount of information that goes into it. But the accuracy of the forecast stays the same.

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.

Confusing speculation with investment is always a mistake.

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

Demanding immediate success invariably leads to playing the fads or fashions currently performing well rather than investing on a solid basis. A course of investment, once charted, should be given time to work out. Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

Democrats are going to proudly run on the fact that we turned the economy around. It was our policies under President Obama's leadership through the Recovery Act, through investing in the automobile industry.

Coronation: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.

Cryptography [without system integrity] is like investing in an armored car to carry money between a customer living in a cardboard box and a person doing business on a park bench.

Debt is always repaid, either by the borrower or by the lender.

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

Diversify your investments.

Does the business have favourable long term prospects?

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

Does management resist the institutional imperative?

Does the business have a consistent operating history?

Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth.

Don't sell on bad news.

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.

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.

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.

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