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Many of the biggest and most far-reaching investments we make in our lives are investments that have little or nothing to do with money.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Many the wonders but nothing walks stranger than man.

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

Mathematics is ordinarily considered as producing precise and dependable results; but in the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics the more uncertain and speculative are the conclusions we draw there from. Whenever calculus is brought in, or higher algebra, you could take it as a warning that the operator was trying to substitute theory for experience, and usually also to give to speculation the deceptive guise of investment.

Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense.

More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don't is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively

More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing.

Most active mutual funds are more interested in collecting fees than in boosting returns for investors.

Most people might just as well buy a share of the whole market, which pools all the information, than delude themselves into thinking they know something the market doesn't.

Most of the mutual fund investments I have are index funds, approximately 75%.

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

Most successful investors, in fact, do nothing most of the time.

Most investors are primarily oriented toward return, how much they can make and pay little attention to risk, how much they can lose.

Most investors want to do today what they should have done yesterday.

Move only when you have an advantage. It's very basic. You have to understand the odds and have the discipline to bet only when the odds are in your favor.

Mr. Market does not always price stocks the way an appraiser or a private buyer would value a business. Instead, when stocks are going up, he happily pays more than their objective value; and, when they are going down, he is desperate to dump them for less than their true worth.

Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks.

Mutual fund manager performance does not persist and the return of stock picking is zero.

My high-tech aversion caused me to make fun of the typical biotech enterprise: $100 million in cash from selling shares, one hundred Ph.D.'s, 99 microscopes, and zero revenues.

Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon

Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country's advantage at variance with its neighbours' as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.

Never mingle your speculative and investment operations in the same account nor in any part of your thinking.

Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new. Make it your goal to be better each and every day, in some small way. Remember the Japanese concept of Kaizen. Small daily improvements eventually result in huge advantages.

My job was to find stocks that were undervalued.

Never invest in a business you can't understand

Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new.

No economic measure has more value for a nation than investing in a clean & sustainable low carbon future

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

Nobody wants to be passive; indexing is not passive - much more goes into indexing than watching a stock become the next buggy whip.

Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public.

Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

No statement is more true and better applicable to Wall Street than the famous warning of Santayana: "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it".

Nothing important on Wall Street can be counted on to occur exactly in the same way as it happened before.

Now, you'll have to answer my questions." "Oh, very well," Set said. "I like Brazil for the World Cup. I'd advise investing in platinum and small-cap funds. And your lucky numbers this week are 2, 13--" "Not those questions!" Menshikov snapped.

Now is always the hardest time to invest.

Not only does investing in your infrastructure provide very good construction jobs, at the end of the project, you have something.

"Now you can trade the S&P 500 Index in real time" was the slogan in the newspapers for the first ETF. What kind of nut would do that?

Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.

Occasions when you can change your mind should be cherished, because they mean you're smarter than you were before.

one of the greatest deterrents to successful investing is the three-letter word ego.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

On average, 90 percent of the variability of returns and 100 percent of the absolute level of return is explained by asset allocation.

Once public opinion is convinced that the increase in the quantity of money will continue and never come to an end, and that consequently the prices of all commodities will not cease to rise, everybody becomes eager to buy as much as possible and restrict his cash holdings to minimum size... If the credit expansion is not stopped in time, the boom turns to crack-up boom: the flight into real values begins, and the whole monetary system founders.

One doesn't like instabilities in markets; they may be damaging, but probably not fatal, as the October '87 crash showed. It turned out to be essentially inconsequential. So if that's true, I'm not very worried about the welfare of those who are investing any more than I am about the welfare of those who go into casinos.

One of the best rules anybody can learn about investing is to do nothing, absolutely nothing, unless there is something to do... I just wait until there is money lying in the corner, and all I have to do is go over there and pick it up... I wait for a situation that is like the proverbial "shooting fish in a barrel.

One of the ironies of the stock market is the emphasis on activity. Brokers, using terms such as 'marketability' and 'liquidity,' sing the praises of companies with high share turnover... but investors should understand that what is good for the croupier is not good for the customer. A hyperactive stock market is the pick pocket of enterprise.

Of one thing the investor can be certain: A large company's need to bring in a new chief executive from the outside is a damning sign of something basically wrong with the existing management - no matter how good the surface signs may have been as indicated by the most recent earnings statement.