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It seems like for the last 10 years, I've just been investing in the future.

It's human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation (particularly if you're the lucky manager).

It's hard to find ideas that aren't picked over and harder to get real returns and differentiate yourself. We are entering a new environment. The days of big returns are gone.

... it's important to have the right monetary policy. It's important for, to have the right fiscal policy. But it's nowhere near as important as just the normal regenerative capacity of American capitalism.

It's not supposed to be easy. Anyone who finds it easy is stupid.

It's much more profitable to sell investing advice than to follow it.

It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong

It's not that stock prices are capricious. It's that the news is capricious.

It's one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment.

It takes character to sit there with all that cash and do nothing. I didn't get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities.

It's nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.

It would be wonderful if we could avoid the setbacks with timely exits, but nobody has figured out how to predict them.

It's like giving up a belief in Santa Claus.

I've always viewed high-frequency trading as a tax on the rest of us.

I’ve learned many things from him [George Soros], but perhaps the most significant is that it’s not whether you’re right or wrong that’s important, but how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong.

I've not found ! one single mutual fund, one single real estate investment, any gold, silver or anything else that has given me higher returns than: me investing in myself.

I've been doing a hybrid of investing and entrepreneurship, which I think initially I wasn't set out to do. But I realized it fit my personality.

I was in Graham's office the day he bought GEICO. Warren owns one-third of the stock today.

I want to invest in research. Research is great. Providing funding to universities and think tanks is great. But investing in companies? Absolutely not.

Knowing nothing about investing might be a benefit. You won't have to unlearn many popular beliefs propagated by Wall Street and the media that aren't true.

I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'

I've felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll or investing on Wall Street. When economics is taught by pure academics, watch out.

I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.

Lethargy, bordering on sloth should remain the cornerstone of an investment style.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Know what you own, and know why you own it.

Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that "Price is what you pay; value is what you get." Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.

Let's hope brands recognize that the true power of this technology is not its reach but its ability to communicate substance that adds meaning to our lives. Otherwise, brands will be investing in technology that consumers simply won't buy.

Look for companies with high profit margins.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

Look at companies selling at new lows.

Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.

Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test. The main difference is that the hypothesis that underlies an investment decision is intended to make money and not to establish a universally valid generalization.

Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Losing some money is an inevitable part of investing, and there's nothing you can do to prevent it. But to be an intelligent investor, you must take responsibility for ensuring that you never lose most or all of your money.

Managed funds are astonishingly tax-inefficient.

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.

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

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.

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

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

Many the wonders but nothing walks stranger than man.

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

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

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

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