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The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

The world we live in takes a multifaceted approach. To the American taxpayer: We need to be investing in improving people's lives before the terrorists try to take over.

Things are temporary, relationships last forever. Nothing can replace the time we spend investing in the life of another.

This LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into harmony.

Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they are cheap.

Timing is everything in this markets.

Timing the market is a fools game, whereas time in the market is your greatest natural advantage.

To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.

To be an investor you must be a believer in a better tomorrow.

To buy when others are despondently selling and sell when others are greedily buying requires the greatest fortitude and pays the greatest reward.

To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit--investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm to create wealth and value.

To enjoy a reasonable chance for continued better than average results, the investor must follow policies which are (1) inherently sound and promising, and (2) not popular on Wall Street.

To me, it's obvious that the winner has to bet very selectively. It's been obvious to me since very early in life. I don't know why it's not obvious to very many other people.

To offer women something that feels more about investing in something and less about being disposable is a complete corrective to the world we live in

Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to lose sight of the complexities and interdependencies of the real world in a maze of pretentious and unhelpful symbols.

To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.

To see how much a company is truly earning on the capital it deploys in its businesses, look beyond EPS to Return on Invested Capital (ROIC).

Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom.

Traditionally the investor has been the man with patience and the courage of his convictions who would buy when the harried or disheartened speculator was selling.

Transfer payments discourage the recipients from earning income in the present and from investing in their potential to earn income in the future. People respond to a reduced cost of idleness by choosing to be idle more often.

Transformation in the world happens when people are healed and start investing in other people.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Turnarounds seldom turn.

[U]nemployment is ... a side effect of the cure for inflation.

Unless an investor has access to “incredibly high-qualified professionals,” they “should be 100 percent passive - that includes almost all individual investors and most institutional investors.

Value investing is predicated on the efficient market hypothesis being wrong.

Very little evidence was found that any individual fund was able to do significantly better than that which we expected from mere random chance.

Time and space are not conditions of existence, time and space is a model for thinking

Volatility is a symptom that people have no idea of the underlying value.

Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies.

Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.

Wall Street's favorite scam is pretending that luck is skill.

Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed.

Wall Street is littered with the bones of those who knew just what to do, but could not bring themselves to do it.

Warren is a very good judge of people and he's a very good judge of businesses.

Wall Street, with its army of brokers, analysts, and advisers funneling trillions of dollars into mutual funds, hedge funds, and private equity funds, is an elaborate fraud.

We are big fans of fear, and in investing it is clearly better to be scared than sorry.

We are convinced that the intelligent investor can derive satisfactory results from pricing of either type (market timing or fundamental analysis via price). We are equally sure that if he places his emphasis on timing, in the sense of forecasting, he will end up as a speculator and with a speculator's financial results." And "The speculator's primary interest lies in anticipating and profiting from market fluctuations. The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices.

We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.

Wait until companies have an initial prototype, have shown that they have the potential to be profitable and have the ability to scale. That's the best time to invest.

Warren Buffett once wrote that value investing is like an inoculation--it either takes or it doesn't--and when you explain to somebody what it is and how it works and why it works and show them the returns, either they get it or they don't.

We can extrapolate from the study that for the long term individual investor who maintains a consistent asset allocation and leans toward index funds, asset allocation determines about 100% of performance.

We can speak of the triumph of capitalism in the world, but we cannot yet speak about the triumph of democracy. There is a serious mismatch between the political and the economic conditions that prevail in the world today.

We continue to make more money when snoring than when active.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

We conclude that hedge funds are far riskier and provide much lower returns than commonly supposed.

We do not view the company itself as the ultimate owner of our business assets but instead view the company as a conduit through which our shareholders own assets.

We don't get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we'll wait, we'll wait indefinitely.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools.

We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry.