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To discern profits only when it is within the ken of the market herd is not the acme of investing excellence

To live a bigger life, you need to learn how to be a bigger human being.

To win the lottery once may be evidence of luck or skill; to win it repeatedly is evidence of skill.

Trying to pick the stocks that outperform the average is like trying to find a needle in a haystack.

Value investing was once the purchase of tangible assets at levels below their market value. Value investing today is buying sustainable competitive advantages at a good price.

Understanding the value of a security and whether it's trading above or below that value is the difference between investing and speculating.

Unless we keep the dollars we receive as salary under the pillow, we undertake some form of investing.

Volatility in the up direction is not a problem-it's only downward volatility that offers discourse.

We can't all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the pie.

We need a moderately-priced stock market… The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But, unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do. For the investor, a too-high purchase price for the stock of an excellent company can undo the effects of a subsequent decade of favorable business developments.

You don't need to chase wealth, just become a real entrepreneur and the world is your oyster.

We need to start to talk about money in ways that dethrone it and make it subject to human ethics and standards of love and decency.

We usually save money to waste it.

When investing, more effort means worse results, most of the time.

Your assets are your employees. Invest more on those performing well. Let the non performers go.

You should RULE your money, Money shouldn't RULE your Life.

A banker is somebody who lends you an umbrella & takes it away as soon as it starts raining.

A cell is a complex structure, with its investing membrane, nucleus, and nucleolus.

A constant in my approach to investing: You should think politically but unconventionally.

Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of earnings that is not reportable by us under standard accounting principles than to purchase $1 of earnings that is reportable.

Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.

Active management is little more than a gigantic con game.

A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.

A Financial Research Corporation study determined that the expense ratio is the only reliable predictor of future mutual fund performance.

A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

A global economy is characterized not only by the free movement of goods and services but, more important, by the free movement of ideas and of capital.

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?

All the research shows that investing in women is a good investment

All sensible investing is value investing

All things flow, nothing abides. You cannot step into the same river twice, for the waters are continually flowing on. Nothing is permanent except change.

All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.

All jobs are created in direct proportion to the amount of capital employed.

All the publicity about value investing - it's become a very popular thing.

A lot of companies have lots of assets tied up in plant and equipment. Well, is it old plant, or is it new plant?

Almost every aspect of its (Federal Reserve) history should be approached with a discriminating disregard for what is commonly taught or believed.

Always consider investing in a grade-A man with a grade-B idea. Never invest in a grade-B man with a grade-A idea.

Always buy your straw hats in the Winter

Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.

An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.

A minuscule 4 percent of funds produce market-beating after-tax results with a scant 0.6 percent (annual) margin of gain. The 96 percent of funds that fail to meet or beat the Vanguard 500 Index Fund lose by a wealth-destroying margin of 4.8 percent per annum.

And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgment, on art, on a feel for financial markets.

An index fund is a fund that simply invests in all of the stocks in a market. So, for example, an index fund might invest in every single stock or almost every single stock in the U.S. market, it might invest in every single stock abroad, or it might invest in all of the bonds that are out there. And you can make a perfectly fine investing portfolio that mixes equal parts of all three of those.

An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business.

A nation's exchange rate is the single most important price in its economy; it will influence the entire range of individual prices, imports and exports, and even the level of economic activity. So it is hard for any government to ignore large swings in its exchange rate.

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

An intelligent investor gets satisfaction from the thought that his operations are exactly opposite to those of the crowd.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. When it comes to investing, nothing will pay off more than educating yourself. Do the necessary research, study and analysis before making any investment decisions.

An investor calculates what a stock is worth, based on the value of its businesses.

An outstanding addition to the volumes written on value investing. Not only do the authors offer their own valuable insights but they have provided in one publication invaluable insights from some of the most accomplished professionals in the investment business. I would call this publication a must-read for any serious investor.