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If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.

If you have more than 120 or 130 I.Q. points, you can afford to give the rest away. You don't need extraordinary intelligence to succeed as an investor.

If you hope to have more money tomorrow than you have today, you've got to put a chunk of your assets into stocks. Sooner or later, a portfolio of stocks or stock mutual funds will turn out to be a lot more valuable than a portfolio of bonds or CDs or money-market funds.

If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.

If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at your mercy.

If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions.

If you're lucky enough to have been rewarded in life to the degree that I have, there comes a point at which you have to decide whether to become a slave to your net worth by devoting the rest of your life to increasing it or to let what you've accumulated begin to serve you.

If you're not working to get your business or investing operation to operate without you, you're thinking too small. Think team and systems.

If you roll dice, you know that the odds are one in six that the dice will come up on a particular side. So you can calculate the risk. But, in the stock market, such computations are bull - you don't even know how many sides the dice have!

If your fund doesn't last for the long term, how can you invest for the long term?

If you want to have a lasting influence upon the world, you must invest in people's lives; and if you want to maximize that investment, then you must invest in those people while they are young.

If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.

I have become increasingly convinced that the past records of mutual fund managers are essentially worthless in predicting future success. The few examples of consistently superior performance occur no more frequently than can be expected by chance.

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

I have a 41-year track record of investing excellence… what do you have?

I have been around a long time and Wall Street has changed a lot.

I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.

I have $100 billion... You realize I could spend $3 million a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime.

I have a motto: it's never too late to give up. It's never too late to give up what you are doing, and start doing what you realise you love.

Impact investing can be a powerful instrument of change.

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

I have no idea on timing. It’s easier to tell what will happen than when it will happen. I would say that what is going on in terms of trade policy is going to have very important consequences.

Imagine if you borrowed your parents' car without permission and ran it into a tree, how much better you'd feel if you were incorporated.

I helped Ben with the third edition of Security Analysis, published in 1951.

I just keep investing in the future, and I haven't reached the point where I'm not doing that.

I knew a lot about what I did when I was 20. I had read a lot, and I aspired to learn everything I could about the subject.

I liked the results of the profits in the markets.

I'll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

I'm always fully invested. It's a great feeling to be caught with your pants up.

I'm investing in myself, I'm investing in others and I'm investing in my cause. I know if I persist it will pay back in dividends and it always does.

Index funds do not trade from security to security and, thus, they tend to avoid capital gains taxes.

In an ideal world, the intelligent investor would hold stocks only when they are cheap and sell them when they become overpriced, then duck into the bunker of bonds and cash until stocks again become cheap enough to buy.

In business we often find that the winning system goes almost ridiculously far in maximizing and or minimizing one or a few variables - like the discount warehouses of Costco.

Index funds are the only rational alternative for almost all mutual fund investors.

Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains.

Inactivity strikes us as intelligent behavior.

In almost every walk of life, people buy more at lower prices; in the stock market they seem to buy more at higher prices.

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

Index funds have regularly produced rates of return exceeding those of active managers by close to 2 percentage points. Active management as a whole cannot achieve gross returns exceeding the market as a while and therefore they must, on average, underperform the indexes by the amount of these expense and transaction costs disadvantages.

Index investing is an investment strategy that Walter Mitty would love. It takes very little investment knowledge, no skill, practically no time or effort-and outperforms about 80 percent of all investors.

In every mutual fund prospectus, in every sales promotional folder, and in every mutual fund advertisement (albeit in print almost too small to read), the following warning appears: "Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a speculative undertaking.

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.

In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard.

In most bull markets there comes a time when the public controls fluctuations and the efforts of the largest operators are insufficient to check the rising tide.

In order to be a really good investor, you need to be a little bit of a philosopher as well.

Instead of hoping he must fear and instead of fearing he must hope. He must fear that his loss may develop into a much bigger loss, and hope that his profit may become a big profit.

Interestingly, we have beaten the market quite handsomely over this time frame, although beating the market has never been our objective. Rather, we have consistently tried not to lose money and, in doing so, have not only protected on the downside but also outperformed on the upside.

In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.