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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.

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

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

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

Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.

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

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.

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.

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

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 can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.

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 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.

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

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

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 have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good.

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

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

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

We have not known a single person who has consistently or lastingly make money by thus "following the market". We do not hesitate to declare this approach is as fallacious as it is popular.

We have to have a special insight, or we'll put it in the 'too tough' basket. All of you have to look for a special area of competency and focus on that.

We live in a time of instant everything, courtesy of the electronic highway. It creates a community of toddlers. When they don't get immediate gratification, they get petulant and sulky.

We ignore outlooks and forecasts... we're lousy at it and we admit it ... everyone else is lousy too, but most people won't admit it.

We know that by simply changing our allocation between stocks and bonds, we can lessen the amount of volatility in our portfolio until we reach our comfortable sleep level.

Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure.

We're coming off a quarter here that was in-line with our expectations, but much lower at WPZ due to Geismar's extended outage and a continued heavy capital investing period all as was expected.

We need to continue investing in the programs that put Americans back to work in communities like Clark County.

We're emphasizing the knowable by predicting how certain people and companies will swim against the current. We're not predicting the fluctuation in the current.

We may buy a little bit of a stock, to get our feet wet and get a feeling for it.

We next consider the rule that the investor does or should consider expected return a desirable thing and variance of return an undesirable thing.

We really can say no in 10 seconds or so to 90%+ of all the things that come along simply because we have these filters.

We're going to spend our entire future living in tomorrow-investing now, when it's difficult, is the single best moment.

We're non-diversified. We focus. Why not buy more of your best idea rather than your 60th best idea? How many companies can I really know well over time and focus on, on a daily basis?

What people today call inflation is not inflation, i.e., the increase in the quantity of money and money substitutes, but the general rise in commodity prices and wage rates which is the inevitable consequence of inflation.

[W]e think the very term 'value investing' is redundant. What is 'investing' if it is not the act of seeking value at least sufficient to justify the amount paid? Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value -- in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price -- should be labeled speculation (which is neither illegal, immoral nor -- in our view -- financially fattening).

Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.