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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.

Look for companies with high profit margins.

Look at companies selling at new lows.

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

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.

Managed funds are astonishingly tax-inefficient.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

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.

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.

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.

Many the wonders but nothing walks stranger than man.

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

More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing.

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

Most active mutual funds are more interested in collecting fees than in boosting returns for investors.

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

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

Most people might just as well buy a share of the whole market, which pools all the information, than delude themselves into thinking they know something the market doesn't.

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

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

Move only when you have an advantage. It's very basic. You have to understand the odds and have the discipline to bet only when the odds are in your favor.

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

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks.

Mutual fund manager performance does not persist and the return of stock picking is zero.

Most successful investors, in fact, do nothing most of the time.

Mr. Market does not always price stocks the way an appraiser or a private buyer would value a business. Instead, when stocks are going up, he happily pays more than their objective value; and, when they are going down, he is desperate to dump them for less than their true worth.

My high-tech aversion caused me to make fun of the typical biotech enterprise: $100 million in cash from selling shares, one hundred Ph.D.'s, 99 microscopes, and zero revenues.

My job was to find stocks that were undervalued.

Never invest in a business you can't understand

Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon

Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country's advantage at variance with its neighbours' as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.

Never mingle your speculative and investment operations in the same account nor in any part of your thinking.

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new. Make it your goal to be better each and every day, in some small way. Remember the Japanese concept of Kaizen. Small daily improvements eventually result in huge advantages.

No economic measure has more value for a nation than investing in a clean & sustainable low carbon future

Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget.

Nothing important on Wall Street can be counted on to occur exactly in the same way as it happened before.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

Not only does investing in your infrastructure provide very good construction jobs, at the end of the project, you have something.

"Now you can trade the S&P 500 Index in real time" was the slogan in the newspapers for the first ETF. What kind of nut would do that?

Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.

Of one thing the investor can be certain: A large company's need to bring in a new chief executive from the outside is a damning sign of something basically wrong with the existing management - no matter how good the surface signs may have been as indicated by the most recent earnings statement.

(On being the world's richest man) I wish I wasn't ... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.

Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new.

Nobody wants to be passive; indexing is not passive - much more goes into indexing than watching a stock become the next buggy whip.

Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public.

No statement is more true and better applicable to Wall Street than the famous warning of Santayana: "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it".