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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 sensible investing is value investing

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

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

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.

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.

Always buy your straw hats in the Winter

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

... Any pension fund manager who doesn't have the vast majority-and I mean 70% or 80% of his or her portfolio-in passive investments is guilty of malfeasance, nonfeasance or some other kind of bad feasance!

Anyone with special abilities earns a differential return on that flair, which we economists call a rent. Those few with extraordinary P.Q. (Performance Quotient) will not give away such rent to the Ford Foundation or the local bank trust department. They have too high an I.Q. for that.

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.

Any man who is a bear on the future of this country will go broke.

A party who bequeaths a note bequeaths the claim and not merely the material on which the writing appears. This is proved by a sale, for when a note is sold, the debt by which it is evidenced is also considered to be sold.

A person with a flexible schedule and average resources will be happier than a rich person who has everything except a flexible schedule. Step one in your search for happiness is to continually work toward having control of your schedule.

A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about the person doing the predicting.

Anything can happen in stock markets and you ought to conduct your affairs so that if the most extraordinary events happen, that you're still around to play the next day.

Anything can happen anytime in markets. And no advisor, economist, or TV commentator-and definitely not Charlie nor I-can tell you when chaos will occur. Market forecasters will fill your ear but will never fill your wallet.

As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him.

... a speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.

A prudent speculator never argues with the tape. Markets are never wrong, opinions often are.

A speculator gambles that a stock will go up in price because somebody else will pay even more for it.

A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.

As soon as you think you've got the key to the stock market, they change the lock.

As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying statistics.

At the time we acquired Viacom, everyone said I had overpaid. But even at today's depressed prices, that investment is worth billions. Everyone was saying MTV was a fad. I knew better.

A vast industry of stockbrokers, financial planners, and investment advisers skims a fortune for themselves off the top in exchange for passing their clients' money on to people who, as a whole, cannot possibly outperform the market.

Avoid second-quality issues in making up a portfolio unless they are demonstrable bargains.

Be aware of the level of the stock market. Are yields low and PE ratios high?

Before I came along, my field was dominated by myth, superstition, deceit, and outright fraud. I overcame it by the simple application of logical thinking.

Before selling, try to re-evaluate the company again and see where the stock sells in realtion to its book value.

A true luxury is a reward for investing in and developing a real asset.

Before you invest in anything else, exhaust the possibilities of investing in your own business first.

At heart, "uncertainty" and "investing" are synonyms.

Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences of being wrong.

Ben didn't want to lose money. He had had a rough time during the depression.

Berkshire was built on the eternal verities: basic mathematics, basic horse sense, basic fear, and basic diagnosis of human nature to make predictions regarding human behavior. We stuck to the basics with a certain amount of discipline and it has worked out quite well.

Before this century is over, the Dow Jones Industrial Average will probably be over one million versus around 10,000 now. So for the long-term, the outlook is tremendously bullish if you buy stocks blindly to keep for a century.