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Happiness worth having is the warm glow that comes from investing ourselves in the world around us, come what may. It cannot be passively consumed or gulped down like a sugary drink. Happiness must be created by own ingenuity.

Have a philosophy of investment and try to follow it.

Having a tax code that rewards companies that are shipping jobs overseas instead of companies that are investing here in the United States, that will not make us more competitive.

Having fallen from the eternal, the Evil One's desires are endless, insatiable. Having fallen from pure Being, he is driven by the desire to possess, to fill his emptiness. But the problem is insoluble, always. He is compelled to have and to hold, to possess and consume, and nothing else. All he takes, he destroys.

He really meant to tell them that the big money was not in the individual fluctuations but in the main movements that is, not in reading the tape but in sizing up the entire market and its trend.

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

He who is greedy is always in want.

High valuations entail high risks.

Hint: money flows into most funds after good performance, and goes out when bad performance follows.

History doesn't crawl; it leaps.

I always felt very secure and very safe with real estate. Real estate always appreciates.

Here's one truth that perhaps your typical investment counselor would disagree with: if you're comfortably rich and someone else is getting richer faster than you by, for example, investing in risky stocks, so what?! Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

I am investing like a crazy person, mostly in internet start-ups. And I want to invest in Brazil as well, because I am Brazilian and that's in my heart.

I am not criticizing investing in the stock market; I am an investor.

I believe the only things that really matter in investing are the bubbles and the busts

I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.

"I can't sleep" answered the nervous one. "Why not?" asked the friend. "I am carrying so much cotton that I can't sleep thinking about. It is wearing me out. What can I do?" "Sell down to the sleeping point", answered the friend.

I don't think the Federal Reserve has any role in how high rates are right now. I don't understand why everyone is paying attention to this tapering. The Fed is using one kind of bond to buy another kind of bond. What's the big deal, and why is anyone taking the Fed seriously?

I am for maximum supervision and minimum regulation.

I’d compare stock pickers to astrologers but I don’t want to bad mouth astrologers.

I don't have a ticker-tape machine in my office.

I don't know whether I make myself plain, but I never lose my temper over the stock market. I never argue with the tape. Getting sore at the market doesn't get you anywhere.

I don't read economic forecasts. I don't read the funny papers.

I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.

I don't want a lot of good investments; I want a few outstanding ones.

I favour passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, in business, so is a number.

If given a choice between investing in someone who has read REWORK or has an MBA, I’m investing in REWORK every time. A must read for every entrepreneur.

"If I buy stocks on Smith's tip I must sell those same stocks on Smith's tip. I am depending on him. Suppose Smith is away on a holiday when the selling time comes around?

If I'd only followed CNBC's advice, I'd have a million dollars today. Provided I'd started with a hundred million dollars.

If I have any claim to originality, I do it by investing my own personality into it, so it's coming from a slightly more sardonic, English point of view.

I find it helpful to buy near the low of the last few years.

If only one word is to be used to describe what Baupost does, that word should be: 'Mispricing'. We look for mispricing due to over-reaction.

If anybody laughs at your idea, view it as a sign of potential success!

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

I find it more enjoyable investing time doing what pleases me, rather than wasting precious time attempting to please everyone else.

If, instead of playing the horses, an individual chooses to play the market, that is his own affair. Only he must understand that speculating in stocks is gambling, not investing.

If it's obvious, it's obviously wrong.

If I were investing in oil and gas stocks, there is one question I would ask CEO's: What portion of your capital is going to have to go in to stay even

If some lose their whole fortunes, they will drag many more down with them . . . believe me that the whole system of credit and finance which is carried on here at Rome in the Forum, is inextricably bound up with the revenues of the Asiatic province. If Those revenues are destroyed, our whole system of credit will come down with a crash.

If Bill Gates woke up with Oprah's money he'd jump out the window.

If the growth rate is so good that in another ten years the company might well have quadrupled, is it really of such great concern whether at the moment the stock might or might not be 35% overpriced?

If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.

If the market is so cheap, you want to get something with a little more zip in it, or potential.

If users are not doing what the designer intended (when users are investing time, effort, etc in your product), the designer may be asking them to do too much.

If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one's conceptions and what one does about them. Life can be seen as a fertile fallacy.

If you can eliminate the government as a 39.6% partner, then you will be much better off.

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them.

If you can't find any companies that you think are attractive, put your money in the bank until you discover some.

If you expect to continue to purchase stocks throughout your life, you should welcome price declines as a way to add stocks more cheaply to your portfolio.