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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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 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.

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

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

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

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.

Impact investing can be a powerful instrument of change.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

In our society, it's been the men who've handled most of the finances, and the women who've stood by and watched men botch things up.

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

In the case of a meltdown, the regulatory authorities may find themselves obliged to step in to preserve the integrity of the system. It is in that light that the authorities have both a right and an obligation to supervise and regulate derivative instruments.

In the end, alchemy, whether it is metallurgical or financial, fails. A base business can not be transformed into a golden business by tricks of accounting or capital structure. The man claiming to be a financial alchemist may become rich. But gullible investors rather than business achievements will usually be the source of his wealth.

In the financial world it tends to be misleading to state, "There is no free lunch." Rather the more meaningful comment is, "Somebody has to pay for lunch.

In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and emotional impossibility.

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

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.

Instead of investing in the goods as they pass between producer and consumer, as the merchant does, the businessman now invests in the processes of industry.

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.

In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.