Occupation: Investor Birth: May 9, 1894 Death: September 21, 1976
At heart, "uncertainty" and "investing" are synonyms..
The reader can test his own psychology by asking himself whether he would consider, in retrospect, the selling at 156 in 1925 and buying back at 109 ….
Nothing in finance is more fatuous and harmful, in our opinion, than the firmly established attitude of common stock investors regarding questions of….
The best way to measure your investing success is not by whether you're beating the market but by whether you've put in place a financial plan and a ….
Individual security bargains may be located by the process of security analysis practically at any time. They can be bought with good overall results….
The history of the past fifty years, and longer, indicates that a diversified holding of representative common stocks will prove more profitable over….
The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions..
For 99 issues out of 100 we could say that at some price they are cheap enough to buy and at some price they would be so dear that they would be sold..
The intelligent investor gets interested in big growth stocks not when they are at their most popular - but when something goes wrong..
The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods..
Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately def….
You must never delude yourself into thinking that you're investing when you're speculating..
Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they are cheap..
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 ….
All the real money in investment will have to be made as most of it has been in the past not out of buying and selling but out of owning and holding ….
Buy when most people, including experts, are pessimistic, and sell when they are actively optimistic..
In the short-run, the market is a voting machine - reflecting a voter-registration test that requires only money, not intelligence or emotional sta….
To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks..
Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors..
A defensive investor can always prosper by looking patiently and calmly through the wreckage of a bear market..
Mathematics is ordinarily considered as producing precise and dependable results; but in the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathema….