Occupation: Businessman Birth: January 19, 1944
I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing ….
You just don't know when you can find the bottom..
In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment..
Charts are great for predicting the past..
When people discover they are no good at baseball or hockey, they put away their bats and their skates and they take up amateur golf or stamp collect….
All the time and effort people devote to picking the right fund, the hot hand, the great manager have, in most cases, led to no advantage..
The stock market really isn't a gamble, as long as you pick good companies that you think will do well, and not just because of the stock price..
If a picture is worth a thousand words, in business, so is a number..
Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the corrections..
Hold no more stocks than you can remain informed on..
Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business..
Nobody can predict interest rates, the future direction of the economy or the stock market. Dismiss all such forecasts and concentrate on what's actu….
The biggest winners are surprises to me, and takeovers are even more surprising. It takes years, not months, to produce big results..
The best stock to buy is the one you already own..
Visiting stores and testing products is one of the critical elements of the analyst's job..
All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the minuses from the stocks that d….
Your ultimate success or failure will depend on your ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow your investments to succeed..
The extravagance of any corporate office is directly proportional to management's reluctance to reward the shareholders..
You can't see the future through a rearview mirror.
It only takes a handful of big winners to make a lifetime of investing worthwhile..
I don't know anyone who said on their deathbed: 'Gee, I wish I'd spent more time at the office.'.