Average investors can become experts in their own field and can pick winning stocks as effectively as Wall Street professionals by doing just a littl….

You have to let the big ones make up for your mistakes..

If you're lucky enough to have been rewarded in life to the degree that I have, there comes a point at which you have to decide whether to become a s….

More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing..

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 stat….

I deal in facts, not forecasting the future. That's crystal ball stuff. That doesn't work..

There's no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or worse, to buy more of it when the funda….

The Rule of 72 is useful in determining how fast money will grow. Take the annual return from any investment, expressed as a percentage, and divide i….

Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. If you are susceptible to selling everything in a panic, you ought….

Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business..

Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it..

A lot of people got in at the wrong time. A lot of people did very well and some people said, "This is it. I'll never get back in again." And they ma….

Long shots almost always miss the mark..

Gentlemen who prefer bonds don't know what they're missing..

My method for picking stocks has never changed. When businesses go from crappy to semicrappy, there's money to be made..

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..

Thousands of experts study overbought indicators, oversold indicators, head-and-shoulder patterns, put-call ratios, the Fed's policy on money supply,….

If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing..

Charts are great for predicting the past..

There's no use diversifying into unknown companies just for the sake of diversity. A foolish diversity is the hobgoblin of small investors. That said….

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..