Occupation: Businessman Birth: January 19, 1944
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….
Just because you buy a stock and it goes up does not mean you are right. Just because you buy a stock and it goes down does not mean you are wrong..
I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading ….
Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator..
So while I was in college I did a little study on the freight industry, the air freight industry. And I looked at this company called Flying Tiger. A….
Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies..
The S&P is up 343.8 percent for 10 years. That is a four-bagger. The general equity funds are up 283 percent. So it's getting worse, the deterioratio….
There are substantial rewards for adopting a regular routine of investing and following it no matter what, and additional rewards for buying more sha….
I talk to hundreds of companies a year and spend hour after hour in heady pow-wows with CEOs, financial analysts and my colleagues in the mutual-fund….
The natural-born investor is a myth..
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..
The worst thing you can do is invest in companies you know nothing about. Unfortunately, buying stocks on ignorance is still a popular American pasti….
What makes stocks valuable in the long run isn't the market. It's the profitability of the shares in the companies you own. As corporate profits incr….
The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share..
If you're prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language that a fifth grader could understand, and quic….
The junior high schools and high schools of America have forgotten to teach one of the most important courses of all. Investing..
A price drop in a good stock is only a tragedy if you sell at that price and never buy more. To me, a price drop is an opportunity to load up on barg….
Never invest in anything that cannot be illustrated with a crayon.
When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap..
Bargains are the holy grail of the true stockpicker. The fact that 10 to 30 percent of our net worth is lost in a market sell-off is of little conseq….
There is always something to worry about. Avoid weekend thinking and ignoring the latest dire predictions of the newscasters. Sell a stock because th….