Occupation: Businessman Birth: January 19, 1944
If a picture is worth a thousand words, in business, so is a number..
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….
When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap..
Well, I think the secret is if you have a lot of stocks, some will do mediocre, some will do okay, and if one of two of 'em go up big time, you produ….
Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks just as well, if not….
Logic is the subject that has helped me most in picking stocks, if only because it taught me to identify the peculiar illogic of Wall Street. Actuall….
The junior high schools and high schools of America have forgotten to teach one of the most important courses of all. Investing..
There are substantial rewards for adopting a regular routine of investing and following it no matter what, and additional rewards for buying more sha….
During the Gold Rush, most would-be miners lost money, but people who sold them picks, shovels, tents and blue-jeans (Levi Strauss) made a nice profi….
The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share..
When you start to confuse Freddie Mac, Sallie Mae and Fannie Mae with members of your family, and you remember 2,000 stock symbols but forget the chi….
The biggest winners are surprises to me, and takeovers are even more surprising. It takes years, not months, to produce big results..
Never invest in anything that cannot be illustrated with a crayon.
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..
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….
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….
If you can follow only one bit of data, follow the earnings - assuming the company in question has earnings. I subscribe to the crusty notion that so….
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….
Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage..
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 stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment..