Occupation: Author Birth: September 8, 1907 Death: March 11, 2004
I remember my sense of shock some half-dozen years ago when I read a recommendation to sell shares of a company ... The recommendation was not based ….
Of one thing the investor can be certain: A large company's need to bring in a new chief executive from the outside is a damning sign of something ba….
I had made what I believe was one of the more valuable decisions of my business life. This was to confine all efforts solely to making major gains in….
Even in those earlier times, finding the really outstanding companies and staying with them through all the fluctuations of a gyrating market proved ….
If the growth rate is so good that in another ten years the company might well have quadrupled, is it really of such great concern whether at the mom….
Be extra careful when buying into companies and industries that are the current darlings of the financial community..
My mistake was to project my skill beyond the limits of experience. I began investing outside the industries which I believe I thoroughly understood,….
Practical investors usually learn their problem is finding enough outstanding investments, rather than choosing among too many..
History has shown that in every age and in every field of human knowledge, many of the views which almost everyone accepted as true and never bothere….
The successful investor is usually an individual who is inherently interested in business problems..
One, which I mention several times elsewhere, is the need for patience if big profits are to be made from investment. Put another way, it is often ea….
The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing..