In an ideal world, the intelligent investor would hold stocks only when they are cheap and sell them when they become overpriced, then duck into the ….
The only thing you should do with pro forma earnings is ignore them..
Mr. Market's job is to provide you with prices; your job is to decide whether it is to your advantage to act on them. You no not have to trade with h….
Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic..
As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him..
Traditionally the investor has been the man with patience and the courage of his convictions who would buy when the harried or disheartened speculato….
Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed..
The investor who permits himself to be stampeded or unduly worried by unjustified market declines in his holdings is perversely transforming his basi….
No statement is more true and better applicable to Wall Street than the famous warning of Santayana: "Those who do not remember the past are condemne….
Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general..
The best approach here, if at all possible, is to use supervisory and regulatory methods to restrain undue risk-taking and to make sure the system is….
So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contri….
I think the leading cause of financial disablement is the belief that you can rely on the experts to help you. Investing requires an intense personal….
You cannot exalt God and yourself at the same time..
Time is a most precious asset. Would you consider investing more of your time in the things of eternity in order to merit the constant companionship ….
I've not found ! one single mutual fund, one single real estate investment, any gold, silver or anything else that has given me higher returns than: ….
The pursuit of things robs me of investing more in the work of Christ..
We next consider the rule that the investor does or should consider expected return a desirable thing and variance of return an undesirable thing..
Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission..
When a possibility is unfamiliar to us, we do not even think about it..
I am investing like a crazy person, mostly in internet start-ups. And I want to invest in Brazil as well, because I am Brazilian and that's in my hea….