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As long as you enjoy investing, you'll be willing to do the homework and stay in the game. That's why I try to make the show so entertaining, because if you aren't interested, you'll either miss the opportunity to make money in the market or not pay enough attention and end up losing your shirt.

It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.

Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.

Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.

All intelligent investing is value investing - acquiring more that you are paying for. You must value the business in order to value the stock.

Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety.

In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

The underlying principles of sound investment should not alter from decade to decade, but the application of these principles must be adapted to significant changes in the financial mechanisms and climate.

If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.

The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.

Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator.

While some might mistakenly consider value investing a mechanical tool for identifying bargains, it is actually a comprehensive investment philosophy that emphasizes the need to perform in-depth fundamental analysis, pursue long-term investment results, limit risk, and resist crowd psychology.

Investing is the intersection of economics and psychology.

Generally, the greater the stigma or revulsion, the better the bargain.

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 better, than the average Wall Street expert.

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

In the long run, it's not just how much money you make that will determine your future prosperity. It's how much of that money you put to work by saving it and investing it.

While it might seem that anyone can be a value investor, the essential characteristics of this type of investor-patience, discipline, and risk aversion-may well be genetically determined.

If you are not willing to own a stock for 10 years, do not even think about owning it for 10 minutes.

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 quickly enough so the fifth grader won't get bored.

Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.