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Every once in a while, the market does something so stupid it takes your breath away

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

The economic benefits of investing in children have been extensively documented. Investing fully in children today will ensure the well-being and productivity of future generations for decades to come. By contrast, the physical, emotional and intellectual impairment that poverty inflicts on children canmean a lifetime of suffering and want - and a legacy of poverty for the next generation.

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

I'd always had a childhood ambition to go into the investment capital business, and spent twenty-odd years in it. But the thought of spending the second half of my career in the same business was boring, so I looked around for other opportunities .

There are many who subscribe to the convention that service is a business cost, but our data demonstrates that superior service is an investment that can help drive business growth. Investing in quality talent, and ensuring they have the skills, training and tools that enable them to empathize and actively listen to customers are central to providing consistently excellent service experiences.

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

Peace is a culture that we create by putting it in the curriculum for young people, through creating this next generation where young people get a chance to go across borders, across cultures, to learn more about each other's life, to create a global community, learn about opportunities for helping others. It's investing in peace and tolerance training, ending the gap between rich and poor.

I swore I was going to exclusively collect assets and not liabilities for the rest of my life. I swore never to take gambles I couldn't back up, or that I couldn't afford to lose. And, I've stuck with that ever since.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.

Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.

Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market.

If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.

As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius.

A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth.

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.