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The old Wall Street adage about avoiding things that need repairs is humorously applied to houses and stocks. Good investors should explain a company’s story in simple terms, focus on long‑term winners, and treat stocks like children they can care for.

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You shouldn't just pick a stock - you should do your homework.

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The best stock to buy is the one you already own.

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Avoid hot stocks in hot industries.

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When even the analysts are bored, it's time to start buying.

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

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Invest in businesses any idiot could run, because someday one will.

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The natural-born investor is a myth.

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Hold no more stocks than you can remain informed on.

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“Investing without research is like playing stud poker and never looking at the cards. For some reason the whole business”

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Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets.

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If you can't find any companies that you think are attractive, put your money in the bank until you discover some.

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Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research.

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Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don't do any work.

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Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.

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All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.

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Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.

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Nobody can predict interest rates, the future direction of the economy or the stock market. Dismiss all such forecasts and concentrate on…

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“The old Wall Street adage "never invest in anything that eats or needs repairs" may apply to racehorses, but it's malarkey when…

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I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks…

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“Actually Wall Street thinks just as the Greeks did. The early Greeks used to sit around for days and debate how many…

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The S&P is up 343.8 percent for 10 years. That is a four-bagger. The general equity funds are up 283 percent. So…

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All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the…

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Just because you buy a stock and it goes up does not mean you are right. Just because you buy a stock…

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Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks…

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There's no use diversifying into unknown companies just for the sake of diversity. A foolish diversity is the hobgoblin of small investors.…

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Bargains are the holy grail of the true stockpicker. The fact that 10 to 30 percent of our net worth is lost…

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A price drop in a good stock is only a tragedy if you sell at that price and never buy more. To…

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If you can follow only one bit of data, follow the earnings - assuming the company in question has earnings. I subscribe…

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Logic is the subject that has helped me most in picking stocks, if only because it taught me to identify the peculiar…

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Often, there is no correlation between the success of a company's operations and the success of its stock over a few months…

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Most investors would be better off in an index fund.

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There's lots of stocks out there and all you need is a few of 'em. That's been my philosophy.

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There's a company behind every stock and a reason companies - and their stocks - perform the way they do.

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The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.

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My method for picking stocks has never changed. When businesses go from crappy to semicrappy, there's money to be made.

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It isn't the head but the stomach that determines the fate of the stockpicker.

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You should not buy a stock because it's cheap but because you know a lot about it.

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An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.

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Visiting stores and testing products is one of the critical elements of the analyst's job.

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It only takes a handful of big winners to make a lifetime of investing worthwhile.

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If a picture is worth a thousand words, in business, so is a number.

“The old Wall Street adage "never invest in anything that eats or needs repairs" may apply to racehorses, but it's malarkey when it comes…

You just don't know when you can find the bottom.

I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up.…

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…

“In other words, I continue to think like an amateur as frequently as possible. GOING IT ALONE”

Absent a lot of surprises, stocks are relatively predictable over twenty years. As to whether they're going to be higher or lower in two…

A lot of people got in at the wrong time. A lot of people did very well and some people said, "This is it.…

All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the minuses from…

Owning stocks is like having children - don't get involved with more than you can handle.

When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.

“Remember, things are never clear until it’s too late.”

Long-term investing has gotten so popular, it's easier to admit you're a crack addict than to admit you're a short-term investor.

Don't bottom fish.

It would be wonderful if we could avoid the setbacks with timely exits, but nobody has figured out how to predict them.