It's 1450 out of 1500 ETF funds that I just wouldn't touch because they're not diversified enough. Or they have some huge… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Investing in auto companies and ensuring a financial collapse didn't lead not from a recession to a great depression may not have… — Robert Gibbs Copy Share Image
Ever since its founding in 1913, the Fed has described itself as an "independent" agency operated by selfless public servants striving to… — Thomas DiLorenzo Copy Share Image
In essence, the stock market represents three separate categories of business.They are, adjusted for inflation, those with shrinking intrinsic value, those with… — Michael Burry Copy Share Image
“Several researchers have found that companies that spend the most time offering guidance on quarterly earnings deliver significantly lower long-term growth rates… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Outperforming the market with low volatility on a consistent basis is an impossibility. I outperformed the market for 30-odd years, but not… — George Soros Copy Share Image
This idea of anticipation is key to investing and to business generally. You can't wait for an opportunity to become obvious. You… — Edward Lampert Copy Share Image
“If you want to become a consistently profitable day trader, you need to be formally trained and mentored by a seasoned veteran...anything… — Josh DiPietro Copy Share Image
I think the reality is that it's never been a better time to be an entrepreneur, it's never been a better time… — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share Image
Regulators around the world have achieved an unprecedented level of collaboration since the financial crisis to create global standards for financial institutions.… — James P. Gorman Copy Share Image
Investing is about predicting the future, and the future is inherently unpredictable. Therefore, the only way you can do better is to… — Li Lu Copy Share Image
The SEC does way more good than harm - the last thing I would do is get rid of the SEC...if accounting… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The purchase of a bargain issue presupposes that the market's current appraisal is wrong, or at least that the buyer's idea of… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
There are no new fundamentals. You've got to be a little suspicious of someone who says, "I've got a new fundamental." That's… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
“Being an entrepreneur takes many hours of the day, and if your entrepreneur is a late riser or an early quitter, it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that… — Maria Bartiromo Copy Share Image
For me, seed investing isn't just a good return area but a big part of how we network in Silicon Valley. A… — Joe Lonsdale Copy Share Image
... Our first priority should be the people who work for the companies, then the customers, then the shareholders. Because if the… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs or international conglomerateurs, or large financial institutions buy or create mutual fund management companies to create a return on their own… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
When you are an entrepreneur, you have founded your own firm, it is so easy to find that you exist - you… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
While everyone would love to have that perfect portfolio of stocks that can be bought and held forever, it usually does not… — Whitney Tilson Copy Share Image
Doing a me-too business, because it's you - the only person who cares about that is you. The market doesn't care if… — Stephen A. Schwarzman Copy Share Image
Speculation is an effort, probably unsuccessful, to turn a little money into a lot. Investment is an effort, which should be successful,… — Fred Schwed Jr Copy Share Image
When I took the entrepreneurship class at Stanford, the first lecture was about an entrepreneur and his personality. They described it as… — Phil Knight Copy Share Image
“Security analysis cannot presume to lay down general rules as to the "proper value" of any given common stock... The prices of… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The strategy of buying what's in favor is a fool's errand, ensuring long-term underperformance. Only by standing against the prevailing winds -… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
“10. Stores have massively excessive verbal communication. Products and packaging are a significant part of the clutter. Using iconic images, colors, shapes,… — Herb Sorensen Copy Share Image
When you are making a decision about how best to serve your customers, your own experience is often a better guide than… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
If you jump into a market when everyone else is doing the same thing, you're probably too late. On the other hand,… — Michael Maloney Copy Share Image
“The profit lure of mass production obviously has a place in the plans and strategy of business management, but it must always… — Harvard Business School Press Copy Share Image
Berkshire's past record has been almost ridiculous. If Berkshirehad used even half the leverage of, say, Rupert Murdoch, it would be five… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Selling, in particular, can be a challenge; many investors are tempted to become more optimistic when a security is performing well. This… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
“If it is a real movement, in a short space of time the natural, normal reaction will have been recovered, and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We will prosper or suffer in controlled investments in relation to the operating performances of our businesses - we will not attempt… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Building a startup community is not a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers: if everyone engages, they and the… — Brad Feld Copy Share Image
The good traders are the ones who can hold their ground the majority of the month and participate in that small handful… — Linda Bradford Raschke Copy Share Image
Ratings agencies are highly conflicted, unimaginative dupes. They are blissfully unaware of adverse selection and moral hazard. Investors should never trust them. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Americans wouldn't do that [cashing out the same day]. Then they would be in the great old thing we used to call… — Lamar Alexander Copy Share Image
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