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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 minuses from the…
- 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,…
- In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.
- Owning stocks is like having children - don't get involved with more than you can handle.
- Average investors can become experts in their own field and can pick winning stocks as effectively as Wall Street professionals by doing just a little…
- In the long run, a portfolio of well chosen stocks and/or equity mutual funds will always outperform a portfolio of bonds or a money-market account.…
- You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks.
- The worst thing you can do is invest in companies you know nothing about. Unfortunately, buying stocks on ignorance is still a popular American pastime.
- The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share.
- People who want to know how stocks fared on any given day ask, "Where did the Dow close?" I'm more interested in how many stocks…
- When people discover they are no good at baseball or hockey, they put away their bats and their skates and they take up amateur golf…
- Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research.
- If you hope to have more money tomorrow than you have today, you've got to put a chunk of your assets into stocks. Sooner or…
- Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.
- Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. If you are susceptible to selling everything in a panic, you…
- 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 to…
- If you have the stomach for stocks, but neither the time nor the inclination to do the homework, invest in equity mutual funds.
- A price drop in a good stock is only a tragedy if you sell at that price and never buy more. To me, a price…
- There's no use diversifying into unknown companies just for the sake of diversity. A foolish diversity is the hobgoblin of small investors. That said, it…
- What makes stocks valuable in the long run isn't the market. It's the profitability of the shares in the companies you own. As corporate profits…
- Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.
- Hold no more stocks than you can remain informed on.
- An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.
- There's a company behind every stock and a reason companies - and their stocks - perform the way they do.
- In the summer of 1990, I was buying stocks and I was probably three or four months early there. But we had a great rally…
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- Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it. — Henry Ward Beecher
- I don't think it makes any sense for an individual to invest in common stocks unless they know the company, work at… — Eli Broad
- I was a workaholic. I never stopped. I lived in fifth gear. I bought cars. I invested in stocks. I made more… — Mitch Albom
- For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes… — Jackie Chan
- As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very… — Ron Chernow
- Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks. — Ron Chernow
- People are the stocks into which we are to invest our time ... the best of all investments you can make is… — Billy Graham
- Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. — Irving Fisher
- Do you have any idea how cheap stocks are? Wall Street is now being called Wall Mart Street — Jay Leno
- Before this century is over, the Dow Jones Industrial Average will probably be over one million versus around 10,000 now. So for… — John Templeton
- If you buy all the stocks selling at or below two times earnings, you will lose money on half of them because… — John Templeton
- Wall Street never changes, the pockets change, the suckers change, the stocks change, but Wall Street never changes, because human nature never… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore