Dangerous Quote by Charlie Munger Download Open image “It's dangerous to short stocks.” — Charlie Munger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dangerous Investing
My advice to most people is don't short stocks. It's a very, very difficult business. And you can really get clobbered. — Whitney Tilson Copy Share Image
Don't short many stocks. Instead they hedge for tail risk with CDS and options. They are happy to incur illiquidity — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
The trend of the market is up, not down. Shorting stocks puts you against that trend and thus makes it more difficult to make… — Guy Spier Copy Share Image
Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
I'm not short, so I can make a speech and drive the stock down and cover the stock. That's not what I do. — Steve Eisman Copy Share Image
The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
If you own dozens of stocks, you will minimize the chance that any single problem will sink your ship — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never buy a stock because it has gone up or sell one because it has gone down. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the . that squares with the facts, and… — Nick Murray Copy Share Image
You should not buy a stock because it's cheap but because you know a lot about it. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Almost all good businesses engage in 'pain today, gain tomorrow' activities. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
If you want good behavior, don't pay on a commission basis. Our judges aren't paid so much a case. We keep them pretty well… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I think time and time again, in reality, psychological notions and economic notions interplay, and the man who doesn't understand both is a damned… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I have what I call an iron prescription that helps me keep sane when I naturally drift toward preferring one ideology over another and… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The tax code gives you an enormous advantage if you can find some things you can just sit with. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The great lesson in microeconomics is to discriminate between when technology is going to help you and when it's going to kill you. And… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Some years ago one oil company bought a fertilizer company, and every other major oil company practically ran out and bought a fertilizer company.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
They [Mc Donalds] take people and give them a first job, which enables them to get a second job. They do a very good… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We believe that almost all really good investment records will involve relatively little diversification. The basic idea that it was hard to find good… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
It is way less certain to be a wonderful business in the future. The threat is alternative mediums of information. Every newspaper is scrambling… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
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We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
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The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
When you start talking about elections being rigged, you're pushing people beyond democratic governance. And it's a very, very dangerous thing to do. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The Patriot Act is certainly a concern; all of those things are dangerous. I think more important than me preaching is that we as… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
Die gefährlichste Weltanschauung ist die Weltanschauung derer, die die Welt nie angeschaut haben. (The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have… — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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