College Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“As with our colleges, so with a hundred ‘modern improvements;’ there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The…

— Henry David Thoreau

The earlier you invest, the higher that attrition rate is because it's compounded. We have a more scientific method of investment.

— Dave McClure

Investors covet past improvements but also always believe pricing unimaginable future creativity and efficiency gains is Pollyannaish. And they're always wrong. Bet on it.

— Kenneth Fisher

The investment game is getting more and more competitive.

— Charlie Munger

We invest in things like the future, like our children, like education. In other words, we invest in things that we understand we will…

— Simon Sinek

Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in this; that the increase…

— Charles Babbage

Investing today may well be harder than it has been at any time in our three decades of existence,

— Seth Klarman

“Today’s investor is so concerned with anticipating the future that he is already paying handsomely for it in advance. Thus what he has projected…

— Benjamin Graham^David L.Dodd

Enjoy the magic of compounding returns. Even modest investments made in one's early 20s are likely to grow to staggering amounts over the course…

— John C. Bogle

Below, we itemize some of the quite different lessons investors seem to have learned as of late 2009 - false lessons, we believe. To…

— Seth Klarman

Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future.

— Warren Buffett

Investors that do the best, and have done the best, are those that stay and compound at above-average rates over the long term.

— John Paulson