Bases Quote by William O'Neil

If you own a portfolio of stocks, you must learn to sell the worst performers first and keep the best a little longer.

— William O'Neil

It's very difficult for any particular segment of the stock market to sustain superior performance. The watch word for our financial markets is, "reversion…

— John C. Bogle

We like to buy stocks which we feel are undervalued and then we have to have the guts to buy more when they go…

— Walter Schloss

Many investors make the mistake of buying high and selling low while the exact opposite is the right strategy to outperform over the long…

— John Paulson

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.…

— Peter Lynch

I buy stocks when they are battered. I am strict with my discipline. I always buy stocks with low price-earnings ratios, low price-to-book value…

— David Dreman

The only way one should buy stocks is if you understand the underlying business. You stay within the circle of competence. You buy businesses…

— Mohnish Pabrai

Well, I think the secret is if you have a lot of stocks, some will do mediocre, some will do okay, and if one…

— Peter Lynch

Over the long run, superior performance depends on superior learning.

— Peter Senge

Many investors make the mistake of buying high and selling low while the exact opposite is the right strategy.

— John Paulson

I have never believed that large-cap stocks are too well followed to be anything but efficiently priced.

— Whitney Tilson

Buy cheap and sell high is a rule of business, and when you control enough money and enough banks you can always manage that…

— Ida Tarbell