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An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Before costs, beating the market is a zero-sum game. After costs, it is a loser's game.
Buying funds based purely on their past performance is one of the stupidest things an investor can do.
Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!
Fund investors are confident that they can easily select superior fund managers. They are wrong.
Fund performance comes and goes. Costs go on forever.
Gunning for average is your best shot at finishing above average.
I believe, deeply and profoundly, that speculation is a loser's game.
If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.
In the long run, investing is not about markets at all. Investing is about enjoying the returns earned by businesses.
Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains.
Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes.
Investor emotions plus fund industry promotions equal trouble.
It's amazing how difficult it is for a man to understand something if he's paid a small fortune not to understand it.
Over the short run, the fundamentals are often overwhelmed by the deafening noise of speculation
Owning the stock market over the long term is a winner's game, but attempting to beat the market is a loser's game.
Speculation leads you the wrong way. It allows you to put your emotions first, whereas investment gets emotions out of the picture.
The grim irony of investing, then, is that we investors as a group not only don't get what we pay for, we get precisely what we don't pay for. So if we pay for nothing, we get everything.
The historical data support one conclusion with unusual force: To invest with success, you must be a long-term investor.
The idea that a bell rings to signal when investors should get into or out of the market is simply not credible.
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