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If you like spending six to eight hours per week working on investments, do it. If you don't, then dollar-cost average into index funds.
If you're in the luckiest 1% of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99%.
If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing.
In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.
It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
It's better to have a partial interest in the Hope diamond than to own all of a rhinestone.
It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
Keep things simple and don't swing for the fences. When promised quick profits, respond with a quick "no.
Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well.
Never invest in a business you cannot understand.
One can best prepare themselves for the economic future by investing in your own education.
One thing that could help would be to write down the reason you are buying a stock before your purchase. Write down 'I am buying Microsoft at $300 billion because...' Force yourself to write this down. It clarifies your mind and discipline.
Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shuts down for ten years.
Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.
Predicting rain doesn't count, building the ark does.
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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