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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.
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Since I know of no way to reliably predict market movements, I recommend that you purchase Berkshire shares only if you expect to hold them for at least five years. Those who seek short-term profits should look elsewhere.
Speculation is most dangerous when it looks easiest.
Success in investing doesn't correlate with IQ ... what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.
The best chance to deploy capital is when things are going down.
The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.
The Dow started the last century at 66 and ended at 11,400. How could you lose money during a period like that? A lot of people did because they tried to dance in and out.
The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage.
The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money
The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don't have to swing at everything -- you can wait for your pitch.
The years ahead will occasionally deliver major market declines -- even panics -- that will affect virtually all stocks. No one can tell you when these traumas will occur.
There is nothing wrong with a 'know nothing' investor who realizes it. The problem is when you are a 'know nothing' investor but you think you know something.
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