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Quotes
Buying stocks is the best game in the world. It's a no-strike game. If the ball comes right
down the middle and you don't swing, you don't get called third strike. But it's hard when
your fans are telling you to 'swing, you idiot.'
- Warren Buffet
"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life, is bound in shallows and in miseries.
- W. Shakespeare
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it in one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss:
- from IF, by Rudyard Kipling, an inspirational poem for stockmarket adventurers
A man's character is his fate.
- Heraclitus, c. 535-c.475 B.C., Greek Poet
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
-Anonymous, On Analysts, Predictors, and Market Timers
It's not timing the market that counts, it's time IN the market.
-Investing Maxim
``If a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside advisers will come up with whatever projections are needed to justify his stance. Only in fairy tales are emperors told that they are naked.''
- Letter to Stockholders, 1998, by Warren Buffett, American Investor
Be careful of half truths, you may have the wrong half.
- Anonymous
Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get fat and hogs are slaughtered.
- Wall Street Proverb, On Greed
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
-Edward Gibbon, English Historian
I know the past, and thence will assay to glean a warning for the future, so that man may profit from his errors, and derive experience from his folly.
-Shelley, English Poet
Money dishonestly acquired is never worth its cost, while a good conscience never costs as much as it is worth.
-J. P. Senn
Any man will make a mistake, but none but a fool will continue in it.
-Cicero, Roman Orator and Philosopher
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
-Gladstone, English Statesman
In the long run, we are all dead.
-Lord Maynard Keynes, English Economist
There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.
-Mark Twain, American Humorist
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