Investing Quotes — Page 25

Investor, Businessman

“Only those who will be sellers of equities in the near future should be happy at seeing stocks rise. Prospective purchasers should much prefer sinking prices.”

Should Investing Sinking

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George Orwell

Writer, Journalist

“If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them.”

Feels Investing Results

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Gore Vidal

Writer, Essayist, Playwright

“When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'”

Should Secret

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist

“Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.”

Investing Prejudice

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Warren Buffett

Investor, Businessman

“Calculate "owner earnings" to get a true reflection of value.”

Reflection Investing Earning

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Martin J. Whitman

Investor

“We attracted a lot of market timers and asset allocators. I don't need those ... amateurs in my fund.”

Needs Investing Assets

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Martin J. Whitman

Investor

“In the financial world it tends to be misleading to state, "There is no free lunch." Rather the more meaningful comment is, "Somebody has to pay for lunch."”

Meaningful Investing Lunch

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Daniel Kahneman

Psychologist, Nobel Laureate

“There is general agreement among researchers that nearly all stock pickers, whether they know it or not-and few of them do-are playing a game of chance.”

Games Investing Agreement

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Warren Buffett

Investor, Businessman

“If you expect to continue to purchase stocks throughout your life, you should welcome price declines as a way to add stocks more cheaply to your portfolio.”

Way Investing Add

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Warren Buffett

Investor, Businessman

“Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of earnings that is not reportable by us under standard accounting principles than to purchase $1 of earnings that is reportable.”

Decision Investing Earning

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Winston Churchill

Politician, Writer, Historian

“If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions.”

Two Three Investing

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Warren Buffett

Investor, Businessman

“With enough insider information and a million dollars, you can go broke in a year.”

Years Dollars Investing

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