Investing Quotes — Page 27

Writer, Physician

“I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.”

Science Data Investing

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Walt Whitman

Poet, Essayist

“You want to know a sure way to lose money? Buy what's popular and don't know what you are investing in.”

Want Way Investing

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Warren Buffett

Investor, Businessman

“When they get their ego involved, people do things they shouldn't do.”

People Ego

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Warren Buffett

Investor, Businessman

“In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.”

Investing Commodity

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Arthur Rock

Venture Capitalist

“And what I'm interested in is investing in people.”

People Investing

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Warren Buffett

Investor, Businessman

“Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are.”

Player Bridges Investing

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Warren Buffett

Investor, Businessman

“An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business.”

Pieces Investing Tenacity

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Warren Buffett

Investor, Businessman

“[W]e think the very term 'value investing' is redundant. What is 'investing' if it is not the act of seeking value at least sufficient to justify the amount paid? Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value -- in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price -- should be labeled speculation (which is neither illegal, immoral nor -- in our view -- financially fattening).”

Thinking Views Investing

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Warren Buffett

Investor, Businessman

“Our marketable equities tell us by their operating results - not by their daily, or even yearly, price quotations - whether our investments are successful. The market may ignore business success for a while, but eventually will confirm it.”

Successful Investing Business Success

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Warren Buffett

Investor, Businessman

“We really can say no in 10 seconds or so to 90%+ of all the things that come along simply because we have these filters.”

Investing Filters Seconds

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Warren Buffett

Investor, Businessman

“I think the oversight is great, and I think that oversight ought to be devoted almost entirely to the question is this being done at market you know. In other words, you want to make sure that the government isn't investing foolishly. But you don't want to care about which congressional districts it goes to or whether banks get favored over.”

Thinking Government Investing

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Warren Buffett

Investor, Businessman

“When you build a bridge, you insist that it can carry 30,000 pounds, but you only drive 10,000-pound trucks across it. And that same principle works in investing.”

Principles Bridges Investing

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