Go for a business that any idiot can run – because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
If you can’t find any companies that you think are attractive, put your money in the bank until you discover some.
All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.
Invest in businesses any idiot could run, because someday one will.
Know what you own, and know why you own it.
Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research.
You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks.
When you start to confuse Freddie Mac, Sallie Mae and Fannie Mae with members of your family, and you remember 2,000 stock symbols but forget the children’s birthdays, there’s a good chance you’ve become too wrapped up in your work.
Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who’ve been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.
The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that’s always been my philosophy.
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I talk to hundreds of companies a year and spend hour after hour in heady pow-wows with CEOs, financial analysts and my colleagues in the mutual-fund business, but I stumble onto the big winners in extracurricular situations, the same way you do.
Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies.
Average investors can become experts in their own field and can pick winning stocks as effectively as Wall Street professionals by doing just a little research.
In the long run, it’s not just how much money you make that will determine your future prosperity. It’s how much of that money you put to work by saving it and investing it.
There are lots of stocks out there and all you need is a few of them. That’s been my philosophy.
Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.
Gentlemen who prefer bonds don’t know what they’re missing.
You just don’t know when you can find the bottom.
Long shots almost always miss the mark.