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- Man is a creature of habit. You can't make three s...
- Your brain determines your skill as an investor, b...
- Good investors always demand a margin of safety.
- Don't be a flash in the pan--success as an investo...
- All good investors deal in the long-term. The long...
- The best way businesses use images and symbols is ...
- Investors beware: the visual contains great emotio...
- The essence of accounting deception is distraction.
- The trick when evaluating management is to find a ...
- Never go halfway into an investment.
- Every investor needs a mirror for their actions. T...
- An investor should never lose the advantage of kee...
- In business, the key to fantasy is distance.
- When trying to understand a business, the key is n...
- To understand your motives you should first ask yo...
- Consider all your motives. Most investment decisio...
- The most costly mistake is trying to prove somethi...
- 'Reading between the lines' can teach an investor ...
- Hardly any investor probes enough.
- The best investors are all focus investors; they w...
- Make investments that allow you to invest the way ...
- As an investor, you have to understand businesses ...
- Good investors are usually observant, and the best...
- Don't subcontract your investment decisions. Good ...
- A patient investor never hurries or becomes overly...
- Thinking about beating the market may not be a pro...
- Study a businessman as deeply as you would a busin...
- The content of an investor's character is what mat...
- Cultivate the ability to see right to the core of ...
- Knowing when not to make an investment is every bi...
- Investing without a margin of safety is insanity m...
- The ability to think straight is by far the most i...
- Businesses are known for what they seem, rather th...
- Never expect a speculator to think.
- Margin of safety, the quest; purchase, the conques...
- Successful investments combine the maximum of valu...
- The only sin is risk.
- Value investing--a contradiction in terms.
- I follow my reason because I can trust it.
- Wall Street never shuts up.
- One investment in a great business at a great pric...
- Invest in the business you know, not the business ...
- If 80% of my return is coming from 20% of my portf...
- Reckless speculations add needless investment deci...
- An investor is someone who knows some of the worst...
- Everybody’s investment is nobody’s investment.
- Getting average results is deceptively simple. Get...
- How many investments I make and how much money I i...
- Where I invest is almost as important as how I inv...
- Diversify less, but focus and invest more.
- Self-denial is the spur of speculation.
- I can't control the markets. I control myself.
- An investment never succeeds, unless the investor ...
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