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Bull markets go to people’s heads. If you’re a duck on a pond, and it’s rising due to a downpour, you start going up in the world. But you think it’s you, not the pond.

I caught hold of the great bull market in soybeans in 1977. I had no idea what I was doing, incidentally.

Speculators often prosper through ignorance; it is a cliché that in a roaring bull market knowledge is superfluous and experience is a handicap. But the typical experience of the speculator is one of temporary profit and ultimate loss

Whenever the investor sold out in an upswing as soon as the top level of the previous well-recognized bull market was reached, he had a chance in the next bear market to buy back at one third (or better) below his selling price.

In most bull markets there comes a time when the public controls fluctuations and the efforts of the largest operators are insufficient to check the rising tide.

Bull markets are great, but they breed complacency. Bear markets can be energizing. Instead of fretting over the decline in your net worth, think opportunistically about all those bargains – and the potential gains when, inevitably, a bull market returns.

To me the gold price takes the form of a very uncomplicated formula, and all you have to do is divide one by ‘n.’ And ‘n’, I’m glad you ask, ‘n’ is the world’s trust in the institution of paper money and in the capacity of people like Ben Bernanke to manage it. So the smaller ‘n’, the bigger the price. One divided by a receding number is the definition of a bull market.

There will always be bull markets followed by bear markets followed by bull markets

Disregarding the big swing and trying to jump in and out was fatal to me. Nobody can catch all the fluctuations. In a bull market your game is to buy and hold until you believe that the bull market is near its end. To do this you must study general conditions and not tips or special factors affecting individual stocks.

The last leg of a bull market always ends in hysteria; the last leg of a bear market always ends in panic.

It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.

Bull markets are born on pessimism, grown on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy, and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell.

There is only one side to the stock market; and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side

Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.

They say you never grow poor taking profits. No, you don’t. But neither do you grow rich taking a four-point profit in a bull market. Where I should have made twenty thousand dollars I made two thousand. That was what conservatism did for me.

The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy.

Don’t confuse brains with a bull market.

A market does not culminate in one grand blaze of glory. Neither does it end with a sudden reversal of form. A market can and does often cease to be a bull market long before prices generally begin to break.

Investment success does not require glamour stocks or bull markets.

Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that develop, particularly during the long bull market.

A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market.

There are two kinds of investors, be thay large or small: those who don’t know where the market is headed, and those who don’t know that they don’t know.

In Reno, there is always a bull market, never a bear market, for the stocks and bonds of happiness.