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If investing is entertaining, if you’re having fun, you’re probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

It’s not whether you’re right or wrong that’s important, but how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong.

The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.

Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It’s really a great invention, and I wouldn’t underestimate the value of that. But they’re not designed to take care of social needs.

We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.

Things are temporary, relationships last forever. Nothing can replace the time we spend investing in the life of another.

Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.

Invest time, don’t spend it.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns.

Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!

What we learn from history is that people don’t learn from history.

We should be investing where the public returns are greatest – that is in innovation.

The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.

There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.

Successful investing professionals are disciplined and consistent and they think a great deal about what they do and how they do it.

Only in the exceptional case, where the integrity and competence of the advisers have been thoroughly demonstrated, should the investor act upon the advice of others without understanding and approving the decision made.

I’ll give you the bottom 10% and the top 10% of any move if I get to keep the middle 80%.

The Present is the womb of the future.A greater future happiness can be had only by investing in the present correctly.Look after the present and the future will look after itself.

Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn’t fit in with the core belief.

All things flow, nothing abides. You cannot step into the same river twice, for the waters are continually flowing on. Nothing is permanent except change.

Every bubble consists of a trend that can be observed in the real world and a misconception relating to that trend. The two elements interact with each other in a reflexive manner.

It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

The best kept secret in the investing world: Almost nothing turns out as expected.

You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.

The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

Timing is everything in this markets.

The only thing I do know is that from chaos comes opportunity.

In order to be a really good investor, you need to be a little bit of a philosopher as well.

The determining trait of the enterprising (or active, or aggressive) investor is his willingness to devote time and care to the selection of securities that are both sound and more attractive than the average.