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The influence on stock prices are so numerous and so complex that no person has ever been able to predict the trend of stock prices with consistent success.
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When people are desperately trying to sell, I buy. When people are desperately trying to buy, I sell. It has worked out very well over the years.
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In all my 55 years on Wall Street, before I retired to do something vastly more important, I was never able to say when the market would go up or down. Nor was I able to find anybody on Earth whose opinion I would value on the subject of when it would go up and down.
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Diversification is a safety factor that is essential because we should be humble enough to admit we can be wrong.
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See the investment world as an ocean and buy where you get the most value for your money.
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I never in all my life bought a stock because I liked it. I bought it because it was a cheaper bargain than any similar stock I would buy anywhere in the rest of the world.
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In all my 60 years in the stock market, I never found anyone whose opinion of what the stock market would do next week or next month was worth heeding.
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Whenever you get a wild excess on the upside, the following correction doesn't just go back to normal; it almost always falls way below normal.
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Through reluctance to sell, more than one investor has avoided the capital gains tax but lost the capital gain itself.
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A lifetime of investment research has taught me to become more and more humble about making predictions.
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It appears that capital gains are one of the few remaining ways in which an enterprising American can build or augment a fortune.
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The difficulty of determining what any stock is really worth is very great indeed. No two security analysts will agree on the worth of a stock, or even on the definition of the word.
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