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The only sound distinction in investment policies for one type of investor or another is based not on his financial position but on his financial competence and financial preparation.
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Benjamin Graham
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The more irreversible the decisions, the more expensive the consequences of being wrong.
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Peter Bernstein
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I believe the investor operates at a distinct advantage when he is aware of what path his thought process is following.
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Warren Buffett
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It is possible for an old, overweight ballplayer, whose legs and batting eye are gone, to tag a fastball on the nose for a pinch-hit home run, but you don't change your line-up because of it.
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Warren Buffett
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You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd because this is not a business where you take polls, it's a business where you think.
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Warren Buffett
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People are habitually guided by the rear-view mirror and, for the most part, by the vistas immediately behind them.
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Warren Buffett
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In the stock market, you don’t base your decisions on what the markets are doing, but on what you think is rational.
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Warren Buffett
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Investors who find an overly narrow niche to inhabit, prosper for a time but then usually stagnate. Those who move on when the world changes at least have the chance to adapt successfully.
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Seth Klarman
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Sometimes common sense tells us what statistics cannot.
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John Bogle
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All investors need to learn how to be at peace with their decisions.
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Seth Klarman
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You will be right, over the course of many transactions, if your hypotheses are correct, your facts are correct, and your reasoning is correct.
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Warren Buffett
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Just because we think a stock is undervalued doesn't mean we're right. We may be wrong in our judgment.
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Walter Schloss
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If you don't like to lose money and it affects your judgment, don't buy things that can go down a great deal.
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Walter Schloss
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Unless you are that rarest of birds, someone who is cool under the rapid-fire, high-pressure decision making required to maximize your returns, let others take such risks, and allow your portfolio to plug along at a slower speed. In investing, tortoises tend to win far more often than hares over the turns of the market cycle.
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Peter Bernstein
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Few decisions in life motivated by greed ever have happy outcomes.
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Peter Bernstein
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Faith in the long run is the most powerful force that drives investment decisions.
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Peter Bernstein
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Consequences, not probabilities, determine the decisions that matter.
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Peter Bernstein
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Risk in our world is nothing more than uncertainty about the decisions that other human beings are going to make and how we can best respond to those decisions.
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Peter Bernstein
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Risk is about how we make decisions, and only incidentally about the math that we employ to reach those decisions.
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Peter Bernstein
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A lot of great companies have made a lot of decisions you haven't heard about because they decided not to do something. Some of the best decisions they did do was to not do something.
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Peter Lynch
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The companies that do well, look out five, six, seven years, and some decisions they make may not be the right thing for the next year.
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Peter Lynch
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To lose money is the conventional penalty for bad judgment in speculation.
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Philip Carret
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I've thought a lot of things when I'm managing money with great, great conviction, and a lot of times I'm wrong. And when you're betting the ranch and the circumstances change, you have to change, and that's how I've always managed money.
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Stanley Druckenmiller
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I do not define my job in any rigid terms but in terms of having the freedom to do what seems to me to be in the best interests of the company at any time.
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Henry Singleton
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We all know that the best rule for investors -- the clients of the investment business -- is, "Don't just do something -- stand there."
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John Bogle
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When it comes to long-term investing, doing "less" is often "more."
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Joel Greenblatt
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There's no such thing as superior investing without superior judgment.
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Howard Marks
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Expertise is great, but it has a bad side effect. It tends to create an inability to accept new ideas.
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Dean Williams
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Most financial principles and theories have a degree of good sense to them. It may be a large degree, but it never comes close to being absolute.
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Fred Schwed Jr
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The problem is not whether price changes should be disregarded -- because clearly they should not be -- but rather in what way can the investor and the security analyst deal intelligently with the price changes which take place.
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Benjamin Graham
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I believe in maximum flexibility, so I reserve the right to change my position on any subject when the external environment relating to any topic changes too.
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Henry Singleton
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Knowledge is only one ingredient on arriving at a stock's proper price. The other ingredient, fully as important as information is sound judgment.
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Benjamin Graham
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There are two requirements for success in Wall Street. One, you have to think correctly; and secondly, you have to think independently.
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Benjamin Graham
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It is very hard to think against the crowd, especially when the crowd is practically universal and unanimous in thought and emotion.
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Fred Schwed Jr
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