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What we do know is that speculative episodes never come gently to an end. The wise, though for most the improbable, course is to assume the worst.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
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The tour we've taken through the last century proves that market irrationality of an extreme kind periodically erupts -- and compellingly suggests that investors wanting to do well had better learn how to deal with the next outbreak.
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Warren Buffett
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Human nature being what it is, small loopholes are likely to be exploited until they become big ones, and big ones until they turn into financial disasters.
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Seth Klarman
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It would be silly to expect every bear market to turn into the Great Depression. It would be equally wrong to expect that a fall from overvalued, to more fairly valued, couldn't badly overshoot on the downside.
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Seth Klarman
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You must always be prepared for the unexpected, including sudden, sharp downward swings in markets and the economy. Whatever adverse scenario you can contemplate, reality can be far worse.
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Seth Klarman
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When the next fear-inspired panic occurs, investors' finger-pointing will almost certainly be aimed outward, while a good part of the blame should instead be directed inward.
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Seth Klarman
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People seeking answers to why the market plunged usually emphasize the immediate events that precipitated a selling panic, when in fact these events are but minor symptoms of much more severe underlying problems.
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Seth Klarman
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If you looked at September 1986 to October '87, the market was unchanged. It had a thousand points up and a thousand points down and they only remember the down.
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Peter Lynch
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People who exit the stock market to avoid a decline are odds-on favorites to miss the next rally.
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Peter Lynch
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Missing the bottom on the way up won't cost you anything. It's missing the top on the way down that's always expensive.
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Peter Lynch
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Everybody in the world is a long-term investor until the market goes down.
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Peter Lynch
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You need to know the market's going to go down sometimes. If you're not ready for that, you shouldn't own stocks. And it's good when it happens.
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Peter Lynch
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What you learn from history is the market goes down. It goes down a lot.
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Peter Lynch
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As a rule, Panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been previously destroyed by its betrayal into hopelessly unproductive works.
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John Stuart Mill
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The malady of commercial crisis is not, in essence, a matter of the purse but of the mind.
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John Stuart Mill
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Once a boom is well started, it cannot be arrested. It can only be collapsed.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
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