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We don't buy and sell stocks based upon what other people think the stock market is going to do (I never have an opinion) but rather upon what we think the company is going to do.
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Warren Buffett
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The course of the stock market will determine, to a great degree, when we will be right, but the accuracy of our analysis of the company will largely determine whether we will be right. In other words, we tend to concentrate on what should happen, not when it should happen.
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Warren Buffett
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Any form of hyper-activity with large amounts of money in securities markets can create problems for all participants.
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Warren Buffett
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While majority opinion can give any market movement considerable momentum that keeps it going in the same direction, majority opinion is inevitably and consistently wrong at turning points.
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Peter Bernstein
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The history of the stock market shows many periods of twenty years or more when stock prices ended up precisely where they began.
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Peter Bernstein
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I've been involved in the market too long to get excited.
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Philip Carret
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When the price of a stock can be influenced by a "herd" on Wall Street with prices set at the margin by the most emotional person, or the greediest person, or the most depressed person, it is hard to argue that the market always prices rationally. In fact, market prices are frequently nonsensical.
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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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We learned in the '20s that markets with participants playing heavily on margins could be more dangerous than markets where people are dealing in cash.
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Warren Buffett
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The disadvantage of being in any kind of a market type environment - Wall Street would be the extreme - is that you get over-stimulated. You think you have to do something every day.
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Warren Buffett
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Financial markets are a kind of time machine that allows selling investors to compress the future into the present and buying investors to stretch the present into the future.
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Peter Bernstein
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The whole institutional structure of the marketplace rests on the assumption that the other side of the trade will always be there; without that assumption, even the gutsiest of market-makers would refuse to stay in business.
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Peter Bernstein
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In my opinion, the market tells you when to buy things. And when things are really cheap, on a Graham and Dodd valuation basis, you should like them more. And when they’re really expensive, you should like them less.
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Seth Klarman
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Prices change when events are different from what the market has expected them to be.
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Peter Bernstein
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Discrepancies -- and hence opportunities -- in securities originate most often when events move faster than quotations.
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Benjamin Graham
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Most people who have been really successful in the securities markets say the same thing -- that they're not smart enough to get into the market and out of it. So they tend to remain more or less in the market at all times.
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Walter Schloss
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You want to design a portfolio that will make the members of a household as happy as possible, but the problem is that people aren't very good at anticipating how they're going to react to various market outcomes.
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Richard Thaler
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If you think of the stock market as a cauldron of minestrone soup that occasionally somebody sticks a ladle in and stirs up, it takes a while before all the vegetables float back to the level that they were at before.
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Seth Klarman
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The prevailing view has been that the market will earn a high rate of return if the holding period is long enough, but entry point is what really matters.
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Seth Klarman
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If the stock market has a period of outperformance of its long-term return, it is inevitably followed by some period of underperformance. But people being optimistic and greedy by nature take the recent short-term outperformance of stocks as a sign of good things to come, rather than a warning of bad things to come.
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Seth Klarman
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I am certainly not going to predict what general business or the stock market are going to do in the next year or two since I don't have the faintest idea.
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Warren Buffett
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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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Market inefficiencies, like tax selling and window dressing, also create mindless selling, as can the deletion of a stock from an index. These causes of mispricing are deep-rooted in human behavior and market structure, unlikely to be extinguished anytime soon.
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Seth Klarman
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It is crucial to have a strategy in place before problems hit, precisely because no one can accurately predict the future direction of the stock market or economy.
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Seth Klarman
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The daily blips of the market are, in fact, noise -- noise that is very difficult for most investors to tune out.
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Seth Klarman
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The tendency of investors to follow the market's momentum and bet on whatever has worked recently is accompanied by antipathy to whatever hasn't.
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Seth Klarman
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Stock market efficiency is an elegant hypothesis that bears quite limited resemblance to the real world.
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Seth Klarman
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There is always a tension in the financial markets between greed and fear.
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Seth Klarman
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If the market's going wild and you want to be in it, you either have to lower your standards to stay in the game or you buy stuff which may not participate because it's not part of the game at that time.
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Walter Schloss
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A lot of my stocks don't work. The beauty of the stock market is that if you are wrong, if you put $1,000 up, all you lose is $1,000. I have proven that many times.
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Peter Lynch
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The market at this point is institutional and we all act like a herd.
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Peter Lynch
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If you're in the market, you have to know there's going to be declines.
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Peter Lynch
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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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For some reason, you lose money rapidly in the stock market but don't make it rapidly.
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Peter Lynch
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You can lose money very fast, in two months, but you very rarely make money very fast in the stock market. When I look back, my great stocks took a long time to work out.
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Peter Lynch
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Volatility gets you in the gut. There's no question that when prices are jumping around, you feel different from when they're stable.
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Peter Bernstein
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Markets are shaped by what I call "memory banks." Experience shapes memory; memory shapes our view of the future.
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Peter Bernstein
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What other people are doing in the market is not relevant to what you’re doing.
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Peter Bernstein
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I can't say enough about the fact that earnings are the key to success in investing in stocks. No matter what happens to the market, the earnings will determine the results.
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Peter Lynch
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The novice soon learns that stocks are likely to maintain an upward or downward trend for long periods of time with minor interruptions of the major trend.
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Philip Carret
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One point movements may be likened to the ripples of the stock market, whose occurrence may be influenced by so great a multitude of factors that it is impossible to forecast them. Ten-point movements may perhaps be compared to waves.
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Philip Carret
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Anomalies are always to be found in the business situation.
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Philip Carret
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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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What makes stocks valuable in the long run isn't "the market." It's the profitability of the shares in the companies you own.
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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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Behind all the smoke and noise on the market's surface, it's important to remember that companies -- small, medium, and large -- make up the market's backbone. And corporate earnings drive stock prices.
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Peter Lynch
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What I do know about the stock market is that it looks forward.
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Peter Lynch
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Most useful and most dangerous are the stock market averages, most useful in revealing the general trend of the market, most dangerous if they mislead the trader into forgetting that, after all, his profits depend on the movements of the individual stocks in which he deals.
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Philip Carret
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Fashions play their part in the stock market as in other affairs of life.
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Philip Carret
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The stock market itself seems to be mainly driven by fashions and fads. However, when you look at individual stocks, it’s a different story, because individual stocks are much more diverse, and some of them can be predicted to perform well over the long run.
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Robert Shiller
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People say the market is overvalued, but if you are only looking at certain names, you will always find times when those names are undervalued. That's what we're waiting for.

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Chuck Akre
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In point of fact, all sorts of considerations enter into the market valuation which are in no way relevant to the prospective yield.
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John Maynard Keynes
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Day-to-day fluctuations in the profits of existing investments, which are obviously of an ephemeral and non-significant character, tend to have an altogether excessive, and even an absurd, influence on the market.
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John Maynard Keynes
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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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John Templeton
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The successful purchase of growth stocks requires two rather obvious conditions: First, that their prospect of growth be realized; and, second, that the market has not already pretty well discounted these growth prospects.
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Benjamin Graham
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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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The trouble with market forecasting is not that it is done by unintelligent and unskillful people. Quite to the contrary, the trouble is that it is done by so many really expert people that their efforts constantly neutralize each other, and end up almost exactly in zero.
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Benjamin Graham
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The strange revolutions wrought by time are nowhere so evident as in the securities market, where an accurate comparison of the present with the past is afforded by the price record over a period of years.
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Benjamin Graham
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The market may be crazy, but that doesn't make you a psychiatrist.
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Meir Statman
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Booms start with some tie-in to reality, some reason which justifies the increase in asset values, and then -- and this is the critical feature of speculative mood -- the market loses touch with reality.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
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If we really knew what the future will bring that is all we would have to know; but since stock market people can only guess the future and since they have the embarrassing habit of guessing wrongly, it seems best not to lay too much stress upon forecasts.
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Benjamin Graham
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Participation in the stock market is not limited to the experienced, the conservative, nor even the intelligent. It is a game at which any number of people may play. And as the market level rises, the quantity of players grows rapidly and their quality diminishes somewhat in proportion.
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Benjamin Graham
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The only significance of stock market gyrations to the true investor is that they give him an opportunity to buy good common stocks when they are cheap -- or at least reasonably priced -- and at times offer him an invitation to sell out at temptingly high levels.
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Benjamin Graham
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In the halcyon days of prosperity, the investor is satisfied with increased dividends and a rising market, and cares very little about dry statistics.
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Benjamin Graham
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The idea of measuring investment risks by price fluctuations is repugnant to me, for the very reason that it confuses what the stock market says with what actually happens to the owners' stake in the business.
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Benjamin Graham
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To establish the right price for a stock the market must have adequate information, but it by no means follows that if the market has this information it will thereupon establish the right price.
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Benjamin Graham
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I deny emphatically that because the market has all the information it needs to establish a correct price the prices it actually registers are in fact correct.
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Benjamin Graham
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People without experience or superior ability may make a lot of money fast in the stock market, but they cannot keep what they make, and most of them will end up as net losers.
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Benjamin Graham
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Investors feelings and reactions regarding inflation are probably more the result of the stock market action that they have recently experienced than the cause of it.
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Benjamin Graham
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It is interesting to see how unpopular companies can become, merely because their immediate prospects are clouded in the speculative mind.
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Benjamin Graham
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The obvious fact about security prices to any student of the market is that they fluctuate.
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Philip Carret
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The official who keeps one eye on his business and one on the stock market is not likely long to be numbered among the leaders.
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Philip Carret
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There is evidence that the stock market is more efficient in processing information about what other investors are doing than it is in processing fundamental information about the underlying assets, which is why stock prices so often turn out with hindsight to have been crazy rather than rational.
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Peter Bernstein
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People spend an unbelievable amount of mental energy trying to pick what the market's going to do, what time of the year to buy it. It's just not worth it.
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Peter Lynch
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I have lost a lot of money in some bad savings and loans. I have lost money in bad banks. And I have lost money in electronics companies. It is very easy to lose money in the stock market.
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Peter Lynch
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Short sellers are the market’s police officers. If short selling were to go away, the market would levitate even more than it currently does.
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Seth Klarman
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People who have made money in the stock market usually bought companies that have done well over time.
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Peter Lynch
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Even in good markets we have declines and trying to predict its direction over the near term is an exercise in futility.
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Peter Lynch
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It would be very useful to know what the market is going to do. But unfortunately, of all the market corrections that have ever come, no one has been able to predict them.
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Peter Lynch
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It's liquidity that moves markets.
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Stanley Druckenmiller
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The problem with the markets is that they are just like people, and individual investors can easily get confused.
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Robert Shiller
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I would like to see more volatility in the markets. Small shocks remind us that a bigger shock might occur. And, we protect ourselves to some extent.
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Myron Scholes
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The stock market does have a life of its own.
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John Kenneth Galbraith
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The market's very emotional but over time, doing something logical and systematic does work. The market eventually gets it right.
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Joel Greenblatt
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The market doesn't know everything, but it doesn't know nothing, and knowledge is cumulative. The market knows stuff now that it didn't know forty years ago, so it's harder to outperform.
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Howard Marks
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Mathematics is ordinarily considered as producing precise and dependable results; but in the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics the more uncertain and speculative are the conclusions we draw therefrom.
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Benjamin Graham
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We know from experience that eventually the market catches up with value. It realizes it in one way or another.
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Benjamin Graham
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If you’re going to be in this game for the long pull, which is the way to do it, you better be able to handle a 50% decline without fussing too much about it.
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Charlie Munger
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There are inefficiencies in the market, but they're not easy to demonstrate, and I think that needs to be done before one shifts money in that direction.
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Edward Thorp
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The mistake most people make is answering the door just because Mr. Market knocks. You don't have to let him in.
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Charles Ellis
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If you go to the stock market because you want excitement, then sooner or later you will lose.
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Charles Ellis
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Be skeptical of the popular reasoning behind any spectacular move in the stock market -- but don't be too sure this reasoning is wrong.
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Benjamin Graham
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The stock market registers the judgments of multitudes of buyers and sellers about the many factors which affect business -- what business is like today; what it will be like in the future.
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Bernard Baruch
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The impression has built up that the stock market is the cause of booms and busts. Actually, it is the thermometer -- not the fever.
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Bernard Baruch
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No one, not even the most experienced trader, economist or businessman can predict with certainty the course of the stock market.
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Bernard Baruch
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Experience shows that when really cheap issues are scarce the general market is high; but we do not present this as an infallible principle.
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Benjamin Graham
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The stock market has a 100% record, in the last 50 years, of predicting upturns in the economy. It's never been wrong. It's less than 50-50 on a downturn.
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Peter Lynch
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My experience leads me to predict that the action of the market will govern the investor's choice as to probable future growth rates, rather than vice-versa.
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Benjamin Graham
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The single most important thing to me in the stock market for anyone is to know what you own.
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Peter Lynch
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