No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.
Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change
Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.
It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.
If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.
The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.
I've seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage -- leverage being borrowed money. You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing.
If we assume that there are normal or standard income results to be obtained from investing money in securities, then the role of the adviser can be more readily established. He will use his superior training and experience to protect his clients against mistakes and to make sure that they obtain the results to which their money is entitled.
You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.
The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble. . . We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.
When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.
I advise women to invest in real estate. It is the collateral to be preferred above all others, and the safest means of investing money.
The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed triumphs. Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball.
While Financier George Soros was investing money in Kosovo's reconstruction, the George Soros Foundation for an Open Society had opened a branch office in Pristina establishing the Kosovo Foundation for an Open Society (KFOS) as part of the Soros' network of "non-profit foundations" in the Balkans.
Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.
Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
You want to be greedy when others are fearful.
Many businesses fail because the owner wasn't willing to invest and wasn't educated on the difference between spending money frivolously and investing money into the business for growth, and the risks and rewards of that cash infusion.
