Buy when most people, including experts, are pessimistic, and sell when they are actively optimistic.
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you may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular thing
More Betty Smith Quotes
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Always buy your straw hats in the Winter
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Losing some money is an inevitable part of investing, and there’s nothing you can do to prevent it. But to be an intelligent investor, you must take responsibility for ensuring that you never lose most or all of your money.
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The qualitative factors upon which most stress is laid are the nature of the business and the character of the management. These elements are exceedingly important, but they are also exceedingly difficult to deal with intelligently.
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The best way to measure your investing success is not by whether you’re beating the market but by whether you’ve put in place a financial plan and a behavioral discipline that are likely to get you where you want to go.
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A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.
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In security analysis the prime stress is laid upon protection against untoward events. We obtain this protection by insisting upon margins of safety, or values well in excess of the price paid.
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We have not known a single person who has consistently or lastingly make money by thus “following the market”. We do not hesitate to declare this approach is as fallacious as it is popular.
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Undervaluations caused by neglect or prejudice may persist for an inconveniently long time, and the same applies to inflated prices caused by over-enthusiasm or artificial stimulants.
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Though business conditions may change, corporations and securities may change, and financial institutions and regulations may change, human nature remains the same.
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