Intelligent Quotes

As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him.

If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.

The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

The intelligent investor is likely to need considerable will power to keep from following the crowd.

An intelligent investor gets satisfaction from the thought that his operations are exactly opposite to those of the crowd.

The intelligent investor should recognize that market panics can create great prices for good companies and good prices for great companies.

It’s the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus’s brains and brawn and love of the sea with the tactical precision of the Spartan pikeman.

I’m confident that I’m as intelligent as many people, but I know that I’m not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I’m a shrinking violet because I don’t want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.

To me, God is an intelligent, loving, conscious energy and why do I say that? Well you need energy to create. You have to have a source. It’s undifferentiated energy which has intelligence or it couldn’t create.

Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things.