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If you want to know what's happening in the market, ask the market.
-Japanese Proverb
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'Tis money that begets money.
-English Proverb
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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
-Honore de Balzac
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I made my money by selling too soon.
-Bernard Baruch
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Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.
-Bernard Baruch
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When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.
-Bernard Baruch, 1929
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Bears don't live on Park Avenue.
-Bernard Baruch
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Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Our favorite holding period is forever.
-Warren Buffett
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A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim.
-Kenneth Chang
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Emotions are your worst enemy in the stock market.
-Don Hays
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Spend not on hopes.
-George Herbert
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It's not the bulls and bears you need to avoid -- it's the bum steers.
-Chuck Hillis
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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
-John Maynard Keynes
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Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.
-Peter Lynch, "Modern Maturity Magazine, Jan/Feb 1995"
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90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.
-William J. O'Neil
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Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repairing.
-Billy Rose
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I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.
-Charles M. Schwab
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Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another. This painting here. I bought it 10 years ago for 60 thousand dollars. I could sell it today for 600. The illusion has become real and the more real it becomes, the more desperately they want it.
-Oliver Stone
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Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
-Donald Trump
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With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.
-Oscar Wilde
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Books about Investment
