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'Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing.'
- Warren Buffet
'I have an edge because a lot of people I compete with are not looking for reasons to buy. They are looking for reasons not to buy.' - Peter Lynch
'Everybody remembers the dark side of 1987 crash, but they tend to forget what a great buying opportunity it was.' - Graham Cooper
'One of the safest times to invest is when the news is awful and markets are depressed: the time of Deepest Gloom.' - John Train
'By being very selective, you increase your chances of picking superior performers. You can also watch those stocks much more carefully, which is important in controlling risk.' - William O'Neil
'An investor cannot earn superior profits from stocks simply by committing to a specific category or style. He can earn them only by carefully evaluating facts and continuously exercising discipline' - Warren Buffet
'How quickly investors flock to better-performing mutual funds, even though financial researchers have shown that the 'hot funds' in one time period very often turn out to be the poorest performers in another.' - David Dreman
'I believe it is critical not to be part of the herd when investing in financial markets. Just because most investors are moving in a particular direction doesn't make it the best direction. In fact, often it has meant the opposite.' - Jeffrey Vinik
'The fact that other people agree or disagree with you makes you neither right or wrong. You will be right if your facts and reasoning are correct.' - Benjamin Graham
'Remember that downturns do not last forever...' - John Train
'An investor's worst enemy is not the stock market but one's self' - Benjamin Graham
'The investor, unlike the speculator, does not have to worry too much about the short term' - John Train
'To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insight, or inside information. What's needed is a sound intellectual framework for decisions and the ability to keep emotions from corroding that framework.' - Warren Buffet
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