One of the reasons so many people get burned in the market is because they start buying as they see prices going up.

Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‚Too much of a good thing can be wonderful‘.

I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it’s made by Warren Buffett.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you’re good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

There may be less of a chance of losing all the money you put into a mutual fund than there is of losing all the money you put into lottery tickets, but you’re never going to win big in a mutual fund.

Many U.S. investors are already investing overseas rather than at home.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Jim Cramer is a very smart man. I watch his show. I just do not follow his advice.

During the Enron debacle, it was workers who took the pounding, not bankers. Not only did Enron employees lose their jobs, many lost their retirement savings. That’s because they were at the bottom of the investing food chain.

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it’s probably a bad business in which to invest.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

I’m going to retain a lot of Microsoft’s stock.

I am very concerned about the millions of baby boomers who are counting on the stock market to deliver them a safe, sound, long retirement. I am afraid the baby boomers who are counting on the stock market are in trouble.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

Remember that all financial markets are filled with good but not necessarily innocent people looking after their own self-interests before they look after yours.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

What I invest in, while not risky for me, may be too risky for most people.

Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.

One pillar to wealth is having residual income.

An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job.

I don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the ‚intrinsic value‘ of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means.

The rise in the price of gold is a sign that capitalism has stumbled.

You do not have to be a rocket scientist to know that it is hard for a market to keep going up when more and more people are getting out.

I’m a real estate guy.

The rich don’t work for money – the rich invent money.

As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will become a bull and save them. But as the market remains bearish, the optimists become pessimists, quit the profession, and return to their day jobs. This is when the real professional investors re-enter the market.

The rich continue to get rich the same way they always have – by understanding how money works and making their money work for them.

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity.

I have a problem with too much money. I can’t reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.

I just think people should invest in the world. Don’t invest in fashion, but invest in the world.

Don’t hold against me that I don’t own – that I don’t own a single stock or bond. Don’t hold it – I have no savings accounts.

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

If you must invest in paper, learn to be an options trader. Then you will know how to make money whether the markets are going up or down.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.