"You don't have to be a genius..." - Quote by Warren Buffett
You don't have to be a genius to invest well
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“I've learned mainly by reading myself. So I don't think I have any original ideas. Certainly, I talk about reading Graham. I've read Phil Fisher. So I've gotten a lot of my ideas from reading. You can learn a lot from other people. In fact, I think if you learn basically from other people, you don't have to get too many new ideas on your own. You can just apply the best of what you see.”
“If we start deciding, based on guesses or emotions, whether we will or won't participate in a business where we should have some long run edge, we're in trouble.”
“No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.”
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“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.”
“Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.”
“An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes.”
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“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”
“When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them in their graves. Here are no lying nor vain epitaphs.”
“There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.”