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“If we could muster the same determination and sense of responsibility that saves a country like Japan - or a company like Xerox - then investing to save women and children who are dying in the developing world would be very good business.”

Ifs World Children Country Would Be Responsibility Company Dying Determination Investing Very Good Developing Japan Good Business Muster Sense Of Responsibility Xerox

Author:Anne M. Mulcahy

“Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.”

Want Company Investing Buffets Investing Money

Author:Warren Buffett

“... Member Countries shall take necessary action and/or shall establish negotiations, individually or in groups, with the oil companies with a view to adopting ways and means to offset any adverse effects on the per barrel real income of Member Countries resulting from the international monetary developments as of 15th August 1971.”

“The key to making money in angel investing is saying no. You meet with 100 companies and say no to 99 of them.”

Company Keys Angel Investing Making Money Saying No

Author:Kevin Rose

“I plan to eliminate regulations that hinder domestic companies, particularly large conglomerates from investing in other companies.”

Company Plans Investing Regulation Hinder

Author:Lee Myung-bak

“It just seems logical that sticking to investing in only a small number of companies that you understand well, rather than moving down the list to your thirtieth or fiftieth favorite pick, would create a much greater potential to earn above-average investment returns.”

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Book:The Big Secret for the Small Investor: A New Route to Long-Term Investment Success

Source: The Big Secret for the Small Investor: A New Route to Long-Term Investment Success

“The idea of investing in the positivity of employees is often low down on companies' priority lists.”

Ideas Company Lows Investing Positivity Lists Priorities Employee

Author:Shawn Achor

“There is always a critical job to be done. There is a sales door to be opened, a credit line to be established, a new important employee to be found, or a business technique to be learned. The venture investor must always be on call to advise, to persuade, to dissuade, to encourage, but always to help build. Then venture capital becomes true creative capital - creating growth for the company and financial success for the investing organization”

Source: The First Venture Capitalist: Georges Doriot on Leadership, Capital, & Business Organization

“This idea of anticipation is key to investing and to business generally. You can't wait for an opportunity to become obvious. You have to think, "Here's what other people and companies have done under certain circumstances. Now, under these new circumstances, how is this management likely to behave?"”

People Thinking Ideas Done Certain Opportunity Waiting Company Keys Circumstances Management Investing Obvious Behave Anticipation

Author:Edward Lampert

“The thing that I have been emphasizing in my own work for the last few years has been the group approach. To try to buy groups of stocks that meet some simple criterion for being undervalued-regardless of the industry and with very little attention to the individual company.”

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Author:Benjamin Graham

“The typical fund company services 401k plan participants in the same way that Baby Face Nelson serviced banks.”

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Author:William J. Bernstein

“The true investor... will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operation results of his companies.”

Ifs Forget Results Pay Attention Company Return Investing Pay Attention Operations Investors Dividends

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“To see how much a company is truly earning on the capital it deploys in its businesses, look beyond EPS to Return on Invested Capital (ROIC).”

Looks Company Return Investing Earning

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“Although there are good and bad companies, there is no such thing as a good stock; there are only good stock prices, which come and go.”

Company Investing Good And Bad Comes And Goes Bad Company Stock Price

Author:Benjamin Graham

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

Should Company Intelligent Investing Investors Panic Good Company Great Company

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“Unlike return, however, risk is no more quantifiable at the end of an investment that it was at its beginning. Risk simply cannot be described by a single number. Intuitively we understand that risk varies from investment to investment: a government bond is not as risky as the stock of a high-technology company. But investments do not provide information about their risks the way food packages provide nutritional data.”

Way Ends Government Numbers Company Technology Risk Information Return Investment Investing Data Packages Vary High Technology

Author:Seth Klarman

“I have no use whatsoever for projections or forecasts. They create an illusion of apparent precision. The more meticulous they are, the more concerned you should be. We never look at projections, but we care very much about, and look very deeply at, track records. If a company has a lousy track record, but a very bright future, we will miss the opportunity.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“To suppose that safety-first consists in having a small gamble in a large number of different companies where I have no information to reach a good judgment, as compared with a substantial stake in a company where one's information is adequate, strikes me as a travesty of investment policy.”

“As a result of overdiversification, their (active managers) returns get watered down. Diversification covers up ignorance. Active managers haven't done enough research into any of their companies. If managers have 200 positions, do you think they know what's going on at any one of those companies at this moment?”

Ifs Thinking Knows Done Enough Moments Results Company Havens Position Ignorance Return Research Investing Active Managers Cover Ups Diversification

Author:Bill Ackman

“We're non-diversified. We focus. Why not buy more of your best idea rather than your 60th best idea? How many companies can I really know well over time and focus on, on a daily basis?”

Knows Wells Ideas Company Focus Bases Investing Why Not Diversification

Author:Bruce Berkowitz

“One of the ironies of the stock market is the emphasis on activity. Brokers, using terms such as 'marketability' and 'liquidity,' sing the praises of companies with high share turnover... but investors should understand that what is good for the croupier is not good for the customer. A hyperactive stock market is the pick pocket of enterprise.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“Wait until companies have an initial prototype, have shown that they have the potential to be profitable and have the ability to scale. That's the best time to invest.”

Waiting Ability Company Investing Scales Initials Profitable Best Times Prototype

Author:Dave McClure

“The business model piece is we're always talking about competing more effectively. If you're starting a company or career you don't want to compete. You want to create a monopoly. We want to invest in a company that has a good plan to create a monopoly.”

Ifs Want Company Talking Careers Pieces Plans Models Investing Starting Competing Monopoly Business Models

Author:Peter Thiel

“If the growth rate is so good that in another ten years the company might well have quadrupled, is it really of such great concern whether at the moment the stock might or might not be 35% overpriced?”

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Author:Philip Arthur Fisher

“Of one thing the investor can be certain: A large company's need to bring in a new chief executive from the outside is a damning sign of something basically wrong with the existing management - no matter how good the surface signs may have been as indicated by the most recent earnings statement.”

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Author:Philip Arthur Fisher

“I remember my sense of shock some half-dozen years ago when I read a recommendation to sell shares of a company ... The recommendation was not based on any long-term fundamentals. Rather, it was that over the next six months the funds could be employed more profitably elsewhere.”

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Author:Philip Arthur Fisher

“Be extra careful when buying into companies and industries that are the current darlings of the financial community.”

Community Company Industry Investing Financial Currents Careful Extras Buying Darling

Author:Philip Arthur Fisher

“Even in those earlier times, finding the really outstanding companies and staying with them through all the fluctuations of a gyrating market proved far more profitable to far more people than did the more colorful practice of trying to buy them cheap and sell them dear.”

People Trying Company Practice Findings Sells Investing Dear Staying Profitable Outstanding Colorful Fluctuation

Author:Philip Arthur Fisher

“When you buy a depressed company it's not going to go up right after you buy it, believe me.”

Believe Values Company Investing Believe In Me

Author:Walter Schloss

“You know, people tend to like to buy companies that are doing well.”

People Knows Wells Values Company Investing

Author:Walter Schloss

“One has to know more about a company if one buys earnings.”

Ifs Knows Values Company Investing Earning

Author:Walter Schloss

“Try to establish the value of a company.”

Trying Values Company Investing

Author:Walter Schloss

“Look for companies that do not have a lot of debt.”

Looks Values Company Investing Debt

Author:Walter Schloss

“I like the idea of company-paid dividends.”

Ideas Values Company Paid Investing Dividends

Author:Walter Schloss

“Look at companies selling at new lows.”

Looks Values Company Lows Investing Selling

Author:Walter Schloss

“I'm a passive investor. There are people who are very aggressive; they try to buy companies.”

People Trying Values Company Investing Aggressive Investors Passive

Author:Walter Schloss

“A lot of companies have lots of assets tied up in plant and equipment. Well, is it old plant, or is it new plant?”

Wells Values Company Plant Investing Assets Tied Equipment Tied Up

Author:Walter Schloss

“We get a feeling, if we can, about what we think the company is worth.”

Ifs Thinking Feelings Values Company Investing

Author:Walter Schloss

“Before selling, try to re-evaluate the company again and see where the stock sells in realtion to its book value.”

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Author:Walter Schloss

“Government support is not only investing in upstream areas like basic research, but also in downstream areas like applied research and early-stage financing for the companies themselves. This means there are great risks.”

Mean Government Company Support Risk Stage Research Areas Investing Financing Great Risk Basic Research

Author:Mariana Mazzucato

“One of the best investors around, Joel Greenblatt, has written a popular, charming and funny book about investing in great companies at low P/E multiples. To simplify an already simple book, great companies are generally measured as companies that can generate lots of profit without requiring a lot of capital. This means that they have high ROEs.”

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Author:David Einhorn

“The foundation of Ontario's economy is our skilled workers and innovative companies. Our government will continue its proactive approach to partnering with business and industry, investing strategically to help companies grow and create jobs in this period of economic uncertainty.”

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Author:Brad Duguid

“I'd love to build a company that will continue to make movies well beyond me someday. And I'd like to help start something great, even investing in it myself.”

Wells Helping Company Investing Someday

Author:Steven Spielberg

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