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“Is there a greater tragedy imaginable than that, in our endeavour consciously to shape our future in accordance with high ideals, we should in fact unwittingly produce the very opposite of what we have been striving for?”

Should Has Beens Facts Greater Produce Shapes Ideals Opposites Tragedy Strive Investing Our Future Endeavour

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“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.”

Wells Seems Moving Numbers Company Greater Return Picks Investment Investing Average Lists Logical Small Numbers Above Average

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

“No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress.”

Mean Has Beens Made Mistake Greater Imagine Progress Written Investing Improvement Imagine That

Book:Essays of Schopenhauer: Top Essays

Source: Essays of Schopenhauer: Top Essays

“The more cash that builds up in the treasury, the greater the pressure to piss it away.”

Greater Pressure Investing Cash Treasury

Book:One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In

Source: One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In

“The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the passive group - the "know-nothings" - must win.”

Knows Mean Winning Greater Groups Return Investing Active Investors Passive Percentages Brethren

Author:Warren Buffett

“First, those who disagree with market efficiency simply assert that it stands to common sense that greater effort to get facts and greater acumen in analyzing those facts will pay off in better performance somehow measured. (By this logic, cure for cancer must have been found by 1955).”

Firsts Has Beens Facts Found Common Effort Pay Greater Logic Performances Investing Cancer Common Sense Cures Disagree Efficiency Analyzing Acumen Market Efficiency

Author:Paul Samuelson

“Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence.”

Humans Action Greater Evidence Weight Historical Investing Impressive Human Actions

Book:Stocks for the Long Run: The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns and Long-term Investment Strategies

Source: Stocks for the Long Run: The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns and Long-term Investment Strategies

“The sillier the market's behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor.”

Opportunity Greater Behavior Investing Investors

Book:The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed

Source: The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed

“The risk of an investment is described by both the probability and the potential amount of loss. The risk of an investment-the probability of an adverse outcome-is partly inherent in its very nature. A dollar spent on biotechnology research is a riskier investment than a dollar used to purchase utility equipment. The former has both a greater probability of loss and a greater percentage of the investment at stake.”

Used Loss Greater Risk Amount Research Dollars Investment Investing Former Outcomes Stakes Inherent Equipment Probability Percentages Utility Adverse Biotechnology

Author:Seth Klarman

“There is something on earth greater than arbitrary or despotic power. The lightning has its power, and the whirlwind has its power, and the earthquake has its power; but there is something among men more capable of shaking despotic thrones than lightning, whirlwind, or earthquake, and that is, the excited and aroused indignation of the whole civilized world.”

Men World Whole Earth Greater Capable Investing Excited Civilized Lightning Thrones Arbitrary Shaking Earthquakes Indignation Whirlwind

Book:THE WORKS OF DANIEL WEBSTER; VOLUME II

Source: THE WORKS OF DANIEL WEBSTER; VOLUME II

“The Present is the womb of the future. A greater future happiness can be had only by investing in the present correctly. Look after the present and the future will look after itself.”

Looks Greater Investing Womb Future Happiness

Author:Chinmayananda Saraswati

“Do not accept principal risk while investing short-term cash: the greedy effort to earn a few extra basis points of yield inevitably leads to the incurrence of greater risk, which increases the likelihood of losses and severe illiquidity at precisely the moment when cash is needed to cover expenses, to meet commitments, or to make compelling long-term investments.”