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“Most people aren't cut out for value investing, because human nature shrinks from pain.”

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Author:Jean-Marie Eveillard

“Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.”

“It's fun to play around... it's human nature to try to select the right horse... But for the average person, I'm more of an indexer... The predictability is so high... For 10, 15, 20 years you'll be in the 85th percentile of performance. Why would you screw it up?”

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Author:Charles R. Schwab

“Even if this advice to portfolio decision makers to drop dead is good advice, it obviously is not counsel that will be eagerly followed. Few people will commit suicide without a push. And fewer still will pay good money to be told to do what is against human nature and self-interest to do.”

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Author:Paul Samuelson

“It's human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation (particularly if you're the lucky manager).”

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Author:William J. Bernstein

“Berkshire was built on the eternal verities: basic mathematics, basic horse sense, basic fear, and basic diagnosis of human nature to make predictions regarding human behavior. We stuck to the basics with a certain amount of discipline and it has worked out quite well.”

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Author:Charlie Munger

“There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Adam Smith (Illustrated)

“Wall Street never changes, the pockets change, the suckers change, the stocks change, but Wall Street never changes, because human nature never changes.”

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Author:Jesse Lauriston Livermore

“It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.”

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Author:Peter Lynch