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“Today's consumers are eager to become loyal fans of companies that respect purposeful capitalism. They are not opposed to companies making a profit; indeed, they may even be investors in these companies - but at the core, they want more empathic, enlightened corporations that seek a balance between profit and purpose.”

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Book:We First: How Brands and Consumers Use Social Media to Build a Better World

Source: We First: How Brands and Consumers Use Social Media to Build a Better World

“I'm primarily just an investor.”

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Author:Scott Adams

“Once in a while, I see my fellow TV investors praise a business just because they like the entrepreneur behind it. That kind of thinking might make you feel warm and fuzzy inside - but let's get back to reality.”

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Author:Kevin O'Leary

“We have a government that borrows $4 billion a day. We have a government that owes trillions of dollars in debt, half of that to foreigners, most of that to Chinese investors. I don't - that is extreme. Not only is it extreme. It's insane and it's unsustainable.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.”

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Author:Paul Ryan

“Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.”

“To investors, job creation is a second-order effect. Market participants care first about interest rates, exchange rates, bond prices and the one great factor that affects all three: the long-term solvency of a bond company called the U.S. government.”

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Author:Amity Shlaes

“If you run a corporation, your job is to maximize the return on investment for your investors. Good for you. But by the same token, we have to remember that corporations have no compassion. That’s why legislation and regulations are necessary.”

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Author:Russell Simmons

“You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.”

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Author:Stephen Sondheim

“Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.”

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Author:George Soros

“The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.”

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Author:George Soros

“Imagine if investors in Wal-Mart really cared about bribery at that company's overseas operations or safety standards at its overseas manufacturing plants. If investors pulled their capital, corporate leaders would have to respond.”

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Author:Eliot Spitzer

“The financial crisis of 2008 was not caused by investment banks betting against the housing market in 2007. It was caused by the fact that too few investors - including all of the big investment banks - bet too heavily on the housing market in the years before 2007.”

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Author:James Surowiecki

“Instead of mindlessly tossing billions at or taking billions from the Net as such, investors should be spending their time making sure that it's the future Fords and General Motors of cyberspace that are getting the capital they need.”

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Author:James Surowiecki

“Of course, looking tough on inflation is part of any central banker's job description: if investors believe that inflation is going to get out of control, you end up with higher interest rates and capital flight, and a vicious circle quickly ensues.”

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Author:James Surowiecki

“The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals.”

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Author:David Suzuki

“The only reason investors haven't run screaming from an obviously corrupt financial marketplace is because the government has gone to such extraordinary lengths to sell the narrative that the problems of 2008 have been fixed.”

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Author:Matt Taibbi

“Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.”

Source: Trump: The Art of the Deal

“Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps.”

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Author:Fred Wilson

“Venture capitalists are professional money managers. We are provided capital to invest as long as we can return it to our investors with a strong return in a reasonable amount of time. A strong return is three times cash on cash. A reasonable amount of time is ten years max.”

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Author:Fred Wilson

“I think it's a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It's why investors try to spread their portfolio round.”

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Author:Paul Wolfowitz

“Investors should be skeptical of history-based models. Constructed by a nerdy-sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the like, these models tend to look impressive. Too often, though, investors forget to examine the assumptions behind the models. Beware of geeks bearing formulas.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

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

“It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.”

“Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.”

“Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.”

“Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.”

“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.”

“It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.”

Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

“Our favorite holding period is forever.”

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Book:The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)

Source: The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)

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

Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

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

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Author:Warren Buffett

“The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.”

“If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

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

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Author:Warren Buffett

“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”

“We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.”

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Book:Heretics of Dune

Source: Heretics of Dune

“Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”

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Author:John Maynard Keynes

“Financial peace isn't the acquisition of stuff. It's learning to live on less than you make, so you can give money back and have money to invest. You can't win until you do this.”

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Author:Dave Ramsey

“How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.”

Source: Creating Wealth: Retire in Ten Years Using Allen's Seven Principles of Wealth

“The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.”

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Author:Philip Arthur Fisher

“I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong...I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.”

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Author:George Soros

“If you took our top fifteen decisions out, we'd have a pretty average record. It wasn't hyperactivity, but a hell of a lot of patience. You stuck to your principles and when opportunities came along, you pounced on them with vigor.”

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Author:Charlie Munger

“When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?”

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Author:Rene Rivkin

“Know what you own, and know why you own it.”

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Author:Peter Lynch

“The ability to say no is a tremendous advantage for an investor.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

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