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Old 02-20-2004, 07:03 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Wit and Wisdom


1. "Buy low, sell high." - Unknown

2. "Buy high, sell higher." - William O'Neil

3. "Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it." - Will Rogers

4. "Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No 2: Never forget Rule No. 1." - Warren Buffett

5. "I'd be a bum on the street with a tin cup if the markets were always efficient." - Warren Buffett

6. "Large profits can be made in common stocks. Large losses can be made in common stocks." - Peter Lynch

7. "Keeping up with a company in which you own stock is like playing an endless stud-poker hand." - Peter Lynch

8. "Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in." - John D. Rockefeller

9. "Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. (1929)" - Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University

10. "A fool and his money are soon parted." - Unknown

11. "Greed is good." - Gordon Gecko

12. "Stocks are simple. All you do is buy shares in a great business for less than the business is intrinsically worth, with managers of highest integrity and ability. Then you own those shares forever." - Warren Buffett

13. "You should invest in a business that even a fool can run, because someday a fool will." - Warren Buffett

14. "The key in life is to figure out who to be the bat boy for." - Warren Buffett

15. "If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed." - Burke

16. "In the short run, the market is a voting machine. In the long run, it's a weighing machine." - Ben Graham

17. "The safest way to double your money is to fold over once and put it in your pocket." - Kin Hubbard

18. "Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

19. "He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money." - Benjamin Franklin

20. "Taxpayer: Someone who works for the government but doesn't have to take a civil service examination." - Ronald Reagan

21. "In investing money, the amount of interest you want should depend on whether you want to eat well or to sleep well." - J. Kenfield Morley

22. "If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars." - J. Paul Getty

23. "It is not the return on my investment that I am concerned about; it is the return of my investment." - Will Rogers

24. "I'd give $1000 to be a millionaire." - Lewis Timberlake

25. "No I'm in real trouble. First, my laundry called and said they lost my shirt and then my broker said the same thing." - Leopold Fechtner

26. "I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years at college." - Hubert Humphrey

27. "An economist's guess is liable to be just as good as anyone elses." - Will Rogers

28. "Money often costs too much." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

29. "Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so." - Josh Billings

30. "When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is." - Oscar Wilde
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