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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