Investment Wisdom

  • There are only three kinds of investors – those who think they are geniuses, those who think they are idiots, and those who aren’t sure.
  • One of the clearest signals that you are wrong about an investment is having the hunch that you are right about it.
  • Investors who focus on price levels earn between five and ten times higher profits than those who pay attention to price changes.
  • The only way to be more certain it’s true is to search harder for proof that it is false.
  • Business value changes over time, not all the time. Stocks are like weather, altering almost continually and without warning; businesses are like the climate, changing much more gradually and predictably.
  • When rewards are near, the brain hates to wait.
  • The market isn’t always right, but it’s right more often than it is wrong.
  • Often, when we are asked to judge how likely things are, we instead judge how alike they are.
  • Most of what seem to be patterns in stock prices are just random variations.
  • In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you’ll never learn that you should have fewer ideas.
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