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• Network marketing is the only industry that allows common people to earn millions with a minimal investment and zero overhead, coupled with total time freedom and the joy of global travel. There are three magic words that worked for all of us who have made it to the pinnacle and they'll work for you: 'Just don't quit.'

  Mark Yarnell

  Time, Zero, Freedom

  Mark Yarnell, Rene Reid Yarnell (2010). “Your First Year in Network Marketing: Overcome Your Fears, Experience Success, and Achieve Your Dreams!”, p.287, Three Rivers Press

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• Successful investing professionals are disciplined and consistent and they think a great deal about what they do and how they do it.

  Benjamin Graham

  Successful, Thinking, Consistent

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• A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.

  Benjamin Graham

  Pay, Too Much, Investment

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.23, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don't do any work.

  Peter Lynch

  Fun, Exciting, Dangerous

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• You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long, time.

  Charlie Munger

  Average, Long, Guy

  "When I Met the Legends of Investing - Part 1". Interview with Vishal Khandelwal, www.safalniveshak.com. October 31, 2012.

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• Probability is the very guide of life.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Statistics, Guides, Calculus

  "De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 45 BC.

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• There are two hedges I know of; one is cash and the other is knowledge.

  Bruce Berkowitz

  Two, Cash, Knows

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• Now is always the hardest time to invest.

  Bernard Baruch

  Hardest Times, Hardest

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• Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Errors, Two, Life Is

  FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from Feb 12, 2015

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• The trick is to take risks and be paid for taking those risks, but to take a diversified basket of risks in a portfolio.

  Jeffrey Gundlach

  Risk, Portfolios, Tricks

  "Gundlach: Stock Market Will Have Trouble Topping Bonds". Interview with Jason Stipp, www.morningstar.com. April 6, 2011.

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• When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investing Money, Forever

  Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett (2013). “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)”, p.63, Carolina Academic Press

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• The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

  Voltaire

  Motivational, Inspiration, Adversity

  Voltaire (2016). “VOLTAIRE – Premium Collection: Novels, Philosophical Writings, Historical Works, Plays, Poems & Letters (60+ Works in One Volume) - Illustrated: Candide, A Philosophical Dictionary, A Treatise on Toleration, Plato's Dream, The Princess of Babylon, Zadig, The Huron, Socrates, The Sage and the Atheist, Dialogues, Oedipus, Caesar…”, p.5643, e-artnow

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• A hyperactive stock market is the pickpocket of enterprise.

  Warren Buffett

  Enterprise

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• Your investor's edge is not something you get from Wall Street experts. It's something you already have. You can outperform the experts if you use your edge by investing in companies or industries you already understand.

  Peter Lynch

  Wall, Experts, Use

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

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• The worst thing you can do is invest in companies you know nothing about. Unfortunately, buying stocks on ignorance is still a popular American pastime.

  Peter Lynch

  Ignorance, Buying, Worst

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• A good portfolio is more than a long list of good stocks and bonds. It is a balanced whole, providing the investor with protections and opportunities with respect to a wide range of contingencies.

  Harry Markowitz

  Business, Opportunity, Long

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• You're investing in a different part of your life that is really important. It's not as important when you're a kid and you don't require sleep, and you don't get hung over, and you can fire on all cylinders. At 32 I don't consider myself old by any means, but you just find yourself in a place where you can't do everything the way you once did, and you have to take time to reflect and I think that's really important, because you get to appreciate what you have, and to enjoy it.

  Sophia Amoruso

  Mean, Sleep, Kids

  "#GirlBoss Sophia Amoruso on Her New Book, Nasty Galaxy". Interview with Maddy Budd, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 13, 2016.

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• Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth.

  Paul Clitheroe

  Investing Money, Careers, Wealth

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• Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.

  Peter Lynch

  Art, People, Bigs

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• Investing is important, but get debt-free first. That's what frees up your income so you can win.

  Dave Ramsey

  Winning, Debt Free, Important

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• The purpose of finance is to enable business to acquire the ownership of capital instruments before it has saved the funds to buy and pay for them. The logic used by business in investing is things that will pay for themselves is not today available to the 95% born without capital. Most of us owe instead of own. And the less the economy needs our labor, the less able we are to "save" our way to capital ownership.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Politics, Pay

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• This idea of anticipation is key to investing and to business generally. You can't wait for an opportunity to become obvious. You have to think, "Here's what other people and companies have done under certain circumstances. Now, under these new circumstances, how is this management likely to behave?"

  Edward Lampert

  Thinking, Opportunity, Ideas

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• You're dealing with a lot of silly people in the marketplace; it's like a great big casino and everyone else is boozing. If you can stick with Pepsi, you should be OK.

  Warren Buffett

  Silly, Investing Money, People

  "Warren Buffett - In 1974". Forbes Article, www.forbes.com. April 30, 2008.

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• Investors... can't pick stocks that are better than average. Stocks are a good thing to own over time. There's only two things you can do wrong: You can buy the wrong ones, and you can buy or sell them at the wrong time. And the truth is you never need to sell them.

  Warren Buffett

  Average, Two, Needs

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• Active management is little more than a gigantic con game.

  Ronald Ross

  Games, Active Management, Littles

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