Overpaying Quotes

• No matter how careful you are, the one risk no investor can ever eliminate is the risk of being wrong. Only by insisting on what Graham called the "margin of safety" - never overpaying, no matter how exciting an investment seems to be - can you minimize your odds of error.

  Benjamin Graham

  Errors, Odds, Safety

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Work, Stupid

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• I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.

  Roger Moore

  Actors, Enjoy

  "Iconic James Bond Actor Sir Roger Moore Has Passed Away at Age 89" by Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. May 23, 2017.

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• It's easy to make fun of AOL's pending purchase of HuffPo. Just like AOL's purchase of TimeWarner, here we have a new media company - Huffington Post - fooling an old media company, AOL, into overpaying for something that has already peaked.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Fun, Media, Easy

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• Nokia and Research in Motion needed a modern operating system. They could have bought Palm or Android before Google did, but they didn't. Today, it's probably too late, and at the time they would have been criticized for overpaying, but as they say - shift happens.

  Marc Andreessen

  Google, Too Late, Research

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• Smart beauty is about looking your best and feeling your best and never overpaying for it.

  Stacy London

  Smart, Feelings

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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