Many investors seem to have forgotten a hard reality: There are frequent periods when stock markets don't do much.
I’ve got one shot going through this life. I want to make sure I do as much as I can.
The basic skills of math, English and writing are not enough, ... You must develop a basic system of values to form and guide the use of these skills. The true test will not be what you learned in college, but how you used what you learned.
Teach your children or your grandchildren Chinese. It is going to be the most important language of their lifetimes.
Debasing your currency sometimes works in the short term, it has never worked in the long term and does not even usually work in the medium term. Lots of politicians like to do it because it is an easy way.
Index investing outperforms active management year after year.
I haven't met a rich technician
If you want to be lucky, do your homework.
Paper money is made of cotton, and I'm long cotton, by the way. One reason I'm long cotton is because Dr. Bernanke is out there running the printing presses as fast as he can.
Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half of your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of it.
My basic advise is don't lose money
It's a lot of fun finding a country that nobody knows about. The only thing better is finding a country everybody's bullish on and shorting it.
The City of London and Wall Street are not going to be great places to be in the next two or three decades. It's going to be the people who produce real goods in charge – the farmers and the miners.
Unfortunately politicians are not very sound people or they wouldn't be politicians.
The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt.
Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.
Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better.
Beware of all politicians everywhere. They excelled at recess when they were in school but have excelled at little since.
The Federal Reserve was not founded to bail out Bear Stearns or a few hedge funds. It was founded to keep a stable currency and maintain its value.
Most of my thoughts, you couldn't print.
You don't train for only the 100-meter dash and you don't practice only the excerpts. When I prepared for auditions, I spent most of my time each day on scales and exercises to be my best in basic musicianship, and only a half-hour or so on the actual excerpts I'd be playing.
Without giving specific names, most of the significant American banks, the larger banks, are bankrupt, totally bankrupt.
You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon.
I think this is also a great time to invest in private equity, helping companies grow from the ground up.
Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundred years. The world will continue changing.
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