My mother was a listener. I'm a talker. I'm very comfortable talking.
The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.
The stock market really isn't a gamble, as long as you pick good companies that you think will do well, and not just because of the stock price.
Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets.
When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don't know when you can find the bottom.
The list of qualities (an investor should have) include patience, self-reliance, common sense, a tolerance for pain, open-mindedness, detachment, persistence, humility, flexibility, a willingness to do independent research, an equal willingness to admit mistakes, and the ability to ignore general panic.
Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.
Why be the sheep when you can be the wolf?
The idea of investing in the positivity of employees is often low down on companies' priority lists.
When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!. . . So one goes on living, amusing oneself with hunting, with work - anything so as not think of death
If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.