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“Skeptics sound smart. Optimists make money” – Nat Friedman

“Bear Market: An episode during which common stocks are returned to their rightful owners.” – Traditional Wall Street definition

“Everyone is a disciplined, long-term investor…until the market goes down.” -Steve Forbes             

“The four most dangerous words in investing are: ‘this time it’s different.'” – Sir John Templeton

“The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.” – Benjamin Graham

“Throughout all my years of investing, I’ve found that the big money was never made in the buying or selling, the big money was made in the waiting.” -Jessie Livermore

“Diversification is for those who lack conviction” – Cameron Winklevoss

“To repeat, while such an index-driven strategy may not be the best investment strategy ever devised, the number of investment strategies that are worse is infinite.”-John Bogle   

“The decision to hold cash as an asset is as much much an investment decision has as buying a stock” – Dan White

“How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.” – Robert G. Allen

“Sometimes it is best to simply say “I don’t know exactly what is going to happen, but I think X strategy has a high probability of working. I’m going to put skin-in-the-game and allocate capital according to X strategy. If I see data points Y and Z change, then I will re-evaluate my perspective.” – Pomp

“The stock market is the only market where things go on sale and all the customers run out of the store…” – Cullen Roche

“The presence or absence of intrinsic productive capacity that lends itself to rational valuation seems to me the dividing line between investment and speculation” – Nick Murray

“Financial success is not a hard science. It’s a soft skill, where how you behave is more important than what you know” – Morgan Housel

“Its not whether you’re right or wrong, but how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong.” – George Soros

“The whole secret of investment is to find places where it’s safe and wise to non-diversify. It’s just that simple.” – Charlie Munger

“Be bold and brave, then diversify and remain paranoid.” – Morgan Housel 

“Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket” – Andrew Carnegie

“The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.” – Charlie Munger

“A very important principle in investing is you don’t have to make it back the way you lost it. And in fact, it’s usually a mistake to try and make it back the way that you lost it.” – Warren Buffett

“Every decade or so, dark clouds will fill the economic skies, and they will briefly rain gold.” – Warren Buffet

“If I’ve made one mistake in the course of managing investments it was selling really good companies too soon.” – Lou Simpson 

“Here’s the thing about behavioral economics. People are crazy.” – Phil Pearlman 

“You can’t get rich trading hours for dollars.” – Unknown