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SUCCESSFUL INVESTING IS ALL about common sense. As Warren Buffett, the Oracle of Omaha, has said, it is simple, but it is not easy. Simple arithmetic suggests, and history confirms, that the winning strategy for investing in stocks is to
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“Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools. ”
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“The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.”
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“Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry... no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
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“But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.”
― On Suicide
― On Suicide
“In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.”
― An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
― An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Classics and the Western Canon
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