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“Instead of listening to Hoffman and his lapdog analysts, traders should have heeded the honest warning in Commerce One’s annual report for 1999: “We have never been profitable. We expect to incur net losses for the foreseeable future and we may never be profitable.”
― The Intelligent Investor
― The Intelligent Investor
“One technique that can be helpful: See which leading professional money managers own the same stocks you do. If one or two names keep turning up, go to the websites of those fund companies and download their most recent reports. By seeing which other stocks these investors own, you can learn more about what qualities they have in common; by reading the managers’ commentary, you may get ideas on how to improve your own approach.”
― The Intelligent Investor
― The Intelligent Investor
“I don’t think you can ever know for certain. But I do know that my life is better when I work from the assumption that everyone is doing the best they can.”
― Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
― Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
“Know what you are doing—know your business.” For the investor this means: Do not try to make “business profits” out of securities”
― The Intelligent Investor
― The Intelligent Investor
“In the last 20 years the “profitable reinvestment” theory has been gaining ground. The better the past record of growth, the readier investors and speculators have become to accept a low-pay-out policy. So much is this true that in many cases of growth favorites the dividend rate—or even the absence of any dividend—has seemed to have virtually no effect on the market price.”
― The Intelligent Investor
― The Intelligent Investor
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