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Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors.

First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.

Let's hope brands recognize that the true power of this technology is not its reach but its ability to communicate substance that adds meaning to our lives. Otherwise, brands will be investing in technology that consumers simply won't buy.

The performance of GO.com continues to reflect the nascent stage of both the Internet economy and our Internet business. As with virtually every other Internet company, GO is investing as it builds for the future.

We've already seen a delay of nearly half a decade in investing in our infrastructure. To continue to delay it further is not a wise decision for our state's economy.

We believe that the Fund's strong investment performance and growth in assets clearly indicate that the era of socially responsible investing is beginning to dawn,

We believe that our new customer additions and revenue from repeat customers attest to our ability to acquire and retain customers by continually investing in innovative technology and new products and services that broaden our product offering.

We believe that online investing is going to be one of the highest growth business segments of the next decade.

We're in the business of investing in renewable energy projects, including wood-fired generating plants. Berlin, at this point, is one strong interest.

We started investing overseas quite a while ago -- for at least the last five or six years. We continue to branch that out.

The value of any investment is, and always must be, a function of the price you pay for it.

While Kerry merely talks about investing in technology, the President's investments have preserved America's status as the world's leader in research and development.

Whether you call it parity or balance, we now see teams that haven't been dominant programs rise up and have special years. It probably starts with the scholarship limits, but the other big difference we've seen is as television opportunities have escalated, everyone's now investing in facilities.

We're so much into getting better and not looking at the product and investing in the process,

We're going to need all forms of energy production, including more coal and nuclear. Despite the Bush administration's support for clean coal technologies, the US is not investing anywhere near what will be needed to make this work.

We feel that this is a great deal for both Hat Trick Beverage and Central Park North Records, as both companies are growing, and as Hat Trick Beverage is investing more resources in the Urban and Hispanic markets.

We're investing to meet present and future needs.

We're investing our name, enthusiasm, expertise and training.

We're investing in ourselves to show our commitment to the campaign. We're making a statement that we're in the race.

We're investing in a wide range of models. The new kind of applications ISVs (independent software vendors) can make (with Windows Vista) will be dramatically different from what's possible with the Web application model. I think it's clearly differentiated.

We're investing in a wide range of models. The new kind of applications ISVs can make (with Windows Vista) will be dramatically different from what's possible with the Web application model. I think it's clearly differentiated.

We're investing financially and creatively to develop an idyllic environment that reflects our personal tastes and interests and where we can relax with our friends who also love this town,

We're investing a lot at being able to store massive amounts of storage in the cloud, as cheaply as possible. We want to give customers the choice of what they put up in the cloud and what they keep on their PC.

We're forever in search of the Holy Grail of investing and that's some formula to give us the answer, ... That's the whole problem. These things work - until you try to use them.

But when that information travels only to a privileged few, when it is used to profit at the expense of the investing public, when that information comes by way of favored access rather than by acumen, insight or diligence, we must ask, 'Whose interest is really being served?'.

Through more than 200 years in private banking, The Bank of New York has gained a collective wisdom that supports high-net-worth individuals in planning, investing and transitioning their wealth. Our high net worth clients will value access to unbiased advisors who help manage their financial strategies and deliver objective solutions that meet their wealth management goals.

With what we saw with Hurricane Katrina and the rising price of gas and oil, that's just not an area we feel comfortable investing any dollars in. The economy is slowing and that's going to be a significant impact on those types of companies.

Ultimately it will not have an impact, ... (The sanctions) will be counterproductive because (they) will degrade the bonds of cooperation that exist between the U.S, Europeans, Japanese and other major trading and investing countries around world.

Ultimately, I'm in the fitness industry. But, I've branched out from there quite a bit. I began doing consulting on writing and getting published in magazines in about 2011. Right around that time, I started doing some angel investing and looking to grow my skills and general experience outside of that.

Anyone who is not investing now is missing a tremendous opportunity.

We've got companies from all over the world looking at investing here in Mississippi.

Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.

Now is always the hardest time to invest.

In trading/ investing it's not about how much you make, but how much you don't lose

You can never go wrong betting on Americans' bad eating habits. So I've made a ton investing in all fast food chains, while at the same time investing in Dockers, spandex, Spanx, and sweatpants. Basically, anything with an elastic waistband is a goldmine.

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

We have seen an increase in travelers during the spring holiday over the last two years, and we know consumers are increasingly looking to book vacation rentals as their accommodations. We are very confident that this trend will continue, so the city of Panama Beach is investing in its infrastructure as investors unfold their plans for vacation lodging. In fact, the number of condo properties is projected to increase from 83 to 130 between 2006 and 2007 and the number of condominium units is forecast to increase from 8,712 to 27,929 -- a 320 percent increase.

This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets. Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.

All the research shows that investing in women is a good investment

Berkshire was built on the eternal verities: basic mathematics, basic horse sense, basic fear, and basic diagnosis of human nature to make predictions regarding human behavior. We stuck to the basics with a certain amount of discipline and it has worked out quite well.

The only intelligence investing is value investing...to acquire more than one is paying for.

Investing is where you find a few great companies and then sit on your ass.

You're looking for a mispriced gamble. That's what investing is. And you have to know enough to know whether the gamble is mispriced. That's value investing.

Warren spends 70 hours a week thinking about investing .

It's not supposed to be easy. Anyone who finds it easy is stupid.

All sensible investing is value investing

Learn how to ignore the examples from others when they are wrong, because few skills are more worth having.

Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.

You've got to have models in your head and you've got to array you experience - both vicarious and direct - onto this latticework of mental models.

Here's one truth that perhaps your typical investment counselor would disagree with: if you're comfortably rich and someone else is getting richer faster than you by, for example, investing in risky stocks, so what?! Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

The idea of excessive diversification is madness. Wide diversification, which necessarily includes investment in mediocre businesses, only guarantees ordinary results.

You must value the business in order to value the stock.

The whole concept of dividing it up into 'value' and 'growth' strikes me as twaddle. It's convenient for a bunch of pension fund consultants to get fees prattling about and a way for one advisor to distinguish himself from another. But, to me, all intelligent investing is value investing.

Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.

All intelligent investing is value investing - acquiring more that you are paying for. You must value the business in order to value the stock.

If (investing) weren't a little difficult, everybody would be rich.

Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new. Make it your goal to be better each and every day, in some small way. Remember the Japanese concept of Kaizen. Small daily improvements eventually result in huge advantages.

As a result of overdiversification, their (active managers) returns get watered down. Diversification covers up ignorance. Active managers haven't done enough research into any of their companies. If managers have 200 positions, do you think they know what's going on at any one of those companies at this moment?

You can learn investing by reading books.

Demanding immediate success invariably leads to playing the fads or fashions currently performing well rather than investing on a solid basis. A course of investment, once charted, should be given time to work out. Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

And what I'm interested in is investing in people.

The best approach here if at all possible is to use supervisory and regulatory methods to restrain undue risk-taking and to make sure the system is resilient in case an asset price bubble bursts in the future.

...the Federal Reserve has the capacity to operate in domestic money markets to maintain interest rates at a level consistent with our economic goals

Successful investing professionals are disciplined and consistent and they think a great deal about what they do and how they do it.

A speculator gambles that a stock will go up in price because somebody else will pay even more for it.

Confusing speculation with investment is always a mistake.

The most striking thing about Graham's discussion of how to allocate your assets between stocks and bonds is that he never mentions the word "age".

The beauty of periodic rebalancing is that it forces you to base your investing decisions on a simple, objective standard.

There is no reason to feel any shame in hiring someone to pick stocks or mutual funds for you. But there's one responsibility that you must never delegate. You, and no one but you, must investigate whether an adviser is trustworthy and charges reasonable fees.

In an ideal world, the intelligent investor would hold stocks only when they are cheap and sell them when they become overpriced, then duck into the bunker of bonds and cash until stocks again become cheap enough to buy.

In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and emotional impossibility.

The investor should be aware that even though safety of its principal and interest may be unquestioned, a long term bond could vary widely in market price in response to changes in interest rates.

Nothing important on Wall Street can be counted on to occur exactly in the same way as it happened before.

Mr. Market's job is to provide you with prices; your job is to decide whether it is to your advantage to act on them. You no not have to trade with hime just because he constantly begs you to.

Speculative stock movements are carried too far in both directions, frequently in the general market and at all times in at least some of the individual issues.

To enjoy a reasonable chance for continued better than average results, the investor must follow policies which are (1) inherently sound and promising, and (2) not popular on Wall Street.

The investor who permits himself to be stampeded or unduly worried by unjustified market declines in his holdings is perversely transforming his basic advantage into a basic disadvantage.

The sillier the market's behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor.

No statement is more true and better applicable to Wall Street than the famous warning of Santayana: "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it".

We have not known a single person who has consistently or lastingly make money by thus "following the market". We do not hesitate to declare this approach is as fallacious as it is popular.

For 99 issues out of 100 we could say that at some price they are cheap enough to buy and at some price they would be so dear that they would be sold.

The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern.

Never mingle your speculative and investment operations in the same account nor in any part of your thinking.

At heart, "uncertainty" and "investing" are synonyms.

By refusing to pay too much for an investment, you minimize the chances that your wealth will ever disappear or suddenly be destroyed.

Losing some money is an inevitable part of investing, and there's nothing you can do to prevent it. But to be an intelligent investor, you must take responsibility for ensuring that you never lose most or all of your money.

There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification.

The best values today are often found in the stocks that were once hot and have since gone cold.

Investing is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.

The ideal form of common stock analysis leads to a valuation of the issue which can be compared with the current price to determine whether or not the security is an attractive purchase.

It's nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.

It should be remembered that a decline of 50% fully offsets a preceding advance of 100%.

The margin of safety is always dependent on the price paid. It will be large at one price, small at some higher price, nonexistent at some still higher price.

Traditionally the investor has been the man with patience and the courage of his convictions who would buy when the harried or disheartened speculator was selling.

Before you place your financial future in the hands of an adviser, it's imperative that you find someone who not only makes you comfortable but whose honesty is beyond reproach.

If fees consume more than 1% of your assets annually, you should probably shop for another adviser.

The stock market resembles a huge laundry in which institutions take in large blocks of each others washing ... without rhyme or reason.

The only thing you should do with pro forma earnings is ignore them.

High valuations entail high risks.