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" There's a real company in Facebook and then a lot of pretenders riding their coat tails. "

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" One can't be a successful investor without a healthy dose of confidence. To commit your own and others' hard-earned capital requires conviction, and conviction requires confidence. But as with fine brandy or coffee ice cream, too much of a good thing can be problematic. "

" I'd say the general outline of a sound investment approach is, first of all, you have to decide are you going to try to be an investor yourself? The answer for most people is probably they shouldn't try. You should put your money in index funds and not try to be a stock picker. "

" Most chief executives rise to that position by being good operating managers. Few have extensive experience or training with capital allocation. What CEO wants to return excess cash to shareholders when it could be used to expand his or her empire? "

" In life, an abundance of confidence gives us higher motivation, persistence, and optimism and can allow us to accomplish things we otherwise might not have undertaken. "

" I love and celebrate good teachers, and it's critical that we do more to identify them and keep them happy and motivated. "

" I think that most people who complain about our government have no idea what they're talking about because they've never been to a country with a bad government. "

" One of the best places to look for value is what I call 'babies thrown out with the bathwater' - in other words, scour the most out-of-favour sectors for good companies whose stocks have been crushed due to overblown concerns about the industry that do not, in fact, have an impact on the company. "

" Netflix is a better company with more upside than we had given it credit for than when we shorted it. "

" Small-company stocks, like any asset class, can get picked over from time to time, but there are fundamental reasons why diligently mining them with an eye for unrecognised value can get market-beating returns. "

" I have long believed the corporate world is plagued by poor capital allocation decisions. "

" I think most people agree with the idea of shared sacrifice, but for many, when push comes to shove, that principle goes out the window. "

" I have never believed that large-cap stocks are too well followed to be anything but efficiently priced. "

" Wall Street, in the main, hates uncertainty, which manifests itself in depressed share prices of companies whose prospects lack 'visibility.' But where the market can err is in confusing uncertainty with risk. "

" If I bring to light a company that's poisoning customers, defrauding investors, or something like that... there just aren't enough regulators in the world to keep up with all of the fraud and malfeasance that goes on out there, particularly in the little nooks and crannies of the market. "

" Humans are hard-wired to be irrational when it comes to financial decisions. We must understand that so we don't become the sucker at the poker table. "

" The best way I know to get rich long-term is to invest prudently and conservatively and not try and get rich quick but try and get rich slowly, basically. "

" While everyone would love to have that perfect portfolio of stocks that can be bought and held forever, it usually does not work out that way. Markets, technology, and businesses change too quickly to put portfolios on autopilot. "

" Well-managed companies with independent boards have nothing to fear from activist shareholders. "

" Without doubt, timely and democratic access to financial and market information contributes to smoothly functioning financial markets. "

" My experience is that very few people have what it takes to be a successful investor, as I discussed in The Arrogance of Stock Picking. "

" It's difficult to fix a truly broken business, but when it happens, the returns can be extraordinary. "

" No one would suggest completely ignoring news about your investments. Enron investors, for example, would have been well served to sell once early reports of accounting irregularities surfaced. But the key is to keep news in context and act only if further reflection or study indicates that the core thesis for an investment has changed. "

" Mueller is the leading North American provider of water infrastructure and flow control products - things such as fire hydrants, valves, pipes, fittings, and couplings. While this is no doubt a mundane business, it is also an excellent one. "

" When reviewing one's portfolio, it is important to be aware of common mental mistakes that may lead to bad decisions. The most powerful is commitment bias, which, as manifested in investing, is the tendency to fall in love with one's stocks. "

" There are far too many ineffective teachers and, in particular, far too many truly terrible teachers who are harming children and poisoning the system. "

" When it comes to owning stocks of the best-known businesses in the world, value investors usually feel like children looking through the window of the candy store, unable to afford the treats inside because they refuse to pay the prices such high-quality franchises typically bear. "

" Nirvana, to a value investor, is paying a cheap price for a company that is growing in value every year at a nice rate - this largely explains why today we own stocks like Berkshire Hathaway, McDonald's, Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Costco and Anheuser-Busch. "

" The potential rewards of small-cap investing do not come without risk. "

" Many significant stock-price inefficiencies can occur when a company is spun off. "

" I am part of the 1 percent of the 1 percent. By that, I mean that I am fortunate to be a wealthy American, and I say, 'It's okay to raise my taxes.' "