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718 Investor Quotes

When interest rates are low we have conditions for asset bubbles to develop, and they are developing at the moment. The ultimate asset bubble is gold.

Interest rate Low Conditions Asset bubbles
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I called gold the ultimate bubble, which means it may go higher. But it’s certainly not safe and it’s not going to last forever.

Called gold Ultimate bubble Higher Safe
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Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the participant in the economic process, lacks objectivity.

Economic Science Objective Scientific
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If I had to sum up my practical skills, I would use one word: survival. And operating a hedge fund utilized my training in survival to the fullest.

Sum up Skills Survival Operating
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The hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe
Hardest thing Judge Risk Safe
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Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.

More complex System Greater Error
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Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test. The main difference is that the hypothesis that underlies an investment decision is intended to make money and not to establish a universally valid generalization

Investment decision Scientific hypothesis
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Taking this view, it is possible to see financial markets as a laboratory for testing hypotheses, albeit not strictly scientific ones. The truth is, successful investing is a kind of alchemy.

View Possible Financial Hypotheses
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The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in futility).

Concept General equilibrium Relevance Real world
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The only thing that could hurt me is if my success encouraged me to return to my childhood fantasies of omnipotence -- but that is not likely to happen as long as I remain engaged in the financial markets, because they constantly remind me of my limitations.

Hurt me Success Return Childhood
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If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one's conceptions and what one does about them. Life can be seen as a fertile fallacy.

Carry Argument Logical conclusion Life
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When you sell options, you get paid for assuming risk. That can be a profitable business, but it does not mix well with the risks inherent in a leveraged portfolio.

Sell options Assuming risk Profitable business
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I contend that financial markets never reflect the underlying reality accurately; they always distort it in some way or another and the distortions find expression in market prices. Those distortions can, occasionally, find ways to affect the fundamentals that market prices are supposed to reflect

Contend Financial market Never reflect
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It is only the future in which I am really vitally interested.

Only Future Vitally interested
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Do the impossible, because almost everyone has told me my ideas are merely fantasies.

Impossible Almost everyone Ideas Fantasies
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Passion will make you crazy, but is there any other way to live?

Passion You crazy Live
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Sure striving for doing the impossible means being obsessed, it’s constant persistence. But isn’t this a sign of a life worth living, rather than one spent sitting on the sofa?

Doing Impossible Being obsessed Constant persistence
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I intend to be, the richest man in the world.

Intended Richest man World
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I want to be remembered for only one thing: my contribution to aviation.

I want Remembered Contribution Aviation
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I am by nature a perfectionist, and I seem to have trouble allowing anything to go through in a half-perfect condition. So if I made any mistake it was in working too hard and in doing too much of it with my own hands.

By nature Perfectionist Trouble Mistake
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I am willing to go beyond all limitations

Willing To go All limitations
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If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.

Worked on Assumption True Hope
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If you have a workforce that enjoys each other, they trust each other, they trust management, they’re proud of where they work – then they’re going to deliver a good product.

Workforce Enjoys Trust management Good product
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Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
Men Wise Become rich Save
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I have my own religion. My conception of religion is being to the other fellow what you would like for him to be to you and do what you think is necessary to be the type of man that God could appreciate

Own religion My conception Fellow God
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This is a business. The purpose of a business is to make money. If it happens to make art, too, that would be secondary and accidental.

Business Make money Art Accidental
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Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

Living Dream Yesterday Impossible
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It’s so important to experience what your customers are experiencing and listen to their suggestions

Important Experience Customers Suggestions
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Adventure is the essence of life.
Adventure Essence Life
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The trouble with my life is that I do not think I am cut out to sit behind a desk

Trouble Life Think Sit
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About all else, I want to be the most famous man in the world. And I don’t care by what means I become famous, as long as fame comes.

Most famous World What means
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Never make a decision. Let someone else make it and then if it turns out to be the wrong one, you can disclaim it, and if it is the right one you can abide by it.

Never Make decision Wrong one Disclaim
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Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.

Speak English Incapable Internet Regarded as
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Ethics to me is very important.

Ethnics Very important
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No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or any other company in the world.

No company Should depend One person Smart
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Those people behind the mosque have to respect, have to appreciate and have to defer to the people of New York. The wound is still there. Just because the wound is healing you can't say, 'Let's just go back to where we were pre-9/11.

Those people Behind The mosque Respect
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Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion.

Most government Pragmatic Logical Pockets
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I will always serve my country in any capacity, but I'm very happy with what I'm doing right now.

Always serve My country Capacity Happy
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I cannot invest the way I want the world to be; I have to invest the way the world is.

Invest Way Want World
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Following what everyone else is doing is rarely a way to get rich.

Following Everyone Rarely Rich
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If anybody laughs at your idea, view it as a sign of potential success!

Laughs Idea Potential Success
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If you want to make a lot of money, resist diversification.

Want Money Resist Diversification
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You will never get anywhere if you do not do your homework.

You Never Get anywhwer Homework
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Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob.

Act Thinking Facts Chances
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History shows that people who save and invest grown and prosper, and the others deteriorate and collapse.

History People Invest Prosper
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Lady Luck smiles on those who continue their efforts
Lady Luck Continue Efforts
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I’ve got one shot going through this life. I want to make sure I do as much as I can.

One shot Life Want I can
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The first loss is the best loss.

First Loss Best
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Buy low and sell high. It's pretty simple. The problem is knowing what's low and what's high.

Buy low Sell high Simple Problem
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Everyone has special talents, and it is our duty to find ours and use them well.

Everyone Talents Duty Use
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