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If you don't study any companies, you have the same success buying stocks as you do in a poker game if you bet without looking at your cards.

( Peter Lynch )

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

( Albert Einstein )

The function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

( John Kenneth Galbraith )

Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

( Paul Samuelson )

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

( Benjamin Graham )

The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator.

( Ben Graham )

In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable.

( Robert Arnott )