Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Excitement: Don't expect

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

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Predictions of economists

Economists make predictions because they're asked, not because they know.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Eager to search

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

- John Templeton

Old saying

As the old saying goes, what the wise man does in the beginning, fools do in the end.

- Warren Buffett

Government

A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have.

- Thomas Jefferson

Commonality Broker has with the Doctor

Your broker is like a doctor who charges his patients on how often they change medicines, and he is paid more not for what will make you better but rather from the stuff that the street is promoting.

- Warren Buffett