“Regardless of the reason, some investors tend to get overly excited about stocks that have done very well in the past, buy them up, and these ‘glamour’ stocks become overpriced.” – Van Den Berg
“The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don’t have to swing at everything – you can wait for your pitch. The problem when you’re a money manager is that your fans keep yelling, ‘Swing, you bum!’” – Warren Buffett
“…it’s a matter of ‘patience and discipline — you need them in both investing and poker.'” – John Rogers
“…an analyst’s worst fear was that he would do something that would allow him to be singled out for jeopardizing Moody’s market share, for impairing Moody’s revenue or for damaging Moody’s relationships with its clients, and lose his job as a result.” – Mark Froeba
“If the rating agencies will downgrade only when we can all see the losses, then why do we need the rating agencies?“ – Jim Chanos
“Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q. once you’re above the level of 25. Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.” – Warren Buffett
“Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful.” – Warren Buffett
“If only one word is to be used to describe what Baupost does, that word should be: ‘Mispricing’. We look for mispricing due to over-reaction.” – Seth Klarman
“The market can move for irrational reasons, and you have to be prepared for that.” – Bill Gross
“The daily blips of the market are, in fact, noise—noise that is very difficult for most investors to tune out.” – Seth Klarman
“We all have the tendency to be influenced by short-term events – and that tendency makes people stock market speculators.” – Charles Brandes
“Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble…to give way to hope, fear, and greed.” – Benjamin Graham
“Stock market bubbles don’t grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.” – George Soros
“It’s unnatural for humans to think totally different from the crowd.” – Charles Brandes
“When the herd is single-mindedly focused…prices are frequently bid up and returns driven down.” – Seth Klarman
“I’d be a bum on the street with a tin cup if the markets were efficient.” – Warren Buffett
“Curiosity can be shifted from the form and content of thoughts in order to become aware of the silent nascent field of consciousness/awareness itself. Silence is of the self; thoughts are of the self.” – David R. Hawkins
“Your ability to do something in the world essentially depends on the extent to which you are capable of harnessing your body and mind towards your goal, and after that, harnessing the situation in which you exist.” – Sadhguru
“Within limits, we tend to experience the reflection of what we have become.” – David R. Hawkins