“Buy a business, don’t rent stocks.”
“But it’s just as Mr. Brisbane and I have been constantly telling you, "Don’t gamble"; take all your savings and buy some good stock, and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it.”
Daily Telegram #1019, Thoughts Of Will Rogers On The Late Slumps In Stocks (31 October 1929)
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Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 10.
"Elisabetta Canalis: I’d Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur" https://www.peta.org/features/elisabetta-canalis-rather-go-naked-wear-fur/, interview with PETA (8 September 2011).
Paragraphs by Robert Quillen, Detroit Free Press, 4 June 1928. (via Newspapers.com)
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Context: Draw a circle around the businesses you understand and then eliminate those that fail to qualify on the basis of value, good management and limited exposure to hard times. … Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up. … People have been successful investors because they've stuck with successful companies. Sooner or later the market mirrors the business.
“Olivia Munn's Exclusive Interview for PETA,” video on PETA's YouTube channel (27 April 2010) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9Qcq2j2tKA.
“Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
Source: You Can't Go Home Again