“The practice of creating chartered joint-stock companies of a modern type seems to have begun at the commencement of the seventeenth century; and the formation of the East India Company is one of the earliest, if not the very earliest, examples. At first, it appears, the 'joint stock' of the company was separately made up for each ship; perhaps for each voyage. But, in the year 1612 the Company made the momentous resolve to have one joint stock for the whole of its affairs, and thus inaugurated a new epoch. The East India Company, or Companies, (for there were two of them), were followed by the Hudson's Bay Company (1670), the existence of which was recognized by statute in 1707, and by the Bank of England and the notorious South Sea Company.”

Vol. I, Ch. 31, pg. 827.
(Buch I) (1867)

Source: Theory of Economic Dynamics (1965), Chapter 8, Entrepreneurial Capital and Investment, p. 93

Part 2, Chapter 7, Companies, Owners, and Profit, p. 91
Economics For Everyone (2008)

Source: (1776), Book V, Chapter I, Part III, Article I, p. 810.

Part V, The Next Barrier, Fleece Bank Internet Conference 1999, p. 177.
Running Money (2004) First Edition
Context: I've been doing this for years. Never invest in a company with the target price for the stock in the name of the company.

Part V, The Next Barrier, Do Stocks Talk?, p. 181.
Running Money (2004) First Edition

Part VI, Burst, Morgan Stanley Tech Conference 2001, p. 229.
Running Money (2004) First Edition

Source: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 48

Interview in Forbes magazine (1 November 1974)
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.