Investment Wisdom

If you pay too much for any asset you will get a poor future return and equities are no exception.
Paul Meredith, PDFM
May 1998
It is a mistake to think one limits one's risks by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little ... one's knowledge and experience are definitely limited.
John Maynard Keynes
1883 - 1946
The basic concept of value to a private owner and being motivated when you're buying and selling securities by reference to intrinsic value instead of price momentum - I don't think will ever be outdated.
Charlie T. Munger
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
St. Augustine
354 - 430 AD
Risk is not knowing what you are doing.
Warren Buffett
If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.
Sir James Goldsmith
There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.
Mark Twain
1835 - 1910
It is the nature of a speculative boom that almost anything can collapse it.
John Kenneth Galbraith
1908 - 2006
We don't believe in the Noah's Ark principle of investing, winding up with two of everything. Then you have a zoo.
Warren Buffett
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one man buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
William Feather
Capital allocation based on a company's index weighting with little consideration for the returns they generate or how they are discounted in the share price is a recipe for wealth destruction.
PDFM Occassional Paper No.4
February 1999
If, in your thinking, you rely entirely on others, often through the purchase of professional advice, whenever outside a small territory of your own, you will suffer much calamity.
Charlie T. Munger
Traditional wisdom can be long on tradition and short on wisdom.
Warren Buffett
Where all think alike, nobody thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
1889 - 1974
Business is Darwinism: only the fittest survive.
Robert Holmes A Court
I can calculate the motions of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
Sir Isaac Newton
1642 - 1727