The Wit & Wisdom of Wall Street
By Bob Thomas
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The Wit & Wisdom of Wall Street - Bob Thomas
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Introduction
Wall Street is much more than, as one cynic put it, a thoroughfare that begins in a graveyard and ends in a river.
Rather, Wall Street is the heart of corporate finance in the U.S. and symbolic of investing in the stock market. For many investors, it has proven to be a street paved with gold—while others have truly experienced a ‘nightmare on Wall Street.’
Scores of books and magazine articles have been written over the years detailing how to get rich quick by playing the stock market using a variety of strategies and gimmicks. The truth is, there are no shortcuts and you will not outsmart the market—for very long. But it is very possible to create wealth by investing in the stocks of some of the great companies in America.
Warren Buffett, one of the richest men in the world, accumulated his tremendous wealth by being a savvy and patient investor in the stock market. In fact, he once described his investment philosophy as lethargy bordering on sloth.
The Wit & Wisdom of Wall Street includes quotes from leading investment gurus such as Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, John Templeton, Jason Zueig, and many others, along with axioms, one-liners, and clever cartoons from the esteemed New Yorker magazine; all about investing on Wall Street. Hopefully, you will be entertained and amused by the wit—but more importantly, you should become wealthier and wiser from the wisdom.
The stock market is like a beauty contest; you shouldn’t necessarily pick the prettiest girl—pick the one everyone else thinks is the prettiest.
– John Maynard Keynes
Be greedy when others are fearful—and fearful when others are greedy.
– Warren Buffett
Every time someone buys, someone sells—and both think they’re brilliant.
By ignoring the losers and taking profits in the winners—you eventually end up with a portfolio of losers.
The stock market depends about as much on stock market analysts as the weather does on weather forecasters.
Fundamental analysis will tell