When good things are so low that no one wants them, I buy them and lay them away in the safe; when owing to some new development, they go up and my shares are so needed that men will pay well for them, I am ready to sell.

Invest like a bull, sit like a bear and watch like an eagle. (mantra for long term investing)

Don’t always trust what you see. In a bull market even a duck looks like a swan.

Chase the story behind the stock, not the money on the table. Money will make you rich, but the story will make you wealthy.

Don’t learn literature from a history teacher.

If the management has not performed well in their bad times in the past, chances are they will not perform well in their good times in the future too.

There is large cap, mid cap, small cap. There is also a “BHANGAAR CAP”. More than 4000 out of 6000 companies fit in that category. They show up only in the good times. Be careful

When kids come on the dance floor it’s time for elders to go to the bed.

Your investment belongs to the market and your profits belong to you.

Regret is a lifestyle disease of equity investing.

A bull market is very much like being in love. You don’t realise its value till it’s gone.

Rome was not built in a day, but Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed in a day.

A bull doesn’t go wrong in predicting an upswing in a falling market. He goes wrong when he predicts a down swing in a rising market.

Investing is a business, investment is a project and investor is a promoter.

In order to win as a contrarian, you need perfect timing and the perfect size.

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Make your money on the buy, not the sell; this is true in any investment whether it's real estate, business, or the stock market.

Reliability investing requires finding companies trading below their inherent worth--stocks with strong fundamentals including earnings, dividends, book value, and cash flow selling at bargain prices give their quality.

We can't all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the pie.

We don’t live in a free market society… markets are controlled by the major players who influence legislation to perpetuate their control...

Ban short-selling, high speed trading and all other instruments of pure speculation

Don’t lose good opportunities waiting for better opportunities

Fifteen years ago, this would have been insider trading, but that quaint concept had disappeared a decade or two ago when so many brokers were doing it that it was impossible to jail them all. Now it was called smart trading.

There is no point in poverty if it does not make a rich man, observing it, feel better.

A dutiful wife enables a good man to add her hands to his own for self-applause.

It takes a lot of wind to sail a leaky boat.

The past is an educational toy for the present. It should be discarded the moment its usefulness is outgrown.

Marriage is the legal method devised to end love without pain.

I love supporting blue chip companies’ revival. Shows wise when you are on the top and you are still not ignorant & arrogant to realise your weaknesses.

All through time, people have basically acted and reacted the same way in the market as a result of greed, fear, ignorance, and hope. That is why the numerical formations and patternsrecur on a constant basis. Over and over, with slight variations. Because markets are driven by humans and human nature never changes.

The reason for what a certain stock does today may not be known for two or three days, or weeks, or months. But what the dickens does that matter? Your business with the tape is now - not tomorrow! The reason can wait. But you must act instantly or be left.

Trader has to reverse what you might call his natural impulses. Instead of hoping he must fear; instead of fearing he must hope. He must fear that his loss may develop into a much bigger loss, and hope that his profit may become a big profit.

You will never be a greater risk-taker in the markets if you approach life with a completely different attitude.