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I think you have to learn that there’s a company behind every stock, and that
there’s only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly
to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.

—Peter Lynch, Fidelity Fund manager

In confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with
substance.

—James Surowiecki, journalist (from The New Yorker magazine, November 9, 2009) When buying
shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?

—Rene Rivkin, Australian entrepreneur, investor, and investment advisor

Do your own investigation into a company before investing in it. Don’t rely on
the media or stock analysts since they have their own agendas.

—Tom Ajamie and Bruce Kelly, coauthors of Financial Serial Killers: Inside the World of Wall
Street Money Hustlers, Swindlers, and Con Men

If it was my business, I wouldn’t talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about
one’s business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner
parties.

—Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how
good something sounds on paper. The second is that you’re generally better off
sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best
investments are the ones you don’t make.