Stock Market Investing: Some Words of Wisdom

With all of the turmoil and uncertainty about the stock market, here six good quotes from Warren Buffet:

1. The future is never clear, and you pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.

2. The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - sometimes pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It's optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer.

3. Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well.

4. Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should try to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.

5. The stock market is designed to transfer money from the active to the patient.

6. If you don't feel comfortable owning something for 10 years, then don't own it for 10 minutes.