Locked-in Plans

After several failures, I finally remembered some advice I once got from a golf pro:  "Practice doesn't make perfect; practice makes permanent."  Therefore I revised my stratagy and tried to buy good businesses at fair prices rather than fair businesses at good prices.

Warren Buffett

Whatever method you use to pick stocks of stock mutual funds, your ultimate success or failure will depend on your ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow your investments to succeed. It isn’t the head but the stomach that determines the fate of the stock-picker.

Peter Lynch

Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.

Peter Lynch

If the Market keeps going the way it shouldn't go, especially if it is a hysterical blowoff, then you know an opportunity will present itself.

Jim Rogers

Just about every time you go against panic, you will be right if you can stick it out.

Jim Rogers

If you are susceptible to selling everything in panic, you ought to avoid stocks.

Peter Lynch

Everybody remembers the dark side of the 1987 crash, but they tend to forget what a great buying opportunity it was.

Graham Hooper

Buy a share of stock as though you were buying the whole company.

Warren Buffett

I have an edge because a lot of people I compete with are not looking for reasons to buy.  They are looking for reasons not to buy.

Peter Lynch

For the investor who knows what he is doing, volatility creates opportunity.

John Train

If you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.

Peter Lynch

Believe in the old Chinese saying:  Crisis = Danger + Opportunity.

Michael Lee-Chin

When the market plummets, neither panic nor mourn.

Warren Buffett

Your beliefs about the market create your reality about the market.

Bill Williams

Change is the investor’s only certainty.

T. Rowe Price

You do better to make a few large bets and sit back and wait…There are huge mathematical advantages to doing nothing.

Charles Munger

Many investors jump into and out of even the best funds as market conditions change, dramatically lowering their returns. It does little good to purchase the right stocks or funds if the next time the market trembles you find yourself scurrying to the safety of money market assets.

Jeremy J. Siegel

A stock market decline is a great opportunity to pick up bargains left behind by investors who are fleeing the storm of panic.

Peter Lynch

The stock market demands conviction; it victimizes the unconvinced.

Peter Lynch

When markets and investors get emotional, it creates fantastic buying opportunities, because there's no discrimination between what should go down and what does go down.

Yves Tack

A crash does not come knocking at the front door by appointment.

Jim Slater

You have to make a decision to buy or sell or do nothing and often doing nothing can be the right thing.

Stephen Peak

In the short run, the stock market is a voting machine: in the long run, it's a weighing machine.

Benjamin Graham

The market is always making mountains out of molehills and exaggerating ordinary vicissitudes into major setbacks.

Benjamin Graham

Don't Think about what the market's going to do; you have absolutely no control over that. Think about what you're going to do if it gets there.

William Eckhardt

As far as I am concerned, the stock market doesn't exist.  It is only there as a reference to see if anybody is offering to do anything foolish.

Warren Buffett

One of the safest times to invest is when the news is awful and markets are depressed: the Time of Deepest Gloom.

John Train