Investment is most successful when it is most business like

Temperament is also important. Independent thinking, emotional stability, and a keen understanding of both human and institutional behaviour is vital to long-term investment success. - Warren Buffet

Investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game

Don't follow the crowd blinding investing. Sometimes the best opportunities are found in the places others overlook.

Value investors have to be patient and disciplined, but what I really think is that you need not to be greedy. If you are greedy and you leverage, you blow up. Almost every financial blow up is because of leverage.

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

Buy stocks as you would groceries: when they are on sale.