How you should behave after the dust has settled

We need help to remain steadfast if markets are falling all around us, and to keep investing, or at least analysing.  There are some timeless ideas that might help:

Abnormally good or abnormally bad conditions do not last forever.  This is true not only of general business but of particular industries as well.  Corrective forces are usually set in motion which tend to restore profits where they have disappeared, or to reduce them where they are excessive in relation to capital

Benjamin Graham

As far as I’m concerned the stock market does not exist. It is there only as a reference to see if anyone is doing anything foolish.

Warren Buffett

The true contrarian waits for things to cool down and buys stocks that nobody cares about, and especially those that make Wall Street yawn

Peter Lynch

Masterly inactivity. 

                                                 Charles Munger (and, I think, Winston Churchill)

Although it’s easy to forget it sometimes, a sha…

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