When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap. - Peter Lynch

A person who owns property and has a stake in the enterprise is likely to work harder and feel happier and do a better job than a person who doesn’t.

If you find a stock with little or no institutional ownership, you’ve found a potential winner. Find a company that no analyst has ever visited, or that no analyst would admit to knowing about, and you’ve got a double winner. When I talk to a company that tells me the last analyst showed up three years ago, I can hardly contain my enthusiasm. It frequently happens with banks, savings-and-loans, and insurance companies, since there are thousands of these and Wall Street only keeps up with fifty to one hundred.

Most individual investors would be better off in an index mutual fund.