Anthony Bolton's all-time top investment quotes (part one)

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As the deadline approaches for subscriptions into Anthony Bolton's much-anticipated Fidelity China Special Situations investment trust, IFAonline and Investment Week bring you more than 20 of the legendary stock picker's favourite investment quotes.

The first instalment in a three-part series this week, the quotes were taken from the contrarian investor's 2009 book Investing Against The Tide.   "You should invest in a business that even a fool can run, because someday a fool will." Warren Buffett "You should look at stocks as small pieces of business." Warren Buffett "One of your partners, named Mr Market, is very obliging indeed. Every day he tells you what he thinks your interest is worth and, furthermore, offers to buy you out or to sell you an additional interest on that basis. Sometimes his idea of value appears plausi...

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