That is why investors get lured into buying dotcom stocks in the hope that a “greater fool” will purchase them at a higher price.

正因为如此，人们会禁不住诱惑去买网络股，希望会有“更大的傻瓜”在更高的价格购买这些股票。

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The more riches a fool hath, the greater fool he is.

愚蠢的人越是富有，就越愚蠢。

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A fool always finds a greater fool than himself.

傻瓜总能找到比自己更傻的人。

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Despite its high-profile venture capitalists, it never found the greater fool it so badly needed.

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His deal for the company was built around an employee stock-ownership plan that would create big gains for them if Zell later sold to another buyer--a greater fool?

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But taken to extremes, this is greater-fool investing, and it has a way of ending badly.

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