Quotes About Investing Quotes tagged as "investing" (showing 1-30 of 74)
“It's nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don't want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it's a little like saving sex for your old age.” ― Warren Buffett
“When money realizes that it is in good hands, it wants to stay and multiply in those hands.” ― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
“Games are won by players who focus on the playing field –- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.” ― Warren Buffett
“Money is always eager and ready to work for anyone who is ready to employ it.” ― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
“October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.” ― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
“Investors should be skeptical of history-based models. Constructed by a nerdy-sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the like, these models tend to look impressive. Too often, though, investors forget to examine the assumptions behind the models. Beware of geeks bearing formulas. ” ― Warren Buffett
“Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble” ― Warren Buffett
“It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble.” ― Robert J. Shiller
“If you aren't thinking about owning a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes.” ― Warren Buffett
“If you invest nothing, the reward is worth little.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich
“Acknowledge the complexity of the world and resist the impression that you easily understand it. People are too quick to accept conventional wisdom, because it sounds basically true and it tends to be reinforced by both their peers and opinion leaders, many of whome have never looked at whether the facts support the received wisdom. It's a basic fact of life that many things "everybody knows" turn out to be wrong.” ― Jim Rogers “The broker said the stock was "poised to move." Silly me, I thought he meant up.” ― Randy Thurman
“Buffett's methodology was straightforward, and in that sense 'simple.' It was not simple in the sense of being easy to execute. Valuing companies such as Coca-Cola took a wisdom forged by years of experience; even then, there was a highly subjective element. A Berkshire stockholder
once complained that there were no more franchises like Coca-Cola left. Munger tartly rebuked him. 'Why should it be easy to do something that, if done well two or three times, will make your family rich for life?” ― Roger Lowenstein, Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist “Speculation is an effort, probably unsuccessful, to turn a little money into a lot. Investment is an effort, which should be successful, to prevent a lot of money from becoming a little.” ― Fred Schwed Jr., Where Are the Customers' Yachts?: Or a Good Hard Look at Wall Street “You can get in way more trouble with a good idea than a bad idea, because you forget that the good idea has limits.” ― Ben Graham “Investing money is the process of committing resources in a strategic way to accomplish a specific objective.” ― Alan Gotthardt, The Eternity Portfolio
“Then it is your opinion…that a man should never-“ -Invest in portable property in a friend?”… “Certainly he should not. Unless he wants to get rid of the friend- and then it becomes a question how much portable property it may be worth to get rid of him.” ― Charles Dickens
“Saving is a great habit but without investing and tracking, it just sleeps” ― Manoj Arora, From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom
“At the end of the day, if you’re wasting your time by not investing in yourself, you’re going to waste away—and that would be the greatest waste of all.” ― Richie Norton
“Nearly every time I strayed from the herd, I've made a lot of money. Wandering away from the action is the way to find the new action.” ― Jim Rogers
“In 2008, when almost every other investor got crushed, and even the Wall Street 'experts' were down by almost half, I was up 17 percent - beating the S&P Average by over 50 percent. Reminiscences of a Stock Market Flea” ― James J. Houts
“Everyday i meet with clients including widows and divorcees who have the same fears about money and it's my role to empower them, and women in general, to take control of their finances and create a plan.” ― Maili Wong, Smart Risk: Invest Like The Wealthy To Achieve A Work-Optional Life
“I think the very best attitude for anyone investing in the stock market is to make up his mind to lose money.” — The Duchess Gloriana XII” ― Leonard Wibberley “In 2008, when almost every other investor got crushed, and even the Wall Street "experts" were down by almost half, I was up 17 percent - beating the S&P Average by over 50 percent. Reminiscences of a Stock Market Flea” ― James J. Houts
“Smart Risk will shatter the emotional myths to investing and help Canadians see the opportunities in today's volatile market.” ― Maili Wong, Smart Risk: Invest Like The Wealthy To Achieve A Work-Optional Life “Be a Flea, not a Bull or a Bear. Don't delay, retire anyway. Trading is NOT a four letter word. Buy carefully, sell aggressively. Don't mark duds while drinking. When your plan fails, change it. Don't be slow, don't be greedy. Don't be obtuse with a machine gun pointed at you. There's still time to build wealth and retire well. The Stock Market Flea: Lessons from the Front” ― James J. Houts, The Stock Market Flea: Lessons from the Front “Some people will each start investing more of their salary on ‘their’ house and spending less of it on ‘their’ car or cars only when they start being able to take ‘their’ house to work, funerals, weddings, etc.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Keeping your ear to the ground in the Markets is a sound investment.” ― Amah Lambert “Never invest in any scheme that is based on a metaphor, or anything with the word, “next”, in it (e.g., “this kid is the next Elvis Presley”, “this will be the Lake Lucerne of the Southwest”). You will lose your shirt.” ― Clifford Cohen “There are no good or bad stocks. The company is either good or bad. Stocks are just stocks.” ― Kenneth L. Fisher, Beat the Crowd: How You Can Out-Invest the Herd by Thinking Differently