John Templeton Quotes
If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.
Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.
To buy when others are despondently selling and sell when others are greedily buying requires the greatest fortitude and pays the greatest reward.
Sell a stock only when you have found a new stock that is a 50% better bargain than the one that you hold.
For those properly prepared, the bear market is not only a calamity but an opportunity.
A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then.
An attitude of gratitude creates blessings. Help yourself by helping others. You have the most powerful weapons on earth - love and prayer.
The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.'
I have observed 100,000 families over my years of investment counseling. I always saw greater prosperity and happiness among those families who tithed than among those who didn't.
It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.
If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.
The person who is willing to say yes to experience is the person who discovers new frontiers.
What happens to us in life is less important; the real question can be whether or not we use the experience to grow.
I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been.
Never forget: the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for others.
Outperforming the majority of investors requires doing what they are not doing. Buying when others have despaired, and selling when they are full of hope, takes fortitude.
Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use your mind it begins to fail.
Let's worship Divinity, but understand the divinity we worship is beyond our comprehension.
Surprising and interesting things happen to those who keep their eyes and their minds open and alert!
Wherever we are and whatever we are doing, it is possible to learn something that can enrich our lives and the lives of others... No one's education is ever complete.
Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose?
Three of my children are medical doctors; they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.
Basic reality seems to be that the more you try to be like God by radiating unlimited love, the more you become flooded by waves of love from others and from God.
Living life with a smile is like throwing yeast into a bowl of flour, adding warm water and waiting for the flour to rise. It multiplies may times over.
Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialists overlook by getting trapped in the purely physical.
It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something very different.
It is only by understanding the emotion of others that an investor has a chance to produce superior results.
As we learn to share and give and care, love increases. A person who knows how to love does not seem to feel lonely or alone. In this sense, the power of love can become a true weapon against harm.
The commitment of giving your best at all times, in all circumstances and under all conditions, can enable you to find value in, and lend value to, every experience.
For all long-term investors, there is only one objective-maximum total real return after taxes.
