Investing Quotes

Some kinds of stocks are easier to analyse than others.

We don't put the same amount of money in each stock.

Growth and value investing are joined at the hip.

Lethargy, bordering on sloth should remain the cornerstone of an investment style.

There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it

It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations.

Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed.

Nothing important on Wall Street can be counted on to occur exactly in the same way as it happened before.

The ideal form of common stock analysis leads to a valuation of the issue which can be compared with the current price to determine whether or not the security is an attractive purchase.

Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have even more meaning

The only intelligence investing is value investing...to acquire more than one is paying for.

Many of the biggest and most far-reaching investments we make in our lives are investments that have little or nothing to do with money.

Timing is everything in this markets.

Wait until companies have an initial prototype, have shown that they have the potential to be profitable and have the ability to scale. That's the best time to invest.

I would not pre-pay. I would invest instead and let the investments cover it.

Cryptography [without system integrity] is like investing in an armored car to carry money between a customer living in a cardboard box and a person doing business on a park bench.

Globalization has rendered the world increasingly interdependent, but international politics is still based on the sovereignty of states.

It's one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment.

My advice to this investor is the same that I give to the young investors in my classes Devote the same earnest attention to investing that $50,000 as you devoted to earning it.

If I have any claim to originality, I do it by investing my own personality into it, so it's coming from a slightly more sardonic, English point of view.

I believe the only things that really matter in investing are the bubbles and the busts

I learned very early in my investing careers: I better not invest in what I want. I better invest in what's happening in the world. Otherwise I'll be broke - dead broke.

Managed funds are astonishingly tax-inefficient.

One's knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.

Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising

If I'd only followed CNBC's advice, I'd have a million dollars today. Provided I'd started with a hundred million dollars.

Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.

Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition.

For me it's all about keeping things simple and feeling comfortable in what I am wearing. I prefer investing in classic well-tailored pieces.

I think anyone who isn't investing in Nigeria is missing out. If you look at Nigeria today, literally all of the business class cabins are full of foreigners, because these guys see opportunity.

Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don't do any work.

The more cash that builds up in the treasury, the greater the pressure to piss it away.

The junior high schools and high schools of America have forgotten to teach one of the most important courses of all. Investing.

The worst thing you can do is invest in companies you know nothing about. Unfortunately, buying stocks on ignorance is still a popular American pastime.

You can find good reasons to scuttle your equities in every morning paper and on every broadcast of the nightly news.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, in business, so is a number.

Investing and connecting are the key factors in turning any intention into reality.

Business and investing are team sports.

The only certainty is that there is no certainty.

As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius.

We are big fans of fear, and in investing it is clearly better to be scared than sorry.

The cost of performing well in bad times can be relative underperformance in good times.

It's hard to find ideas that aren't picked over and harder to get real returns and differentiate yourself. We are entering a new environment. The days of big returns are gone.

The cardinal maxim is, that any aid to a present bad Bank is the surest mode of preventing the establishment of a future good Bank.

Be aware of the level of the stock market. Are yields low and PE ratios high?

Try not to let your emotions affect your judgement.

Look at companies selling at new lows.

I like the idea of company-paid dividends.