Investing Quotes

That's not to say there's no such thing as an overvalued market, but there's no point worrying about it.

Rigor is always appropriate when investing in markets, whatever the ultimate conclusions may be.

Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market.

Sometimes buying early on the way down looks like being wrong, but it isn't.

Most investors are primarily oriented toward return, how much they can make and pay little attention to risk, how much they can lose.

Don't be afraid to be a loner but be sure that you are correct in your judgement.

We basically followed the idea of buying comapnies selling below working-capital - at two thirds of working-capital.

You have to have confidence in what you're doing.

Graham liked the idea of protection on the downside.

Yes, Warren has done very well.

I liked the results of the profits in the markets.

Ben was a great believer in buying a diversified group of securities, so that he limited his risk.

You have to be a little aware of the emotions of the people who have invested with you.

Before selling, try to re-evaluate the company again and see where the stock sells in realtion to its book value.

The greatest Enemies of the Equity investor are Expenses and Emotions.

Sound investing can make you very wealthy if you're not in too big a hurry

Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom.

The critical investment factor is determining the intrinsic value of a business and paying a fair or bargain price.

Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good companies.

We like to buy businesses, but we don't like to sell them.

The ideal business is one that earns very high returns on capital and that keeps using lots of capital at those high returns. That becomes a compounding machine.

You shouldn't own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.

Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.

Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.

If your broker or investment advisor is not familiar with the concept of standard deviation of returns, get a new one.

Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important

The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people!

To restore America's competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools.

The only thing you should do with pro forma earnings is ignore them.

The memory of the financial community is proverbially and distressingly short.

(On being the world's richest man) I wish I wasn't ... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

There are two hedges I know of; one is cash and the other is knowledge.

The surest way to find an actively managed fund that will have top-quartile returns is to look for a fund that has bottom-quartile expenses.

A cell is a complex structure, with its investing membrane, nucleus, and nucleolus.

In most bull markets there comes a time when the public controls fluctuations and the efforts of the largest operators are insufficient to check the rising tide.

I had a couple come in with a negative amortization mortgage on a house that costs way too much relative to their income. They're consuming real estate, not investing in it.

One of the big problems with growth investing is that we can't estimate earnings very well. I really want to buy growth at value prices. I always look at trailing earnings when I judge stocks.

You're generally better off sticking with what you know.

The principle of investing is that by use you possess and gain, by disuse you decline and lose.

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.

As I discovered, there is a great deal of similarity between a boom-bust process in the financial markets and the rise and fall of the Soviet system.

The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in futility).

When you sell options, you get paid for assuming risk. That can be a profitable business, but it does not mix well with the risks inherent in a leveraged portfolio.

Investing solely for 'income,' investing merely 'to keep capital employed,' and investing simply 'to hedge against inflation' are all entirely out of the question.

I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.

One of the ways you go after the debt, one of the ways you create jobs is by investing in people.