Investing Quotes

So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.

I’ve always said that a wise businessperson will support the ANC… because supporting the ANC means you’re investing very well in your business

We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry.

Volatility is a symptom that people have no idea of the underlying value.

The definition of a Dark Age is that we no longer remember what we once could do.

Picking the right stocks is one of the hardest parts of investing, and every night on Mad Money, I try to take some of that burden off your shoulders.

Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country's advantage at variance with its neighbours' as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.

Diversify your investments.

The investing public understands that you need to do things to position yourself.

A constant in my approach to investing: You should think politically but unconventionally.

The world we live in takes a multifaceted approach. To the American taxpayer: We need to be investing in improving people's lives before the terrorists try to take over.

We ignore outlooks and forecasts... we're lousy at it and we admit it ... everyone else is lousy too, but most people won't admit it.

Most people might just as well buy a share of the whole market, which pools all the information, than delude themselves into thinking they know something the market doesn't.

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.

Perhaps there really are managers who can outperform the market consistently - logic would suggest that they exist. But they are remarkably well-hidden.

Investing is the intersection of economics and psychology.

If only one word is to be used to describe what Baupost does, that word should be: 'Mispricing'. We look for mispricing due to over-reaction.

By investing at a discount, Benjamin Graham knew that he was unlikely to experience losses.

The real secret to investing is that there is no secret to investing.

Generally, the greater the stigma or revulsion, the better the bargain.

We are quite convinced that if he were alive today, as an astute businessman looking out to the future, he would be moving out of fossil fuels and investing in clean, renewable energy.

'Statistics' show that 66% of clients are cured with psychotherapy; what statistics don't show is that 72% are cured without it.

You realise the responsibility of carrying a film on your shoulders when people are investing money in you and they recognise the hard work you have to put in.

Ben's emphasis was on protecting his expectation of profit with minimum risk.

My job was to find stocks that were undervalued.

I was in Graham's office the day he bought GEICO. Warren owns one-third of the stock today.

All the publicity about value investing - it's become a very popular thing.

You know, people tend to like to buy companies that are doing well.

Try to establish the value of a company.

Warren is a very good judge of people and he's a very good judge of businesses.

One has to know more about a company if one buys earnings.

Our average holding period is four years.

Investing in Chicago property is just Wandas first move into the U.S. real estate market.

Always invest for the long term.

When the brothel burns down, even the pretty girls have to run out.

Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that "Price is what you pay; value is what you get." Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

The three most important words in investing...Margin of Safety.

Valuing a business is part art and part science.

Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change.

Cash never makes us happy, but it's better to have the money burning a hole in Berkshire's pocket than resting comfortably in someone else's.

The advice "you never go broke taking a profit" is foolish.

Remember that the stock market is manic-depressive.

Does the business have favourable long term prospects?

We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good.

I get to do what I like to do every single day of the year.

The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.

It's not debt per say that overwhelms an individual corporation or country. Rather it is a continuous increase in debt in relation to income that causes trouble.

As far as you are concerned, the stock market does not exist. Ignore it.

A hyperactive stock market is the pickpocket of enterprise.

Wall Street is littered with the bones of those who knew just what to do, but could not bring themselves to do it.