Investing Quotes

The probable is what usually happens.

Before I came along, my field was dominated by myth, superstition, deceit, and outright fraud. I overcame it by the simple application of logical thinking.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.

Question: So investors shouldn't delude themselves about beating the market? Answer: "They're just not going to do it. It's just not going to happen."

Confidence in a forecast rises with the amount of information that goes into it. But the accuracy of the forecast stays the same.

Risk means more things can happen than will happen.

Owning the intellectual property is like owning land: You need to keep investing in it again and again to get a payoff; you can't simply sit back and collect rent.

There is safety in numbers.

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them.

When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'

If I were investing in oil and gas stocks, there is one question I would ask CEO's: What portion of your capital is going to have to go in to stay even

You want to be greedy when others are fearful.

Most people aren't cut out for value investing, because human nature shrinks from pain.

The current financial crisis calls out for new products and services as well as more, not less, information about what is safe and profitable in the future environment.

Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.

A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.

It's one of the ironies of investing. The rich can afford to take risks, but they don't need to. The poor need to take risks, but they often can't afford to.

Since a relationship involves two members investing in it, its value increases twice as fast as one's investment.

I plan to eliminate regulations that hinder domestic companies, particularly large conglomerates from investing in other companies.

It's much more profitable to sell investing advice than to follow it.

Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.

In the financial world it tends to be misleading to state, "There is no free lunch." Rather the more meaningful comment is, "Somebody has to pay for lunch."

We attracted a lot of market timers and asset allocators. I don't need those ... amateurs in my fund.

Very little evidence was found that any individual fund was able to do significantly better than that which we expected from mere random chance.

...theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions.

I support building a soccer stadium in the District of Columbia, and I support investing public dollars to get it done.

One thing I'd like to do is angel investing in small companies. That's what's exciting, and if you are lucky to have a bit of money, you can take those risks.

The most important attribute for success in value investing is patience, patience, and more patience. The majority of investors do not possess this characteristic.

Successful contrarian investing requires us to live with discomfort, for being "wrong" and alone. But bargains do not exist in the absence of fear.

People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity.

Today, investing is no longer just a good idea for women. It is a must-have.

Wouldn't it be amazing if we spent as much energy investing in experiences as we do investing in things?

If you have never missed when investing, you haven't been in there trying.

The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes.

Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings.

Inactivity strikes us as intelligent behavior.

Enjoy your work and work for whom you admire.

Calculate "owner earnings" to get a true reflection of value.

Only those who will be sellers of equities in the near future should be happy at seeing stocks rise. Prospective purchasers should much prefer sinking prices.

The art of investing is not about figuring out what has already happened. It’s about anticipating the futureand creating the future that others will read about in The Wall Street Journal.

Stop spending your time; start investing your time.

Most of the mutual fund investments I have are index funds, approximately 75%.

In my 35 years in the army I was in school for 6 years. I think corporations should take a look at whether they are investing enough in the development of their human capital.

There is general agreement among researchers that nearly all stock pickers, whether they know it or not-and few of them do-are playing a game of chance.

Economics exists to make astrology look respectable.

Famed value investor Guy Spier has managed to write what is both a gripping memoir and a fascinating study of what it takes to succeed in investing and life. A must read!

I suppose if I were younger, I would be investing in Africa.

There is empirical evidence that leading brands that keep investing during recessions gain share.

Knowing nothing about investing might be a benefit. You won't have to unlearn many popular beliefs propagated by Wall Street and the media that aren't true.