Investing Quotes
Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.
It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: 'we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year.
I have a motto: it's never too late to give up. It's never too late to give up what you are doing, and start doing what you realise you love.
The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.
When it comes to investing, my suggestion is to first understand your strengths and weaknesses, and then devise a simple strategy so that you can sleep at night!
Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones
Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences of being wrong.
If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.
If given a choice between investing in someone who has read REWORK or has an MBA, I’m investing in REWORK every time. A must read for every entrepreneur.
If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.
The true investor... will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operation results of his companies.
If you want to have a lasting influence upon the world, you must invest in people's lives; and if you want to maximize that investment, then you must invest in those people while they are young.
Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.
The propensity to swindle grows parallel with the propensity to speculate during a boom the implosion of an asset price bubble always leads to the discovery of frauds and swindles
Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.
Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans.
To buy when others are despondently selling and sell when others are greedily buying requires the greatest fortitude and pays the greatest reward.
Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing.
Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.
The entire pursuit of value investing requires you to see where the crowd is wrong so that you can profit from their misperceptions.
Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.
Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.
I take the market-efficiency hypothesis to be the simple statement that security prices fully reflect all available information.
If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.
It's amazing how difficult it is for a man to understand something if he's paid a small fortune not to understand it.
Surprise! The returns reported by mutual funds aren't actually earned by mutual fund investors.
I know no better way to show true patriotism and love for one's country, than investing to create wealth and employment.
I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.
The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.
The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.
The intellectual and social climate needed to allow entrepreneurship to thrive will not exist in advanced capitalism.
Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process.
In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a speculative undertaking.
