Investing Quotes

Patience is one of the most valuable attributes in investing.

At the time we acquired Viacom, everyone said I had overpaid. But even at today's depressed prices, that investment is worth billions. Everyone was saying MTV was a fad. I knew better.

The investor should be aware that even though safety of its principal and interest may be unquestioned, a long term bond could vary widely in market price in response to changes in interest rates.

Making a decision to sell is the most difficult thing we do.

We have not known a single person who has consistently or lastingly make money by thus "following the market". We do not hesitate to declare this approach is as fallacious as it is popular.

Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of our children.

Instead of investing in the goods as they pass between producer and consumer, as the merchant does, the businessman now invests in the processes of industry.

I don't read economic forecasts. I don't read the funny papers.

Stockbrokers aren't too interested in a stock you can sit there for five years with.

If you have more than 120 or 130 I.Q. points, you can afford to give the rest away. You don't need extraordinary intelligence to succeed as an investor.

You've got to have models in your head and you've got to array you experience - both vicarious and direct - onto this latticework of mental models.

You must value the business in order to value the stock.

I learned that a real friendship is not about what you can get, but what you can give. Real friendship is about making sacrifices and investing in people to help them improve their lives.

In business we often find that the winning system goes almost ridiculously far in maximizing and or minimizing one or a few variables - like the discount warehouses of Costco.

Taking this view, it is possible to see financial markets as a laboratory for testing hypotheses, albeit not strictly scientific ones. The truth is, successful investing is a kind of alchemy.

If the market is so cheap, you want to get something with a little more zip in it, or potential.

We have to have a special insight, or we'll put it in the 'too tough' basket. All of you have to look for a special area of competency and focus on that.

When I buy a stock, I have kind of an idea where I want to sell it.

The only preparation for prospering in the global economy is investing in ourselves.

Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half of your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of it.

Investing in women is not only the right thing to do, but also the smart thing to do.

It's not supposed to be easy. Anyone who finds it easy is stupid.

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

Probability is the very guide of life.

Growth and value investing are joined at the hip.

The investor who permits himself to be stampeded or unduly worried by unjustified market declines in his holdings is perversely transforming his basic advantage into a basic disadvantage.

Before you place your financial future in the hands of an adviser, it's imperative that you find someone who not only makes you comfortable but whose honesty is beyond reproach.

Even defensive portfolios should be changed from time to time, especially if the securities purchased have an apparently excessive advance and can be replaced by issues much more reasonable priced.

Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.

Ben was really a contrarian but he didn't use those terms because he was really buying value.

While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster

This LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into harmony.

I think investing in a good education has been key for me, although the investment was more in time than money.

One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities of your mistakes. A bad call can lose you many millions.

He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection that he devotes to the selection of a medium-priced automobile.

Investing in tomorrow's technology today is more critical than ever.

I always felt very secure and very safe with real estate. Real estate always appreciates.

The Wheels of Justice turn slowly but exceedingly fine.

Value investing is predicated on the efficient market hypothesis being wrong.

Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.

First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.

I don't want a lot of good investments; I want a few outstanding ones.

Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure.

Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

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

When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.

If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one's conceptions and what one does about them. Life can be seen as a fertile fallacy.

Some kinds of stocks are easier to analyse than others.

I very often used to get backaches due to the fact that I was wrong. Whenever you are wrong you have to fight or [take] flight. When [I] make the decision, the backache goes away.

People don't like to buy things that are going down.