Investors Quotes

Individual and institutional investors alike frequently demonstrate an inability to make long-term investment decisions based on business fundamentals.

Many investors prefer comfort, chasing what is popular and loved, rather than pursuing what is out of favor. The markets do not reward comfort.

You have to be intellectually honest with yourself and others. In my judgment, all great investors are seekers of truth.

There are two kinds of investors, be thay large or small: those who don't know where the market is headed, and those who don't know that they don't know.

Value investors should completely exit a security by the time it reaches full value; owning overvalued securities is the realm of speculators.

A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings.

I think corporate managers should learn to be better investors because it would make them better managers.

Average investors can become experts in their own field and can pick winning stocks as effectively as Wall Street professionals by doing just a little research.

Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

Investors that do the best, and have done the best, are those that stay and compound at above-average rates over the long term.

What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow ... As 'bandwagon' investors join any party, they create their own truth - for a while.

Everyone told me you can't build a major tech company in Canada. There just aren't enough investors or engineers or top-level managers. Each day, I'm driven to prove them wrong.

In real estate, many investors love triple net leases. With NNN's investors receive income without the expenses of taxes, repairs and insurance. The tenant covers these costs.

When all feels calm and prices surge, the markets may feel safe; but, in fact, they are dangerous because few investors are focusing on risk.

One thing is certain. At some point global investors will lose confidence in our (U.S.) easy dollars and debt-financed prosperity, and then the chickens will come home to roost.

I have legally used the tax laws to my benefit and to the benefit of my company, my investors and my employees. I mean, honestly, I have brilliantly - I have brilliantly used those laws.

The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes them trend followers by definition.

All of us would be better investors if we just made fewer decisions.

In contrast to the speculators preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss.

My advice to this investor is the same that I give to the young investors in my classes Devote the same earnest attention to investing that $50,000 as you devoted to earning it.

Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.

I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.

Successful investors must temper the arrogance of taking a stand with a large dose of humility, accepting that despite their efforts and care, they may in fact be wrong.

Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.

Investor confidence in Adani is fairly high, and most of our investors are long-term investors.

I know of no long-time practitioner who regrets adhering to a value philosophy; few investors who embrace the fundamental principles ever abandon this investment approach for another

Real investors should never feel bearish because the time to buy value is when markets go down!

Investors must remember that their first job is to preserve their capital. After they've dealt with that, they can approach the second job, seeking a return on that capital.

Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of even an outstanding company to catch up with the price they paid.

If you are able to look beyond near term trouble, you have an advantage over many professional investors

Ratings agencies are highly conflicted, unimaginative dupes. They are blissfully unaware of adverse selection and moral hazard. Investors should never trust them.

I favour passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.

Investors who find the best businesses to put their money behind are rewarded for their research.

Investors don't like uncertainty.

Change is the investor's only certainty.

Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong time.

Most investors are obsessed with the market size today and they don't think about how the market is going to evolve.

It's important to choose initial investors who are not twitchy and rushing for an exit. Wall Street's quarter-by-quarter lens may make the CEO make sub-optimal long-term decisions.

Most investors say "Don't take risks." The rich investor takes risks.

Cabin Fever was murder. There was a lot of psychological stress, like not knowing if we were going to finish the movie. The day we arrived to start rehearsals, our main investors pulled out.

Let's take a timeout. Let's allow investors the opportunity in a period of market calm to re-examine what's happened and to deploy new strategies into the marketplace.

Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and they should be skeptical.

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

The higher the yield, the higher the risk. A high yield is designed to attract investors. An outrageously high yield attracts fools.

Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes?

Investors should invest on what they know. The biggest mistake is to invest on what they don't know.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the heroes were the long-term investors; today the heroes are the wise guys.

Individual investors predictably flock to stocks in companies that are in the news.

For all long-term investors, there is only one objective-maximum total real return after taxes.

Many investors seem to have forgotten a hard reality: There are frequent periods when stock markets don't do much.