Investing Quotes

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.

Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.

Risk is good. Not properly managing your risk is a dangerous leap.

Anyone who is not investing now is missing a tremendous opportunity.

Remember this: When you are doing nothing, those speculators who feel they must trade day in and day out, are laying the foundation for your next venture. You will reap benefits from their mistakes.

I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am no investor.

I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.

The secret to investing is to figure out the value of something - and then pay a lot less.

The value of any investment is, and always must be, a function of the price you pay for it.

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise.

In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard.

Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon. I found it one of the hardest things to learn. But it is only after a stock operator has firmly grasped this that he can make big money.

By refusing to pay too much for an investment, you minimize the chances that your wealth will ever disappear or suddenly be destroyed.

There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.

Know what you own, and know why you own it.

The stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing.

Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.

We next consider the rule that the investor does or should consider expected return a desirable thing and variance of return an undesirable thing.

It is literally true that millions come easier to a trader after he knows how to trade, than hundreds did in the days of his ignorance.

Successful investing professionals are disciplined and consistent and they think a great deal about what they do and how they do it.

You can be sure that over the next 10 years, you'll see something that you did not think was possible.

To be an investor you must be a believer in a better tomorrow.

The intelligent investor should recognize that market panics can create great prices for good companies and good prices for great companies.

Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.

The hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe.

Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless.

Investing is simple, but not easy.

You must never delude yourself into thinking that you're investing when you're speculating.

There is only one side to the stock market; and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side

Building your own business is the best way to become rich. Then you can begin investing in other assets.

It only takes a handful of big winners to make a lifetime of investing worthwhile.

Diversification is an established tenet of conservative investment.

Good investing is a peculiar balance between the conviction to follow your ideas and the flexibility to recognize when you have made a mistake.

An intelligent investor gets satisfaction from the thought that his operations are exactly opposite to those of the crowd.

I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.

Experience has proved to me that real money made in speculating has been in commitments in a stock or commodity showing a profit right from the start.

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Just because you buy a stock and it goes up does not mean you are right. Just because you buy a stock and it goes down does not mean you are wrong.

Before you invest in anything else, exhaust the possibilities of investing in your own business first.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

A true luxury is a reward for investing in and developing a real asset.

Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth.

If you invested in a very low cost index fund - where you don't put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years -you'll do better than 90% of people who start investing at the same time.

The best education you can get is investing in yourself, and that doesn't mean college or university.

He really meant to tell them that the big money was not in the individual fluctuations but in the main movements that is, not in reading the tape but in sizing up the entire market and its trend.

Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.

People who look for easy money invariable pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this earth.

If you can't find any companies that you think are attractive, put your money in the bank until you discover some.