Investing Quotes
If you can't find any companies that you think are attractive, put your money in the bank until you discover some.
I think the leading cause of financial disablement is the belief that you can rely on the experts to help you. Investing requires an intense personal involvement.
Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.
Be extra careful when buying into companies and industries that are the current darlings of the financial community.
Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Your success in investing will depend in part on your character and guts, and in part on your ability to realize at the height of ebullience and the depth of despair alike that this too shall pass.
Timing the market is a fools game, whereas time in the market is your greatest natural advantage.
The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.'
Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.
A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing.
It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification.
You hear all this whining going on, "Where are our great writers?" The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
As Buffett has often observed, value investing is not a concept that can be learned and gradually applied over time. It is either absorbed and adopted at once, or it is never truly learned.
You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.
You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.
In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.
The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns.
Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.
Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.
In the long run, it's not just how much money you make that will determine your future prosperity. It's how much of that money you put to work by saving it and investing it.
We define a bargain issue as one which, on the basis of facts established by analysis, appears to be worth considerably more that it is selling for.
Always consider investing in a grade-A man with a grade-B idea. Never invest in a grade-B man with a grade-A idea.
Investing in the market without knowing what stage it is in is like selling life insurance to 20 year olds and 80 year olds at the same premium.
Some investments do have higher expected returns than others. Which ones? Well, by and large they're the ones that will do the worst in bad times.
I've not found ! one single mutual fund, one single real estate investment, any gold, silver or anything else that has given me higher returns than: me investing in myself.
Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.
Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.
Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable.
Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.
Instead of hoping he must fear and instead of fearing he must hope. He must fear that his loss may develop into a much bigger loss, and hope that his profit may become a big profit.
