Investing Quotes

Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.

Your health is a long-range investment that will pay-off when you need it most.

If something cannot go on for ever, it will stop

You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks.

You never really know a stock until you own it.

Most active mutual funds are more interested in collecting fees than in boosting returns for investors.

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

There's no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or worse, to buy more of it when the fundamentals are deteriorating.

Unless an investor has access to “incredibly high-qualified professionals,” they “should be 100 percent passive - that includes almost all individual investors and most institutional investors.

An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.

Never buy a stock because it has gone up or sell one because it has gone down.

A man must study general conditions, to seize them so as to be able to anticipate probabilities.

I am for maximum supervision and minimum regulation.

The intelligent investor gets interested in big growth stocks not when they are at their most popular - but when something goes wrong.

At heart, "uncertainty" and "investing" are synonyms.

The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.

Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.

If the stock goes down we want to buy more.

High valuations entail high risks.

Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future.

The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away.

Try to buy assets at a discount than to buy earnings.

When you buy a depressed company it's not going to go up right after you buy it, believe me.

I never hesitate to tell a man that I am bullish or bearish. But I do not tell people to buy or sell any particular stock. In a bear market all stocks go down and in a bull market they go up.

Professional traders have always had some system or other based upon their experience and governed either by their attitude towards speculation or by their desires.

It was probably a mistake to allow gold to rise so high.

If there are not too many value stocks that I can find, the market isn't all that cheap.

Look for companies that do not have a lot of debt.

Always remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.

Be sure that debt does not exceed 100% of the equity.

If you're not working to get your business or investing operation to operate without you, you're thinking too small. Think team and systems.

The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern.

Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.

As a speculator you must embrace disorder and chaos.

If the market were way over priced, I wouldn't own any stocks.

When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?

A lot of companies have lots of assets tied up in plant and equipment. Well, is it old plant, or is it new plant?

We may buy a little bit of a stock, to get our feet wet and get a feeling for it.

It takes character to sit there with all that cash and do nothing. I didn't get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities.

I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.

The only thing I do know is that from chaos comes opportunity.

Now is always the hardest time to invest.

I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.

The only ones to get hurt on a roller coaster are the jumpers.

My mother enjoyed few things more than investing in the underdogs and showing them that they were special and could achieve their dreams.

The only product that's worth investing in is a fully functional musculoskeletal system. It's no luxury but rather a basic necessity that's within everyone's reach.

To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.

Fear and greed are probably the worst emotions to have in connection with the purchase and sale of stocks.

By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.