Investing Quotes
Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
The beauty of periodic rebalancing is that it forces you to base your investing decisions on a simple, objective standard.
After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
A speculator gambles that a stock will go up in price because somebody else will pay even more for it.
Although there are good and bad companies, there is no such thing as a good stock; there are only good stock prices, which come and go.
It never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently uses all the obvious and easily learned principles.
If you knew what was going to happen in the economy, you still wouldn't necessarily know what was going to happen in the stock market.
All intelligent investing is value investing - acquiring more that you are paying for. You must value the business in order to value the stock.
Fund investors are confident that they can easily select superior fund managers. They are wrong.
Thousands of people have tried, and the evidence is clear: The more you trade, the less you keep.
Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. If you are susceptible to selling everything in a panic, you ought to avoid stocks and mutual funds altogether.
The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share.
The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.
Focus on your customers and lead your people as though their lives depend on your success.
It is what people actually did in the stock market that counted - not what they said they were going to do.
When you look at the results on an after-fee, after-tax basis over reasonably long periods of time, there's almost no chance that you end up beating the index fund.
The successful investor is usually an individual who is inherently interested in business problems.
By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.
The purpose of investing is not to simply optimise returns and make yourself rich. The purpose is not to die poor.
Each year we buy stocks and they go up, we sell them and then we try to buy something cheaper.
Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?
The intelligent investor shouldn't ignore Mr. Market entirely. Instead, you should do business with him- but only to the extent that it serves your interests.
The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.
Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they are cheap.
As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him.
The margin of safety is always dependent on the price paid. It will be large at one price, small at some higher price, nonexistent at some still higher price.
I'm standing here saying that those who miss the boat now, will miss it forever. So if you want to be in Africa, think about investing.
Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph.
You're looking for a mispriced gamble. That's what investing is. And you have to know enough to know whether the gamble is mispriced. That's value investing.
Successful investing is about owning businesses and reaping the huge rewards provided by the dividends and earnings growth of our nation's - and, for that matter, the world's - corporations.
Coronation: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.
Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date.
Money is ultimately not enough compensation for investing your time and energy: there has to be a sense of purpose, meaning and fulfillment.
"If I buy stocks on Smith's tip I must sell those same stocks on Smith's tip. I am depending on him. Suppose Smith is away on a holiday when the selling time comes around?
There are substantial rewards for adopting a regular routine of investing and following it no matter what, and additional rewards for buying more shares when most investors are scared into selling.
Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
You have never lost money in stocks over any 20-year period, but you have wiped out half your portfolio in bonds (after inflation). So which is the riskier asset?
We like to buy stocks which we feel are undervalued and then we have to have the guts to buy more when they go down.
Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual's cash flow and wealth.
Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.
There is nothing more important to this nation's future than investing in our young people.