Investing Quotes

Investing today may well be harder than it has been at any time in our three decades of existence.

Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks.

To offer women something that feels more about investing in something and less about being disposable is a complete corrective to the world we live in

Practical investors usually learn their problem is finding enough outstanding investments, rather than choosing among too many.

It would be wonderful if we could avoid the setbacks with timely exits, but nobody has figured out how to predict them.

In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.

I'm always fully invested. It's a great feeling to be caught with your pants up.

On the issue of inflation, I think I could solve it no matter how much money it took.

There is nothing more important to this nation's future than investing in our young people.

Most investors want to do today what they should have done yesterday.

The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.

Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.

The grim irony of investing, then, is that we investors as a group not only don't get what we pay for, we get precisely what we don't pay for. So if we pay for nothing, we get everything.

I don't know whether I make myself plain, but I never lose my temper over the stock market. I never argue with the tape. Getting sore at the market doesn't get you anywhere.

The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years ago.

Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world's poorest people is the smartest way that our government spends money.

In order to be a really good investor, you need to be a little bit of a philosopher as well.

You don't get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.

As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.

Every bubble consists of a trend that can be observed in the real world and a misconception relating to that trend. The two elements interact with each other in a reflexive manner.

An investor calculates what a stock is worth, based on the value of its businesses.

To see how much a company is truly earning on the capital it deploys in its businesses, look beyond EPS to Return on Invested Capital (ROIC).

It should be remembered that a decline of 50% fully offsets a preceding advance of 100%.

Time and space are not conditions of existence, time and space is a model for thinking

You have to have patience in this field.

How could economics not be behavioral? If it isn't behavioral, what the hell is it?

The multiple failings of our flawed financial sector are jeopardizing, not only the retirement security of our nation's savers but the economy in which our entire society participates.

Learn how to ignore the examples from others when they are wrong, because few skills are more worth having.

If (investing) weren't a little difficult, everybody would be rich.

There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.

Book values have some good and some bad features.

Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing

Most people, whether bull or bear, when they are right, are right for the wrong reason, in my opinion.

If you don't feel comfortable owning something for 10 years, then don't own it for 10 minutes.

Don't be in too much of a hurry to sell.

Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.

I find it helpful to buy near the low of the last few years.

No statement is more true and better applicable to Wall Street than the famous warning of Santayana: "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it".

It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts.

In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and emotional impossibility.

Mr. Market's job is to provide you with prices; your job is to decide whether it is to your advantage to act on them. You no not have to trade with hime just because he constantly begs you to.

Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the corrections.

Owning stocks is like having children - don't get involved with more than you can handle.

All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the minuses from the stocks that don't work out.

When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.

A global economy is characterized not only by the free movement of goods and services but, more important, by the free movement of ideas and of capital.

The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones, and the age of oil won’t end because we run out of oil.

Gentlemen who prefer bonds don't know what they're missing.

Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research.

Searching for companies is like looking for grubs under rocks: if you turn over 10 rocks you'll likely find one grub; if you turn over 20 rocks you'll find two.