Investors Quotes
Investors Quote of the day
Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.
It's not always easy to do what's not popular, but that's where you make your money. Buy stocks that look bad to less careful investors and hang on until their real value is recognized.
Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.
Surprise! The returns reported by mutual funds aren't actually earned by mutual fund investors.
Ultimately, nothing should be more important to investors than the ability to sleep soundly at night.
The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.
Investors operate with limited funds and intelligence, they do not need to know everything. As long as they understand something better than others, they have an edge.
The late 90s almost forced me to identify myself as a value investor, because I thought what everybody else was doing was insane.
You had a lot of novice investors who got into the market looking for easy money, without any regard to the fundamentals. These stocks were running on fumes.
Investors must keep in mind that there's a difference between a good company and a good stock. After all, you can buy a good car but pay too much for it.
We must look after our own before lining the pockets of overseas countries and investors.
The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent.
My biggest prediction for the future is that people are going to start looking after individual investors.
Many investors make the mistake of buying high and selling low while the exact opposite is the right strategy to outperform over the long term.
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.
Most active mutual funds are more interested in collecting fees than in boosting returns for investors.
Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.
Bond investors are the vampires of the investment world. They love decay, recession - anything that leads to low inflation and the protection of the real value of their loans.
Common stock investors can make money by predicting the outcomes of practice evolution. You can't derive this by fundamental analysis - you must think biologically.
Timidity prompted by past failures causes investors to miss the most important bull markets.
The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform.
The principal investors in the South African economy are South Africans. And this is something, I think, we should really pay attention to.
Fund investors are confident that they can easily select superior fund managers. They are wrong.
By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.
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.
Derivatives serve practically no purpose except to enrich bankers through opaque pricing and to deceive investors through off-the-balance-sheet accounting.
Employees pay the highest percentage of taxes. Big business and investors pay the least.
Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.
Practical investors usually learn their problem is finding enough outstanding investments, rather than choosing among too many.
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.
Always start at the end before you begin. Professional investors always have an exit strategy before they invest. Knowing your exit strategy is an important investment fundamental.
I hated discussing ideas with investors, because then I become a Defender of the Idea, and that influences your thought process.
Outperforming the majority of investors requires doing what they are not doing. Buying when others have despaired, and selling when they are full of hope, takes fortitude.
Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.
If you spend your energies looking for and analysing situations not closely followed by other informed investors, your chance of finding bargains greatly increases.
Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing
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.
You have to be intellectually honest with yourself and others. In my judgment, all great investors are seekers of truth.