Investors Quotes

Most investors are obsessed with the market size today and they don't think about how the market is going to evolve.

Most investors are primarily oriented toward return, how much they can make and pay little attention to risk, how much they can lose.

Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent.

But successful investors tend to be not too self-destructive. They tend to be patient, they tend not to follow the crowd, and they tend not to be too guilty about winning.

One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than a market order.

It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.

Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do.

Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies.

Bank One has got one of the best credit card divisions, ... The perception of investors is that financial services stocks are affected by interest rates and they're not.

If you can't come clean and tell investors how and why you failed, that raises a red flag. They need to see that you learned from it and came back stronger.

You lose only the things you have

And so Fannie Mae produces very strong results for investors in - when interest rates are high and when interest rates are low, in recession and during booms.

To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause uncertainty for new investors.

We've got thousands of investors counting on us. And we're a team of thousands of employees all counting on each other. That's fun.

Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.

It's time for Haitians to have access to health care. It's time to open our borders to the Haitian diaspora, open our markets to the world. It's time to open our country to potential investors.

Investors should be cautiously positioned as the global economy and markets face major uncertainties. The downgrade will be a further headwind to growth and job creation in the U.S.

Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.

My best advice to individual investors can readily be summed up into two closely linked precepts. Be patient and don't be greedy.

There are no bad business and investment opportunities, but there are bad entrepreneurs and investors.

If the investor is uneducated, anything he or she invests in will be risky. So it's not the investment that is risky. It's the investor.

I believe in fighting with investors to reduce the amount of equity they get and then being as generous as you possibly can with employees.

When a Wall Street analyst or broker expresses optimism, investors must take it with a grain of salt.

All investors must come to terms with the relentless continuity of the investment process.

Billionaire investors know they're going to be wrong, so they have a plan to protect against wrong.

If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich.

The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the passive group - the "know-nothings" - must win.

First, many in Wall Street - a community in which quality control is not prized - will sell investors anything they will buy.

All the things that make us human make us terrible investors and you have to understand what they are and how to avoid them.

I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life Zuckerberg has been making $1 billion for investors.

Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day.

The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.

Question: So investors shouldn't delude themselves about beating the market? Answer: "They're just not going to do it. It's just not going to happen."

There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.

The speculator is not an investor.

Investors aren't willing to accept the idea that we're in an era of lower returns.

When markets go down, opportunities go up for smart real estate investors. I would much rather play the downturn than the upturn.

You have a class of investors and you have a class of speculators. The speculators historically haven't been big enough to cause the investors to doubt the long-term vision of stock.

Commercial banks are very good for certain businesses, like loans and guarding other people's money. They're not great investors or entrepreneurs.

There won't be one, single global market. But there will be global investors.

We [Vietnam] happen to offer good investment opportunities for foreigners, although this is not a one-way street. Both we and the foreign investors benefit greatly as a result.

The most important attribute for success in value investing is patience, patience, and more patience. The majority of investors do not possess this characteristic.

It is not the responsibility of the Federal Bank - nor would it be appropriate - to protect lenders and investors from the consequences of their decisions

Investors are employees you can never hire. We made sure to pick investors that thought like us.

When people see success, particularly investors, they are much more willing to invest in artistic projects.

Any time we would talk to another VC, our investors would talk him out of it: 'This is not a good company'... So we were really stuck with our existing investors for the next round.

Audiences arent fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all.

If all of us work in accordance with rule of law, if rule of law is implemented, we are all safe, investors are safe, people will be safe.

Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance. That won't change, moreover, because the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO's pay.

Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow.