INVESTING QUOTES

quotations about investing

Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth.

PAUL CLITHEROE

attributed, Investopedia


If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

WARREN BUFFETT

The Tao of Warren Buffett

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It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong.

GEORGE SOROS

attributed, The Motley Fool, September 20, 2012


I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.

WARREN BUFFETT

lecture at Columbia University

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Successful investors base their investing on information. That's not too hard to comprehend, for investing not based on information is hardly more than guesswork, right?

PETER SANDER

The 25 Habits of Highly Successful Investors


Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

PAUL SAMUELSON

attributed, Investopedia


Investing is not a gamble on which stock will do better. It is an art and a science. It is the ability to make an educated guess on how, why, and when a stock will do well.

JOSHUA ANTON

Investing: Blunt and to the Point


Success in investing doesn't correlate with I.Q. once you're above the level of 25. Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.

WARREN BUFFETT

BusinessWeek interview, Jun. 25, 1999

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Investing is as easy, or as complicated, as one wishes to make it.

RUBEN ALVARADO

Investing in the New Normal: Beyond the Keynesian Endpoint


The views of buyers and sellers respecting future prices, never more than approximations to the truth, often diverge from it very widely. Waves of opinion, now in excess now in defect of the fact, rise and fall daily, and larger ones weekly and monthly, tending, every now and then, to run into mania or panic; for it is among men of business as among other men, that they stand hesitating until some one sets the example, and then rush all one way, like a flock of sheep after the leader. These characteristics in human nature, leading to these perturbations, the far-seeing buyer takes into account--judging how far existing influences have made opinion deviate from the truth, and how far impending influences are likely to do it.

HERBERT SPENCER

The Study of Sociology

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The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

PHILLIP FISHER

attributed, The Complete Guide to Portfolio Construction and Management


Successful investing is more than simply knowing all about stocks. Understanding yourself is equally important. Investors who make mistakes are those who allow their emotions to control their decisions, which is one of our biggest enemies when it comes to investing.

RUSMIN ANG & VICTOR CHNG

Value Investing in Growth Companies


We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save.

HENRY FORD

My Life and Work

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Know what you own, and know why you own it.

PETER LYNCH

attributed, Investopedia


The only reason to invest in the market is because you think you know something others don’t.

R. FOSTER WINANS

Newsweek, December 1, 1986

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How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.

ROBERT G. ALLEN

Creating Wealth


Bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered.

JIM CRAMER

Mad Money


For the most part, money for investing is better in the market than out. Avoid holding large amounts of cash for extended periods.

KEN LITTLE

Teach Yourself Investing in 24 Easy Lessons


The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don't have to swing at everything -- you can wait for your pitch. The problem when you're a money manager is that your fans keep yelling, "Swing, you bum!"

WARREN BUFFETT

The Motley Fool, March 26, 2003

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I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.

WARREN BUFFET

The Tao of Warren Buffet

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