Best Investor Quotes

#1. The best investor is your customer.

Esther Dyson

#2. Nebraska was home to indigenous peoples for centuries. It became a state in 1867, and has produced an important literary figure, Willa Cather, as well as an investor said to be the world's second richest man, Warren Buffett.

Stephen Kinzer

#3. My view is that an investor is better off knowing a lot about a few investments than knowing a little about each of a great many holdings. One's very best idea's are likely to generate higher returns for a given level of risk than one's hundredth or thousandth best idea.

Seth Klarman

#4. he's incredibly responsive, which is one of the best characteristics you can have in an investor. He'll get back to you any hour - day or night - quickly, on anything that matters.

Adam Grant

#5. Suppose you were a real estate investor with a 1/3 interest in the best apartment complex in town, the best mall, and the best office building. Would you feel like a poor, undiversified investor? No! But as soon as you get into stocks, people feel this way. Partly, people need to justify their fees.

Charlie Munger

#6. As an investor with small capital, one should prefer businesses that have high returns on capital and that require little incremental investment to grow.

Warren Buffett

#7. If the world couldn't see your results, would you rather be thought of as the world's greatest investor but in reality have the world's worst record? Or be thought of as the world's worst investor when you were actually the best?

Warren Buffett

#8. I am a huge, huge, huge fan of index funds. They are the investor's best friend and Wall Street's worst nightmare.

Jonathan Clements

#9. The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.

Noam Chomsky

#10. The U.S. is the biggest investor in research and development in the world. It has the best universities. Keeping them supplied with the best talent is essential.

James Dyson

#11. A defensive investor can always prosper by looking patiently and calmly through the wreckage of a bear market.

Benjamin Graham

#12. The best ideas are those that create a new mind-set or sense a need before others do, and it takes an astute investor to recognize an idea that not only is ahead of its time but also has long-term prospects.

Howard Schultz

#13. The natural-born investor is a myth.

Peter Lynch

#14. What most entrepreneurs don't understand is that it isn't the economy that bursts a bubble, but investor psychology.

Jay Samit

#15. When I read in Fortune magazine that Warren Buffet, the billionaire investor and one of the world's richest men, was investing in a direct sales (network marketing) company, I decided I was missing something.

David Bach

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

Benjamin Graham

#17. Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them complex or scary is non-optimal.

Bill Gurley

#18. The best part of being an angel investor is seeing these kids coming up with companies that get way more traffic than Reddit had when we sold it. I think, 'Are you kidding me? They're just kids, and they've done so much.'

Alexis Ohanian

#19. If you're a technology investor, and you decide that you're also going to be a healthcare investor or a green-tech investor, that doesn't usually work out that well. There are reasons why people make their careers studying these things and becoming experts.

Bill Maris

#20. The United States has the best, deepest, widest, and most transparent capital markets in the world which give you, the investor, the ability to buy and sell large amounts at very cheap prices. That is a good thing.

Jamie Dimon