Equity Investment Quotes

#1. A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors. My mentor, Ben Graham, took this position many years ago, and everything I have seen since convinces me of its truth.

Warren Buffett

#2. As for God, it was easy to think kindly of Him in a paradise like Indian Hill. It was something else in Newark - or Europe or the Pacific - in the summer of 1944.

Philip Roth

#3. A target should go with every goal. A target is the value that defines success.

Michael Porter

#4. I plan to eliminate the equity cap in investment, and I also plan large-scale deregulation to meet global standards.

Lee Myung-bak

#5. You know somethin', man? Some day I'm gonna be walkin' up the street one way and you're gonna be comin' down the other way, and we're gonna pass each other and I'm gonna say 'Hello, best white band in the world' and you're gonna say 'Hello, best colored band in the world.

Chick Webb

#6. Market-cap based indexing will never be driven from its deserved perch as core and deserved king of the investment world. It is what we should all own in theory and it has delivered low-cost equity returns to a great mass of investors ... the now and forever king-of-the-hill.

Cliff Asness

#7. We can't all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the pie.

Amah Lambert

#8. If companies are able to raise equity from the market, then their problems for financing incomplete projects will come to end. Investment cycle in the capital market can kick-start with the money of savers and investors.

Uday Kotak

#9. I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.

Tony Kushner

#10. What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.

Barry Ritholtz

#11. Our investment bank looks like it does because its customers like our expansive network and want to do equity, debt, M&A, custody, move money, deposit money, et cetera.

Jamie Dimon

#12. Will you hold on to my penis while I drive?"

"If it's absolutely necessary, yes.

Stephanie McAfee

#13. Gold is the most precious of all commodities; gold constitutes treasure, and he who possesses it has all he needs in the world, as also the means of rescuing souls from purgatory, and restoring them to the enjoyment of paradise.

Christopher Columbus

#14. Long-term investment success is almost totally a function of how one emotionally handles declines in the equity market, as opposed to how one's portfolio handles them.

Nick Murray

#15. I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going.

Lauren Bacall