Great Investing Quotes

#1. Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.

Charlie Munger

#2. Knowing the right detail gets you a great return. Ignore them and you just crash & burn.

Robert Rolih

#3. Government support is not only investing in upstream areas like basic research, but also in downstream areas like applied research and early-stage financing for the companies themselves. This means there are great risks.

Mariana Mazzucato

#4. Investing in friendship and love always brings great returns. - Edie Melson -

Gary Chapman

#5. Expertise is great, but it has a bad side effect: It tends to create the inability to accept new ideas.

Dean Williams

#6. Investing in auto companies and ensuring a financial collapse didn't lead not from a recession to a great depression may not have been the most popular thing to do, but it was the right thing to do.

Robert Gibbs

#7. It's almost a cliche that great Silicon Valley entrepreneurs don't go sit on a beach when they make a lot of money; they get back to work building another company or at least investing in other people's companies.

Sarah Lacy

#8. Investing is where you find a few great companies and then sit on your ass.

Charlie Munger

#9. The transaction reflects our disciplined strategy of investing capital in core businesses where we can leverage scale and expertise for competitive advantage. In addition to being a great strategic fit, the deal is compelling financially.

Jamie Dimon

#10. The early 1990s was a time of great advancements in precooked bacon technology. Pork producers, food labs, and agricultural schools such as Iowa State University began investing substantially in precooked R&D.

David Sax

#11. You're dealing with a lot of silly people in the marketplace; it's like a great big casino and everyone else is boozing. If you can stick with Pepsi, you should be O.K.

Warren Buffett

#12. In expert tennis, 80% of the points are won, while in amateur tennis, 80% are lost. The same is true for wrestling, chess, and investing: Beginners should focus on avoiding mistakes, experts on making great moves." Erik Falkenstein

Lucas Carlson

#13. If the growth rate is so good that in another ten years the company might well have quadrupled, is it really of such great concern whether at the moment the stock might or might not be 35% overpriced?

Philip Arthur Fisher

#14. It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.

John Maynard Keynes

#15. I'd love to build a company that will continue to make movies well beyond me someday. And I'd like to help start something great, even investing in it myself.

Steven Spielberg

#16. The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people!

Babatunde Osotimehin

#17. The great lesson in theatre is that you live the story every night, and that is a wonderful vehicle for getting to the richest places in a performance or investing a character with the richest life.

Celia Weston

#18. A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.

Warren Buffett

#19. The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble ... We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.

Warren Buffett

#20. The most important thing for us is investing and making companies great, and then they have all the options they want, whether that's to go public or stay private.

David Sze

#21. I love handbags. And shoes. Investing in like a great handbag or a pair of shoes can really make or break an outfit. It's fun to mix and match high street with luxury brands and throw in a bit of vintage as well.

Miranda Kerr

#22. The intelligent investor should recognize that market panics can create great prices for good companies and good prices for great companies.

Benjamin Graham

#23. We can find a great sector or business, but we're investing so early that unless there's this tenacious grit, determination, resourcefulness, ability to evolve, it won't work.

Dan Levitan

#24. Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that person can deliver for them. Everything is fear based, so they pigeonhole people. But I've written everything, from Westerns to sci-fi to dramedy, I've done it all.

Melissa Rosenberg

#25. As I discovered, there is a great deal of similarity between a boom-bust process in the financial markets and the rise and fall of the Soviet system.

George Soros

#26. The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world ... and have even more meaning

Bill Gates

#27. We do not spend a great deal of time talking to management.

Walter Schloss

#28. I'm always fully invested. It's a great feeling to be caught with your pants up.

Peter Lynch

#29. Value investing requires a great deal of hard work, unusually strict discipline, and a long-term investment horizon. Few are willing and able to devote sufficient time and effort to become value investors, and only a fraction of those have the proper mind-set to succeed.

Seth Klarman

#30. Saving is a great habit but without investing and tracking, it just sleeps

Manoj Arora

#31. Successful investing professionals are disciplined and consistent and they think a great deal about what they do and how they do it.

Benjamin Graham

#32. A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.

Benjamin Graham

#33. If I'm going to make something in the kitchen, even if it's something as simple as a sandwich, I will take the extra time to make it a great sandwich instead of just an average sandwich. I don't mind investing a little extra work to make something special.

Kyle MacLachlan

#34. I also immediately internalized the idea that no school could teach someone how to be a great investor. If it were true, it'd be the most popular school in the world, with an impossibly high tuition. So it must not be true. Investing

Michael Lewis

#35. ...there should be no place in a portfolio for hedge funds. There are lots of reasons, but the main one is simple: Investing in hedge funds is a great way to increase the odds of underperformance.

Peter Mallouk

#36. I was educated to think maybe Brazil works, maybe it doesn't. But I decided I am going to make this country work for my children. I am investing all my effort now in making Brazil a great country.

Eike Batista