Great Investors Quotes

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

John Gutfreund

#2. You have to be intellectually honest with yourself and others. In my judgment, all great investors are seekers of truth.

Michael Steinhardt

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

Andrew Lo

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

Warren Buffett

#5. By empowering people to initiate a conversation prior to surgery regarding their pain control options, we hope to reduce the incidence of narcotic addiction and all of the unfortunate consequences that surround it.

Kristi Funk

#6. A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.

Robert Kiyosaki

#7. To investors, job creation is a second-order effect. Market participants care first about interest rates, exchange rates, bond prices and the one great factor that affects all three: the long-term solvency of a bond company called the U.S. government.

Amity Shlaes

#8. Because we weren't having success finding a CEO, our investors insisted that we hire these managers a temporary CEO and CFO. That didn't go great.

Tim Brady

#9. A stock market decline is as routine as a January blizzard in Colorado. If you're prepared, it can't hurt you. A decline is a great opportunity to pick up the bargains left behind by investors who are fleeing the storm in panic.

Peter Lynch

#10. Most investors, both institutional and individual, will find that the best way to own common stocks (shares') is through an index fund that charges minimal fees. Those following this path are sure to beat the net results (after fees and expenses) of the great majority of investment professionals.

Warren Buffett

#11. People reject what they do not understand because it makes them feel small. They would rather believe in some other reality, even if it is only an illusion, so long as it makes them feel bigger.

Suzy Kassem

#12. Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest, and astound me.

Markus Zusak

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. You will never see as many great women investors or traders as men. Period. End of story.

Paul Tudor Jones

#16. I think 2tor has a chance of remaking higher ed in a really great way. If we do that, those investors will do well.

John Katzman

#17. I have no regrets whatsoever that I have acted in a way to advance my country's interests

Susan Rice

#18. 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

#19. You only get one world premiere of your directorial debut.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

#20. A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of great companies with great management at good prices. Only for short term investors and market timers is a correction not an opportunity.

Warren Buffett

#21. Singleton has an almost uncanny ability to resist being caught up in the fads and fancies of the moment. Like most great innovators [and investors! - Ed.], Henry Singleton is supremely indifferent to criticism.

Robert J. Flaherty

#22. Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology.

Arthur Levitt

#23. This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides; sometimes there are a hundred.

Mort Sahl