Top 80 Investing Your Money Quotes
#1. As I've come to discover, investing is about much more than money. So as your wealth grows, I hope you will also come to realize that the money is largely irrelevant. And what you will want to do with the bulk of your wealth is give it back to society.
Guy Spier
#2. One thing I'd like to do is angel investing in small companies. That's what's exciting, and if you are lucky to have a bit of money, you can take those risks.
Nick D'Aloisio
#3. Money is always eager and ready to work for anyone who is ready to employ it.
Idowu Koyenikan
#4. Money is ultimately never enough compensation for investing one's time and energy. There must be a sense of purpose, meaning, and accomplishment.
Dan Miller
#5. Our anti-crisis policy is directed to internal demand support, social security of citizens and creation of new jobs. Like many other countries, we are reducing taxes on production, investing money in the economy. We are optimising state expenses.
Vladimir Putin
#6. Experience taught me to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.
Donald Trump
#7. Experience has proved to me that real money made in speculating has been in commitments in a stock or commodity showing a profit right from the start.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#8. In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.
Robert Kiyosaki
#9. 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
#10. Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.
Warren Buffett
#11. In the long run, it's not just how much money you make that will determine your future prosperity. It's how much of that money you put to work by saving it and investing it.
Peter Lynch
#12. What people today call inflation is not inflation, i.e., the increase in the quantity of money and money substitutes, but the general rise in commodity prices and wage rates which is the inevitable consequence of inflation.
Ludwig Von Mises
#13. You could lose hundreds or thousands one day on paper and gain it all back the next, and it has literally no effect on your immediate future, provided the money you have in the market is money you're investing for the long haul (meaning at least three to five years).
Jean Chatzky
#14. Jewish families encourage pursuit of wealth accumulation, high-income careers, and investing.
H.W. Charles
#15. The art of investing is not about figuring out what has already happened. It's about anticipating the futureand creating the future that others will read about in The Wall Street Journal.
Joshua Rogers
#16. We have not known a single person who has consistently or lastingly make money by thus "following the market". We do not hesitate to declare this approach is as fallacious as it is popular.
Benjamin Graham
#17. I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into my college fund, that they were investing for me to go to school and get this education, it had to be worth something.
G-Eazy
#18. If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.
George Soros
#19. I found an approach to investing that made enormous sense to me: rigorously analyzing a company's fundamentals, understanding exactly how it makes money, developing a view on the business's future prospects, and deciding if it's a good business.
Joe Mansueto
#20. Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth.
Paul Clitheroe
#21. Knowing the right detail gets you a great return. Ignore them and you just crash & burn.
Robert Rolih
#22. When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover.
Howard Dean
#23. 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
#24. I remember when being liberal meant being generous with your own money.
Will Rogers
#25. Money you won't need to use for at least seven years is money for investing. The goal here is to have your account grow over time to help you finance a distant goal, such as building a retirement fund. Since your goal is in the future, money for investing belongs in stocks.
Suze Orman
#26. Marketing is every bit of contact your company has with anyone in the outside world. Every bit of contact. That means a lot of marketing opportunities. It does not mean investing a lot of money.
Jay Conrad Levinson
#27. It's nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don't want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it's a little like saving sex for your old age.
Warren Buffett
#28. You realise the responsibility of carrying a film on your shoulders when people are investing money in you and they recognise the hard work you have to put in.
Vir Das
#29. Cut back on your rent or cut back on what you spend on food but never worry about investing money in a good book.
Robin S. Sharma
#30. Your assets are your employees. Invest more on those performing well. Let the non performers go.
Manoj Arora
#31. Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.
Warren Buffett
#32. Money is ultimately not enough compensation for investing your time and energy: there has to be a sense of purpose, meaning and fulfillment.
Dan Miller
#33. Losing some money is an inevitable part of investing, and there's nothing you can do to prevent it. But to be an intelligent investor, you must take responsibility for ensuring that you never lose most or all of your money.
Benjamin Graham
#34. There's no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or worse, to buy more of it when the fundamentals are deteriorating.
Peter Lynch
#35. One of the greatest deterrents to successful investing is the three-letter word ego.
Venita VanCaspel
#36. I think investing in a good education has been key for me, although the investment was more in time than money.
Nouriel Roubini
#37. If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it.
Donna Mills
#38. You're generally better off sticking with what you know.
Donald Trump
#39. You don't need to chase wealth, just become a real entrepreneur and the world is your oyster.
Amah Lambert
#40. Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world's poorest people is the smartest way that our government spends money.
Bill Gates
#41. Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future.
Warren Buffett
#42. If there is one fatal flaw in this business, it is allowing isolated information to drive trading or investing decisions-committing money without understanding all the risks. And there is only one way to understand all the risks: through systematic knowledge.
Victor Sperandeo
#43. Love risk when making money. Hate risk when investing money.
Robert Rolih
#44. I advise women to invest in real estate. It is the collateral to be preferred above all others, and the safest means of investing money.
Hetty Green
#46. There is a secret to investing that cuts a path directly to the profits that you're looking for. The secret is simplicity. The more elementary your investment style, the more confident you can be of making money in the long run.
Jane Bryant Quinn
#47. A dream business that doesn't make money is a living nightmare.
Habeeb Akande
#48. Cash never makes us happy, but it's better to have the money burning a hole in Berkshire's pocket than resting comfortably in someone else's.
Warren Buffett
#49. I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.
Warren Buffett
#50. More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing.
Peter Lynch
#51. The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.'
John Templeton
#52. We will only do with your money what we would do with our own.
Warren Buffett
#53. As long as you enjoy investing, you'll be willing to do the homework and stay in the game. That's why I try to make the show so entertaining, because if you aren't interested, you'll either miss the opportunity to make money in the market or not pay enough attention and end up losing your shirt.
Jim Cramer
#54. Right at the core, the mainstream has it backwards. Warren Buffett often quips that the first rule of investing is to not lose money, and the second rule is to not forget the first rule. Yet few investors approach the world with such a strict standard of risk avoidance.
Seth Klarman
#55. Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#56. Speculation is an effort, probably unsuccessful, to turn a little money into a lot. Investment is an effort, which should be successful, to prevent a lot of money from becoming a little.
Fred Schwed Jr.
#57. When investing, more effort means worse results, most of the time.
Robert Rolih
#58. Picking the right stocks is one of the hardest parts of investing, and every night on Mad Money, I try to take some of that burden off your shoulders.
Jim Cramer
#59. You want to know a sure way to lose money? Buy what's popular and don't know what you are investing in.
Walt Whitman
#60. Sometimes it's not about making a ton of money in one night, just to spend the rest of your life waiting on the next payday. You will fare better investing time, planning, strategic thinking in order to secure a stable, fruitful future.
Carlos Wallace
#61. Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.
Warren Buffett
#62. We don't need men, but we do need to take better care of our money, saving and investing it for a secure future, whether a soul mate comes along or not.
Gail Harlow
#63. I think the very best attitude for anyone investing in the stock market is to make up his mind to lose money.
- The Duchess Gloriana XII
Leonard Wibberley
#64. He'd racketed around the world, collecting pirate's booty and investing it. Rather surprisingly, money made money.
Eloisa James
#65. Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.
Nathan Myhrvold
#66. If you have never missed when investing, you haven't been in there trying.
Venita VanCaspel
#67. Many businesses fail because the owner wasn't willing to invest and wasn't educated on the difference between spending money frivolously and investing money into the business for growth, and the risks and rewards of that cash infusion.
Carol Roth
#68. I believe in infrastructure, I believe in investing in your hard assets. Where I think government starts to fail is when it starts getting itself weighed down with the social programs. And I think the American public just feels like a lot of that money is tossed aside and wasted.
Mick Cornett
#69. Power of compounding is real and is extremely important. If you understand it, you earn it; if not, you pay it. The rule for compounding is simple - the sooner you start investing, the more time your money has to grow.
Jigar Patel
#70. Getting an unsophisticated client was the golden prize. The quickest way to make money on Wall Street is to take the most sophisticated product and try to sell it to the least sophisticated client.
Greg Smith
#71. Investing money is the process of committing resources in a strategic way to accomplish a specific objective.
Alan Gotthardt
#72. It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).
George Soros
#73. Cryptography [without system integrity] is like investing in an armored car to carry money between a customer living in a cardboard box and a person doing business on a park bench.
Gene Spafford
#74. Until you take time to discover yourself, you never know what you can achieve or how far you can go
Sunday Adelaja
#75. Investing time in adding value to yourself is the best way to invest time
Sunday Adelaja
#76. If Bill Gates woke up with Oprah's money he'd jump out the window.
Chris Rock
#77. In almost every walk of life, people buy more at lower prices; in the stock market they seem to buy more at higher prices.
James Grant
#78. The Federal Reserve has the capacity to operate in domestic money markets to maintain interest rates at a level consistent with our economic goals
Ben Bernanke
#79. 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
#80. Going through chemo is like investing money in a retirement account. You feel the hit right now, but later in life you get to reap the benefits - by still being alive.
Regina Brett
