Top 100 Money Investing Quotes
#1. Volatility in the up direction is not a problem-it's only downward volatility that offers discourse.
Coreen T. Sol
#2. A vast industry of stockbrokers, financial planners, and investment advisers skims a fortune for themselves off the top in exchange for passing their clients' money on to people who, as a whole, cannot possibly outperform the market.
Michael Lewis
#3. We think nothing of protecting consumers from faulty toasters or unsafe cars. Is it unreasonable to suggest that investors are entitled to information they can trust before investing their hard-earned money? I don't think it's unreasonable at all.
Jackie Speier
#4. When I retire, I wanna be able to just lay back. Only way to make it happen is to be investing my money, not spending it.
Moses Malone
#5. I take more jobs when I need more money, if I'm investing in films. I take fewer when I don't. Or if something really good comes along, I usually find a way to do a good job on it in the time that I've got.
John Sayles
#6. We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
Barack Obama
#7. Investing in yourself is the best way to utilize time
Sunday Adelaja
#8. It is difficult to systematically beat the market. But it is not difficult to systematically throw money down a rat hole by generating commissions and other costs.
Michael Jensen
#9. I've seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage
leverage being borrowed money. You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing.
Warren Buffett
#10. 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
#11. Investing a lot of time and money in external beauty and caring little about internal beauty.
Paulo Coelho
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Your assets are your employees. Invest more on those performing well. Let the non performers go.
Manoj Arora
#15. Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public.
Gavyn Davies
#16. Perhaps you will ask whether I can raise these three millions without difficulty. Well, nearly all my capital is invested in land, but I have some money out at interest and I can borrow without any trouble.
Pliny The Younger
#17. Nearly every time I strayed from the herd, I've made a lot of money. Wandering away from the action is the way to find the new action.
Jim Rogers
#18. Achieving conventional goals, such as profits and joy, with unconventional methods, such as investing energy instead of money.
Jay Conrad Levinson
#19. If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.
John C. Bogle
#20. Know what you own, and know why you own it.
Peter Lynch
#22. 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
#23. One of the greatest deterrents to successful investing is the three-letter word ego.
Venita VanCaspel
#24. I think investing in a good education has been key for me, although the investment was more in time than money.
Nouriel Roubini
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. Investing now in safe-guarding people by helping them to adapt to climate change, will help save money and lives while building resilience.
Michael Franti
#30. In the long run, a portfolio of well chosen stocks and/or equity mutual funds will always outperform a portfolio of bonds or a money-market account. In the long run, a portfolio of poorly chosen stocks won't outperform the money left under the mattress.
Peter Lynch
#31. ...Sometimes one just had to forge on and let the chips fall where they may. After all, we were the ones in the trenches, investing our will, hearts, sweat, and money while the critics spent nothing but words.
Delfi Messinger
#32. You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.
Warren Buffett
#33. I'm not sure at all that I'm any good at this mentoring/investing business - that's why I'm using my own money, and that's why it's not a career.
Jerry Yang
#34. The key to making money in angel investing is saying no. You meet with 100 companies and say no to 99 of them.
Kevin Rose
#35. Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money.
Warren Buffett
#36. In this day and age it's really stupid to be stupid about financial matters. It doesn't do you any good to make money if you don't know what to do with it other than spend it.
Maria Shriver
#37. Hint: money flows into most funds after good performance, and goes out when bad performance follows.
John C. Bogle
#38. I wouldn't call Loopt a failure. It didn't turn out like I wanted, for sure, but it was fun, I learned a lot, and I made enough money to start investing, which led me to my current job. I don't regret it at all.
Sam Altman
#39. You're generally better off sticking with what you know.
Donald Trump
#40. We need to start to talk about money in ways that dethrone it and make it subject to human ethics and standards of love and decency.
Joel Solomon
#41. 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
#42. While Financier George Soros was investing money in Kosovo's reconstruction, the George Soros Foundation for an Open Society had opened a branch office in Pristina establishing the Kosovo Foundation for an Open Society (KFOS) as part of the Soros' network of "non-profit foundations" in the Balkans.
Michel Chossudovsky
#43. Everyday i meet with clients including widows and divorcees who have the same fears about money and it's my role to empower them, and women in general, to take control of their finances and create a plan.
Maili Wong
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. It is possible to increase paper-money income to any amount by debasing the currency. But real income can only be increased by working harder or more efficiently, saving more, investing more, and producing more.
Henry Hazlitt
#47. Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.
Peter Lynch
#48. Potential stakeholders usually rely upon governance elements prior to investing their time, talent, and/or money.
Robert E. Davis
#49. Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing.
J. Paul Getty
#50. IBM has research and development; so do Microsoft and Nike and even Jose Andres. But there hasn't been enough R&D on feeding people in the Third World. This has to be part of the process; if not, we'll keep throwing money at the problem instead of investing in true solutions.
Jose Andres
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).
George Soros
#54. 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
#55. Investing time in adding value to yourself is the best way to invest time
Sunday Adelaja
#56. If Bill Gates woke up with Oprah's money he'd jump out the window.
Chris Rock
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.'
John Templeton
#60. 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
#61. Love risk when making money. Hate risk when investing money.
Robert Rolih
#62. 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
#64. People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers. And that, in turn, is why Wall Street perennially downplays the durable virtues of investing and hypes the gaudy appeal of speculation.
Benjamin Graham
#65. A dream business that doesn't make money is a living nightmare.
Habeeb Akande
#66. 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
#67. More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing.
Peter Lynch
#68. We will only do with your money what we would do with our own.
Warren Buffett
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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.
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. You don't need to chase wealth, just become a real entrepreneur and the world is your oyster.
Amah Lambert
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. Money is always eager and ready to work for anyone who is ready to employ it.
Idowu Koyenikan
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. Experience taught me to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.
Donald Trump
#84. 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
#85. In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.
Robert Kiyosaki
#86. 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
#87. Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.
Warren Buffett
#88. 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
#89. Investing money is the process of committing resources in a strategic way to accomplish a specific objective.
Alan Gotthardt
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.
George Soros
#95. 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
#96. Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth.
Paul Clitheroe
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. He'd racketed around the world, collecting pirate's booty and investing it. Rather surprisingly, money made money.
Eloisa James
#100. If you have never missed when investing, you haven't been in there trying.
Venita VanCaspel
