Money Stocks Quotes

#1. Benjamin Graham wrote, "Those with enterprise haven't the money, and those with money haven't the enterprise, to buy stocks when they are cheap."

Seth Klarman

#2. Instead of stocks investors should invest in blankets, that way they'll at least have something to keep them warm after they've lost all their money when the company goes under.

Amy Summers

#3. Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That's because, when you invest in real estate, you often see a side of humanity that stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and saving money shelter you from.

Robert Kiyosaki

#4. You don't make money when you buy stocks. And you don't make money when you sell stocks. You make money by waiting.

Mohnish Pabrai

#5. I was a workaholic. I never stopped. I lived in fifth gear. I bought cars. I invested in stocks. I made more money than I had ever imagined.

Mitch Albom

#6. Do you have any idea how cheap stocks are? Wall Street is now being called Wall Mart Street

Jay Leno

#7. Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

Warren Buffett

#8. Please sell $10,000 worth of stock - we have decided to lead a mad and extravagant life.

Harry Crosby

#9. Italians have always had a high savings rate. They love putting their money into their own government bonds - even more than in houses, stocks and gold. The higher rates climb, the happier they are to invest. So if austerity plans drive rates up, it's music to Italian ears.

Kenneth Fisher

#10. The way we make money as a group is that we don't pay a lot for anything, and most of the stocks we buy have low expectations.

Joel Greenblatt

#11. If you hope to have more money tomorrow than you have today, you've got to put a chunk of your assets into stocks. Sooner or later, a portfolio of stocks or stock mutual funds will turn out to be a lot more valuable than a portfolio of bonds or CDs or money-market funds.

Peter Lynch

#12. I made money. What am I gonna invest in? Stocks? No. I'm going to invest in music.

Melissa Auf Der Maur

#13. If there's a recession, I'd buy stocks. That's when you make money: when markets are spooked.

Ben Stein

#14. For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.

Jackie Chan

#15. My method for picking stocks has never changed. When businesses go from crappy to semicrappy, there's money to be made.

Peter Lynch

#16. I don't own any stocks or bonds. All my money is tied up in debt.

George Carlin

#17. I think that stocks have been this tremendous, tremendous equalizer for people in this country. Guys who can't make a lot of money at their jobs have been able to make a lot of money in the stock market.

Jim Cramer

#18. You had a lot of novice investors who got into the market looking for easy money, without any regard to the fundamentals. These stocks were running on fumes.

Bernard Madoff

#19. If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.

John C. Bogle

#20. The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.

Peter Lynch

#21. 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

#22. Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

Henry Ward Beecher

#23. I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to institutions. In those days, which was the 1960s, the institutional salesman was making about $100,000 a year. I thought that was just an enormous amount of money.

Henry Kravis

#24. Not so long ago, companies that borrowed lots of money were considered risky, appropriate only for daredevil stock pickers. Those with lots of cash on hand and few outstanding debts might be dull stocks, but they were at least safe bets for bondholders.

Charles Duhigg

#25. Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.

Peter Lynch

#26. "On Pat Hearne - He made money in stocks, and that made people ask him for advice. He would never give any. If they asked him point-blank for his opinion about the wisdom of their commitments he used a favorite race-track maxim of his: "You can't tell till you bet.""

Jesse Lauriston Livermore

#27. People will make worse financial decisions for them if they're choosing from a lot of options than if they're choosing from a few options. If they have more options they're more likely to avoid stocks and put all their money in money market accounts, which doesn't even grow at the rate of inflation.

Sheena Iyengar

#28. 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

#29. The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do deserve to lose money.

Jim Cramer

#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. The stock market cares about only one thing above all else: anticipated earnings. If companies make more money, their share prices eventually rise. The stock price is simply a reflection of a company's earning power. Everything else is noise.

Peter Mallouk

#32. It is not real estate, gold, stocks, hard work, or money that makes you rich; it is what you know about real estate, gold, stocks, hard work, and money that makes you rich. Ultimately, it is your financial intelligence that makes you rich.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#33. 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

#34. Stocks always go down much faster than they go up. That's why it's called a crash. People who put their money into the stocks will find, all of a sudden, that stock prices are no longer being supported by the debt leveraging that's been holding them up.

Michael Hudson

#35. An average trader loses money, so in this profession, you need to be way above average to make consistent money trading the markets.

Henrique M. Simoes

#36. 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.

#37. It's not always easy to do what's not popular, but that's where you make your money. Buy stocks that look bad to less careful investors and hang on until their real value is recognized.

John Neff

#38. I used to trade stocks online, and I kind of felt gross, like, all I'm doing is making money off other people's creativity, and I'm not creating anything myself.

Nathan Fielder

#39. Stocks have tanked. Shouldn't you have asked for that money back?

John McCain

#40. If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It's the worst possible thing you can do, because people are so sensitive to short-term losses. If you count your money every day, you'll be miserable.

Daniel Kahneman

#41. What I'm saying is that there are bargains right now, there are stocks right now that if you're shrewd enough, you will be able to buy them at the opening today and I you'll make money in a year from now.

Jim Cramer

#42. He advised that I could invest in stocks to make money. Given that I have a negative balance, that was where the conversation stopped.

Vann Chow

#43. You only need a few good stocks in your lifetime. I mean how many times do you need a stock to go up ten-fold to make a lot of money? Not a lot.

Peter Lynch

#44. Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Andre Malraux

#45. There is nothing earthly that lasts so well, as money. A man's learning dies with him, as does his virtues fade out of remembrance, but the dividends on the stocks he bequeaths to his children live and keep his memory green.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#46. The question is not do you take money out of stocks and put it into real estate, or the reverse. There's so much money out there looking for a home. I don't think it's either/or.

Sam Zell

#47. There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.

P. J. O'Rourke

#48. What if I told you that, not only can you not beat the market, but most stocks actually lose money.

Kenneth Eade

#49. The trend of the market is up, not down. Shorting stocks puts you against that trend and thus makes it more difficult to make money.

Guy Spier

#50. Credit expansion and money printing hasn't filtered much to ordinary people. It's boosted asset markets, real estate and stocks. So well-to-do-people have done very well.

Marc Faber

#51. I could never gamble on stocks and shares because I saw my father get hurt that way - he lost quite a lot of money when the stock market collapsed in 2001.

Mark Billingham

#52. The pharmaceutical drug industry is a half-trillion dollar per year global industry, with almost 300 billion dollars in the United States alone. The pharmaceutical companies and their shareholders rely on people to be sick, or else their stocks will plummet. There is no money to be made in health.

Joseph P. Kauffman

#53. The man who begins to speculate in stocks with the intention of making a fortune usually goes broke, whereas the man who trades with a view of getting good interest on his money sometimes gets rich.

Charles Dow

#54. One of our big challenges with the newsletter is that everyone thinks big stocks are safe. That's not true at all. They're only safe if the money is flowing there.

Louis Navellier

#55. Under pressure from a growing movement of people who want their money out of fossil fuels, universities, pension investors and foundations are looking to exclude coal, oil and gas stocks from their portfolios.

Frances Beinecke

#56. You have never lost money in stocks over any 20-year period, but you have wiped out half your portfolio in bonds (after inflation). So which is the riskier asset?

Jeremy Siegel

#57. Stocks are at an all-time high today. I don't have any money in the stock market. I don't have the stomach for the ups and downs. So about 20 years ago I put all of my money and liquid assets into videotape rewind machines.

David Letterman

#58. Stocks may come and stocks may go, but food goes on forever.

Beatrice Fairfax

#59. 39 percent of stocks had a negative total return. (Two out of every five stocks are money-losing investments.)

John Del Vecchio

#60. If you have good stocks and you really know them, you'll make money if you're patient over three years or more.

David Dreman

#61. Economics is all about consumption. People either spend money now or they use financial instruments - like bonds, stocks and savings accounts - so they can spend more later.

Adam Davidson