Top 21 Philip Fisher Quotes
#1. My father, Philip Fisher, was the toughest guy I ever knew. An example: He had terrible teeth, yet he got his fillings done without ever using a painkiller. Now, that's tough!
Kenneth Fisher
#2. I do not think there are many among Bishops that will be saved, but many more that perish.
Saint John Chrysostom
#3. I had made what I believe was one of the more valuable decisions of my business life. This was to confine all efforts solely to making major gains in the long-run.
Philip Arthur Fisher
#4. The successful investor is usually an individual who is inherently interested in business problems.
Philip Arthur Fisher
#5. I have already made up my mind, don't confuse me with facts.
Philip A. Fisher
#6. Every day you miss playing or practicing is one day longer it takes to be good.
Ben Hogan
#7. 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
#8. History has shown that in every age and in every field of human knowledge, many of the views which almost everyone accepted as true and never bothered to think about further, were in time proven completely wrong.
Philip Arthur Fisher
#10. Even in those earlier times, finding the really outstanding companies and staying with them through all the fluctuations of a gyrating market proved far more profitable to far more people than did the more colorful practice of trying to buy them cheap and sell them dear.
Philip Arthur Fisher
#11. But his very best questions always popped out of his mind, unprepared, never having been written down in advance because they were the angle he picked up on the fly, as he heard an answer to a lesser question. Those creative questions were the art. It is what, in my mind, made his querying great.
Philip A. Fisher
#12. The public already knows about me more than I ever wanted it to know.
Paul Reubens
#13. Putin has big plans for Russia ... Hats off to the Russians. I think I would just get along very well with Vladimir Putin.
Pope Francis
#14. Of one thing the investor can be certain: A large company's need to bring in a new chief executive from the outside is a damning sign of something basically wrong with the existing management - no matter how good the surface signs may have been as indicated by the most recent earnings statement.
Philip Arthur Fisher
#15. My mistake was to project my skill beyond the limits of experience. I began investing outside the I began investing outside of the industries which I believe I thoroughly understood, in completely different spheres of activity; situations where I did not have comparable background knowledge.
Philip Arthur Fisher
#16. Be extra careful when buying into companies and industries that are the current darlings of the financial community ...
Philip Arthur Fisher
#17. I remember my sense of shock some half-dozen years ago when I read a recommendation to sell shares of a company ... The recommendation was not based on any long-term fundamentals. Rather, it was that over the next six months the funds could be employed more profitably elsewhere.
Philip Arthur Fisher
#18. O blessed be the grace that makes advantages of my corruptions, even to contradict and kill themselves (648).
Richard Baxter
#20. I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.
Helen Keller
#21. Practical investors usually learn their problem is finding enough outstanding investments, rather than choosing among too many.
Philip Arthur Fisher
