Top 100 Quotes About Investing
#1. The more you talk about investing problems, the worse you feel. Instead of complaining, it's better to do something.
Kenneth Fisher
#2. I'm investing in myself, I'm investing in others and I'm investing in my cause. I know if I persist it will pay back in dividends and it always does.
Simon Sinek
#3. Some companies are already investing in women and thereby betting on a brighter future - for a workforce just waiting to blossom, for emerging economies whose development depends on this new talent, and, of course, for their own financial growth.
Beth Brooke
#4. Warren Buffett once wrote that value investing is like an inoculation
it either takes or it doesn't
and when you explain to somebody what it is and how it works and why it works and show them the returns, either they get it or they don't.
Seth Klarman
#5. The early 1990s was a time of great advancements in precooked bacon technology. Pork producers, food labs, and agricultural schools such as Iowa State University began investing substantially in precooked R&D.
David Sax
#6. Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
Robert Kiyosaki
#7. To offer women something that feels more about investing in something and less about being disposable is a complete corrective to the world we live in
Phoebe Philo
#8. I am not criticizing investing in the stock market; I am an investor.
Grace Napolitano
#9. Every time the U.S. government makes a low-cost loan to someone, it's investing in them.
Elizabeth Warren
#10. I had a couple come in with a negative amortization mortgage on a house that costs way too much relative to their income. They're consuming real estate, not investing in it.
Chris Cooper
#11. Transfer payments discourage the recipients from earning income in the present and from investing in their potential to earn income in the future. People respond to a reduced cost of idleness by choosing to be idle more often.
Robert Higgs
#12. When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: 'we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year.
Warren Buffett
#13. The transaction reflects our disciplined strategy of investing capital in core businesses where we can leverage scale and expertise for competitive advantage. In addition to being a great strategic fit, the deal is compelling financially.
Jamie Dimon
#14. If you are playing the rigged game of investing, the house always wins.
Robert Rolih
#15. Ensuring a healthy future means investing in the generation who will carry that future.
Mal Fletcher
#16. Of course. I favor passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.
Merton Miller
#17. If you are not good at innovating, be smart in investing.
Rifhi Siddiq
#18. From my experience, there are so many regulations for investing in the United States that they become an impediment, a barrier to investing.
Michael Otto
#19. The world has shifted to the palm of our hand, or a tablet. We hadn't been investing in 'Quicken' that way.
Brad D. Smith
#20. All of our competitors around the world, every country is investing more in infrastructure as a percentage of their GDP than we are. And down the road our children and grandchildren will have to compete with that more and more.
Douglas R. Oberhelman
#21. When ministers in this government talk about investing in education and skills, about making the planning system work; about employment law reform and delivering transport and power generation and broadband communication infrastructure, we are talking about raising Britain's productivity.
Philip Hammond
#22. 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
#23. You can invest to create the new growth business while the core business is still growing, because new business units don't need to get big fast. But when the core business stops growing, investing to create new growth businesses becomes impossible.
Clayton Christensen
#24. Many U.S. investors are already investing overseas rather than at home.
Robert Kiyosaki
#25. The big success stories - Facebook, Zynga and Twitter - are leading to investing in ideas on a napkin, because no one wants to miss out on the next big thing.
Eric Lefkofsky
#27. 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
#28. Democrats are going to proudly run on the fact that we turned the economy around. It was our policies under President Obama's leadership through the Recovery Act, through investing in the automobile industry.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
#29. Investors know that a major factor to investing success is the ability to go where others will not. That's where an investor will be able to achieve excess returns versus the overall market, if executed properly. However, the concept of contrarianism can be taken to extremes at times.
J. Lukas Neely
#30. If you're not working to get your business or investing operation to operate without you, you're thinking too small. Think team and systems.
Robert Kiyosaki
#31. Investing is where you find a few great companies and then sit on your ass.
Charlie Munger
#32. The Republicans are wrong in thinking that the rich create jobs. In reality, many of the richest Americans have been investing in efficiency innovations rather than to create jobs. And the Democrats are wrong, because growth won't happen if they distribute the wealth of the wealthy to everyone else.
Clayton Christensen
#33. What you have as a result of past policies is that German entrepreneurs go outside of Germany for many of their activities. They are investing abroad instead of at home because there isn't the openness, fluidity and opportunity they find outside their borders.
Milton Friedman
#34. Our economic strength at home is key to our diplomatic and military strength abroad. We should be investing far more in education as well as our technological and economic development so that we have the resources to support our foreign policy.
Ruben Gallego
#35. Every day we are paying more for energy than we should due to poor insulation, inefficient lights, appliances, and heating and cooling equipment - money we could save by investing in energy efficiency.
Bernie Sanders
#36. We are big fans of fear, and in investing it is clearly better to be scared than sorry.
Seth Klarman
#37. We have a mentoring and angel investing programme. We are also talking to the government to help create a VC industry.
Romesh Wadhwani
#38. What's both fascinating and challenging about investing is that the changing nature of business and finance means you can never have it all figured out.
Whitney Tilson
#39. If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.
Barry Ritholtz
#40. When the Federal government buys the mortgages, they're not spending it, they're investing it.
Howard Warren Buffett
#41. Investing in yourself is the best way to utilize time
Sunday Adelaja
#42. No economic measure has more value for a nation than investing in a clean & sustainable low carbon future
Phil Harding
#43. If I were investing in oil and gas stocks, there is one question I would ask CEO's: What portion of your capital is going to have to go in to stay even
Gwyn Morgan
#44. Your investor's edge is not something you get from Wall Street experts. It's something you already have. You can outperform the experts if you use your edge by investing in companies or industries you already understand.
Peter Lynch
#45. 'Bonnie and Clyde' was the first show and the first role that I got to originate. Being part of that from the ground up and investing three years of my life into seeing that show come to Broadway was really rigorous but also so exciting.
Laura Osnes
#46. Investing requires qualities of temperament way more than it requires qualities of intellect.
Warren Buffett
#47. 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
#48. Value investing is the discipline of buying shares at a significant discount from their current underlying values and holding them until more of their value is realised. The element of a bargain is the key to the process.
Seth Klarman
#49. The pursuit of things robs me of investing more in the work of Christ.
Jack Hyles
#50. It just seems logical that sticking to investing in only a small number of companies that you understand well, rather than moving down the list to your thirtieth or fiftieth favorite pick, would create a much greater potential to earn above-average investment returns.
Joel Greenblatt
#51. Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.
Peter Lynch
#52. Our Fly Smart philosophy is about investing only on those points of differentiation that pay for themselves, that earn a revenue premium commensurate with what it costs us to provide that product or service.
Gerard Arpey
#53. That is why success and fruitfulness depend as much upon focusing on the "who" you are as much as the "what" of the work you do. Invest in your character, and it will give you the returns that you are looking for by only investing in the work itself. You can't do the latter without the former.
Henry Cloud
#55. Investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. it will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you.
Robin S. Sharma
#56. We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.
Timothy Murphy
#57. Investing a lot of time and money in external beauty and caring little about internal beauty.
Paulo Coelho
#58. I'm not against real estate investments, but I'm against investing the bank's money.
Celso Cukierkorn
#59. 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
#60. Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don't do any work.
Peter Lynch
#61. 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
#62. People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise they'll stop investing.
Steve Jobs
#63. One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world.
Ron Chernow
#64. The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage.
Warren Buffett
#65. Best definition of "investing" is "gambling with the odds in your favor." The people on the short side of the subprime mortgage market had gambled with the odds in their favor. The people on the other side - the entire financial system, essentially - had gambled with the odds against them.
Michael Lewis
#66. Let's hope brands recognize that the true power of this technology is not its reach but its ability to communicate substance that adds meaning to our lives. Otherwise, brands will be investing in technology that consumers simply won't buy.
Simon Mainwaring
#67. I decided I would go to NYU so I could get into the comedy world and have legit housing, and my parents would not have trusted investing in a straight-up comedy career.
Ilana Glazer
#68. For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough.
Guy Spier
#69. One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities of your mistakes. A bad call can lose you many millions.
Joshua Waitzkin
#70. Maryland schools succeed because we have never stopped investing in our students and doing the things that work.
Martin O'Malley
#71. The model of Coca-Cola is local, whether it's investing, partnering, sourcing, producing, or selling. We market and distribute locally; we pay taxes locally. And it works.
Muhtar Kent
#72. How do you think we build a future? I think we build it by investing in our kids and investing in education.
Elizabeth Warren
#73. 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
#74. By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.
Warren Buffett
#75. Warren spends 70 hours a week thinking about investing .
Charlie Munger
#76. Investing in renter's insurance is hugely worthwhile. It protects you from a whole load of financial pitfalls around your home. Your home should be the center of your sense of security - not the cause of you losing financial security.
Alexa Von Tobel
#77. Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?
Robert Kiyosaki
#78. Jay Z is building a range of businesses just on the strength of his brand. Lady Gaga has formed really interesting partnerships. Justin Bieber and his manager Scooter Braun are investing in a number of different companies and also promoting them in many ways.
Anita Elberse
#79. Windmills and solar cells are carbon-free sources of electricity. But they are costly. If you've been investing in those, give it up. That game is effectively over.
Kenneth Fisher
#80. Investing in friendship and love always brings great returns. - Edie Melson -
Gary Chapman
#81. The advantage of the free market system is that people invest their capital, they create jobs by investing their capital, and hopefully they get a return on that investment. I don't think there's anything wrong with good old American capitalism.
Steve Stivers
#82. Here's one truth that perhaps your typical investment counselor would disagree with: if you're comfortably rich and someone else is getting richer faster than you by, for example, investing in risky stocks, so what?! Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.
Charlie Munger
#83. Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure.
George Osborne
#84. The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.
Adam Davidson
#85. There are some people who actually enjoy firing. Beware of them. Firing instills a culture of fear that will inevitably fail, and "I'll just fire them" is an excuse for not investing the time to execute the hiring process well.
Eric Schmidt
#86. Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.
Thomas Sowell
#87. I just keep investing in the future, and I haven't reached the point where I'm not doing that.
Tao Lin
#88. Before you invest in anything else, exhaust the possibilities of investing in your own business first.
Paul Zane Pilzer
#89. Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of our children.
Kumi Naidoo
#90. Investing is simple. It's the financial industry that works hard to make it complex!
Robert Rolih
#91. In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a speculative undertaking.
Seth Klarman
#92. Investing in a startup does not make you an entrepreneur any more than buying a grand piano makes you a concert pianist.
Jeffrey Fry
#93. We are quite convinced that if he were alive today, as an astute businessman looking out to the future, he would be moving out of fossil fuels and investing in clean, renewable energy.
John D. Rockefeller
#94. As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius.
Ron Chernow
#95. But when that information travels only to a privileged few, when it is used to profit at the expense of the investing public, when that information comes by way of favored access rather than by acumen, insight or diligence, we must ask, 'Whose interest is really being served?'.
Arthur Levitt Jr
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. high cash compensation teaches workers to claim value from the company as it already exists instead of investing their time to create new value in the future.
Peter Thiel
#99. Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development - it has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony - and in service.
Akio Morita
#100. I'm standing here saying that those who miss the boat now, will miss it forever. So if you want to be in Africa, think about investing.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
