Top 53 Quotes About Investing In Stocks
#1. 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
#2. Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.
Bill Gates
#3. 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
#4. You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks.
Peter Lynch
#5. In order to win as a contrarian, you need perfect timing and the perfect size.
Henrique M. Simoes
#6. 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
#7. One of the big problems with growth investing is that we can't estimate earnings very well. I really want to buy growth at value prices. I always look at trailing earnings when I judge stocks.
David Dreman
#8. Owning stocks is like having children - don't get involved with more than you can handle.
Peter Lynch
#9. All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the minuses from the stocks that don't work out.
Peter Lynch
#10. People who want to know how stocks fared on any given day ask, "Where did the Dow close?" I'm more interested in how many stocks went up versus how many went down. These so-called advance/decline numbers paint a more realistic picture.
Peter Lynch
#11. If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.
John C. Bogle
#12. The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern.
Benjamin Graham
#13. 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
#14. If the market were way over priced, I wouldn't own any stocks.
Walter Schloss
#15. You shouldn't own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.
Warren Buffett
#16. 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
#17. If there are not too many value stocks that I can find, the market isn't all that cheap.
Walter Schloss
#18. There are no good or bad stocks. The company is either good or bad. Stocks are just stocks.
Kenneth L. Fisher
#19. Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.
Peter Lynch
#20. The best values today are often found in the stocks that were once hot and have since gone cold.
Benjamin Graham
#21. The broker said the stock was "poised to move." Silly me, I thought he meant up.
Randy Thurman
#22. 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
#23. Investors ... can't pick stocks that are better than average. Stocks are a good thing to own over time. There's only two things you can do wrong: You can buy the wrong ones, and you can buy or sell them at the wrong time. And the truth is you never need to sell them.
Warren Buffett
#24. If, instead of playing the horses, an individual chooses to play the market, that is his own affair. Only he must understand that speculating in stocks is gambling, not investing.
Catherine Crook De Camp
#25. Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks.
Scott Cook
#26. The most popular investing products are the worst ones for investors.
Robert Rolih
#27. I never hesitate to tell a man that I am bullish or bearish. But I do not tell people to buy or sell any particular stock. In a bear market all stocks go down and in a bull market they go up.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#28. 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
#29. Fear and greed are probably the worst emotions to have in connection with the purchase and sale of stocks.
Walter Schloss
#30. 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
#31. The word passive does a disservice to investors considering their options. Indexing provides an effective means of owning the market and allows investors to participate in the returns of a basket of stocks. The basket of stocks changes over time as stocks are added or removed based on its rules.
Charles R. Schwab
#32. 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.
#33. Reliability investing requires finding companies trading below their inherent worth
stocks with strong fundamentals including earnings, dividends, book value, and cash flow selling at bargain prices give their quality.
Amah Lambert
#34. Each year we buy stocks and they go up, we sell them and then we try to buy something cheaper.
Walter Schloss
#35. We like to buy stocks which we feel are undervalued and then we have to have the guts to buy more when they go down.
Walter Schloss
#36. 95% of penny stocks are junk. I show you how to find the other 5%, and do it all without bribes or vested interests. Just good quality companies.
Peter Leeds
#37. There is no reason to feel any shame in hiring someone to pick stocks or mutual funds for you. But there's one responsibility that you must never delegate. You, and no one but you, must investigate whether an adviser is trustworthy and charges reasonable fees.
Benjamin Graham
#38. Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well.
Warren Buffett
#39. Civil war tends to give a helping hand to the velocity of currency, Ukraine can attest to that. However, it is quite an unpleasant way to find the intrinsic value of worthlessness.
Tom Wallace
#40. An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.
Peter Lynch
#42. Some kinds of stocks are easier to analyse than others.
Walter Schloss
#43. The most striking thing about Graham's discussion of how to allocate your assets between stocks and bonds is that he never mentions the word "age".
Benjamin Graham
#44. The intelligent investor gets interested in big growth stocks not when they are at their most popular - but when something goes wrong.
Benjamin Graham
#45. If I buy stocks on Smith's tip I must sell those same stocks on Smith's tip. I am depending on him. Suppose Smith is away on a holiday when the selling time comes around?
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#46. All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good companies.
Warren Buffett
#48. Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains.
John C. Bogle
#49. October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.
Mark Twain
#50. In an ideal world, the intelligent investor would hold stocks only when they are cheap and sell them when they become overpriced, then duck into the bunker of bonds and cash until stocks again become cheap enough to buy.
Benjamin Graham
#51. If you expect to continue to purchase stocks throughout your life, you should welcome price declines as a way to add stocks more cheaply to your portfolio.
Warren Buffett
#52. Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.
Warren Buffett
#53. The sad truth is that it is precisely those who disagree most with the hypothesis of efficient market pricing of stocks, those who pooh-pooh beta analysis and all that, who are least able to understand the analysis needed to test that hypothesis.
Paul Samuelson
