Top 100 Quotes About Investing
#1. Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent and rational investing.
Barry Ritholtz
#2. Investing money is the process of committing resources in a strategic way to accomplish a specific objective.
Alan Gotthardt
#3. Have a philosophy of investment and try to follow it.
Walter Schloss
#4. Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.
Fred Wilson
#5. The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy.
John Templeton
#6. The behavioral bias solution is a clear focus on disciplined and systematic investing. Stop with the discretion and trying to be smarter than your peers and focus on a set of clear rules that can actually diminish or eliminate these biases.
Anonymous
#7. In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and emotional impossibility.
Benjamin Graham
#8. My advice to this investor is the same that I give to the young investors in my classes Devote the same earnest attention to investing that $50,000 as you devoted to earning it.
Ivan Boesky
#9. Investing in tomorrow's technology today is more critical than ever ...
Bill Gates
#10. 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
#11. You can't solve today's new problems with yesterday's old processes
Rick Otton
#12. In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.
Bill Gates
#13. Like most such tasks, cooking vegetables involves investing large amounts of time in deep thought and procrastination and a relatively small amount of time actually doing the job.
Richard David Feinman
#14. 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
#15. Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom.
Warren Buffett
#16. Improving the skills of HR colleagues. The best learners are also teachers. Investing in building the skills of HR colleagues requires individuals to be clear and disciplined about a topical area, tool, or technology.
David Ulrich
#17. This LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into harmony.
Kavita Ramdas
#18. Unilever, Nestle and SAB Miller are all taking a long-term approach to investing in sustainable resource consumption. Each is driving through better resource management, which is expected to yield positive returns in the future.
Jacob Rothschild
#19. I really like my life. I've arranged my life so that I can do what I want.
Warren Buffett
#20. Mauna Kea is a known biologically hostile work environment and one can only wonder why the
astronomy community is investing 1.4 billion dollars to build the world's largest telescope there.
Steven Magee
#21. Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!
John C. Bogle
#22. investors. I have been a student of the philosophy of value investing, which of course was established, executed, and popularized by superinvestors Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffet, and Seth Klarman among
Sundeep Bajikar
#23. All the research shows that investing in women is a good investment
Cherie Blair
#24. Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley. Most people don't want Ferraris, they want a winning seed investment.
Sam Altman
#26. Practical investors usually learn their problem is finding enough outstanding investments, rather than choosing among too many.
Philip Arthur Fisher
#27. 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
#28. Smart Risk will shatter the emotional myths to investing and help Canadians see the opportunities in today's volatile market.
Maili Wong
#30. When interest rates are low we have conditions for asset bubbles to develop, and they are developing at the moment. The ultimate asset bubble is gold.
George Soros
#32. I work out on almost a daily basis wherever I am, but yoga brings into that equation something that is ideal for me to maintain a physical and emotional and mental kind of balance, and to stay healthy - I see it as a way of investing in my future.
Queen Noor Of Jordan
#33. You see countries like India really investing in their space program because they see it as inspirational and good for their economy.
Ellen Stofan
#34. Famed value investor Guy Spier has managed to write what is both a gripping memoir and a fascinating study of what it takes to succeed in investing and life. A must read!
John Mihaljevic
#35. Investing capital in the free market creates innovation, businesses, jobs and economic growth. Investing capital in the government creates more bureaucracy, more paperwork and inefficiency.
Michael Ramirez
#36. When investing, more effort means worse results, most of the time.
Robert Rolih
#37. In ourselves, rather than in material nature, lie the true source and life of the beautiful. The human soul is the sun which diffuses light on every side, investing creation with its lovely hues, and calling forth the poetic element that lies hidden in every existing thing.
Giuseppe Mazzini
#38. If your broker or investment advisor is not familiar with the concept of standard deviation of returns, get a new one.
William J. Bernstein
#39. 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
#40. You must never delude yourself into thinking that you're investing when you're speculating.
Benjamin Graham
#41. The Americans are good about making fancy cars and refrigerators, but that doesn't mean they are any good at making aircraft. They are bluffing. They are excellent at bluffing.
Hermann Goring
#42. Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.
James Altucher
#43. 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.
#44. Investing is a negative game emotionally. If you're playing for the emotional satisfaction, you're bound to lose, because what feels good is often the wrong thing to do. When all the criteria are in balance, do the thing you least want to do.
William Eckhardt
#45. Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of earnings that is not reportable by us under standard accounting principles than to purchase $1 of earnings that is reportable.
Warren Buffett
#46. 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
#47. How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.
Robert G. Allen
#48. 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
#49. Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are.
Warren Buffett
#50. 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
#51. The efficient market theory is one of the better models in the sense that it can be taken as true for every purpose I can think of. For investment purposes, there are very few investors that shouldn't behave as if markets are totally efficient.
Eugene Fama
#52. There's a herd instinct, and every time that people hear an announcement such as PayPal's in Dundalk, they start thinking, 'Ireland must be good if they're investing there', and by extension, 'Dundalk must be good, so let's have a look at it.'
Martin Naughton
#53. Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence.
Jeremy Siegel
#54. While many applauded Oprah for opening her heart to young girls in South Africa, some criticized her for not investing in the youth of America.
Kitty Kelley
#55. We will only do with your money what we would do with our own.
Warren Buffett
#57. 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
#58. Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future.
Warren Buffett
#59. The market is a very emotional place that appeals to fear and greed.
Walter Schloss
#60. Visiting stores and testing products is one of the critical elements of the analyst's job.
Peter Lynch
#61. We need to continue investing in the programs that put Americans back to work in communities like Clark County.
Maria Cantwell
#62. Each year we buy stocks and they go up, we sell them and then we try to buy something cheaper.
Walter Schloss
#63. Mr. Denzi can teach us all something about accumulating wealth. Begin earning and investing early in your adult life. That will enable you to outpace the wealth accumulation levels of even the so-called gifted kids from your high school class. Remember, wealth is blind.
Thomas J. Stanley
#64. I love handbags. And shoes. Investing in like a great handbag or a pair of shoes can really make or break an outfit. It's fun to mix and match high street with luxury brands and throw in a bit of vintage as well.
Miranda Kerr
#66. More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing.
Peter Lynch
#67. Earnings can change dramatically. Usually assets change slowly.
Walter Schloss
#68. Time is a most precious asset. Would you consider investing more of your time in the things of eternity in order to merit the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost and to benefit more fully from His influence?
Keith K. Hilbig
#69. I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.
Warren Buffett
#71. I find it more enjoyable investing time doing what pleases me, rather than wasting precious time attempting to please everyone else.
Greg Reid
#72. Investing solely for 'income,' investing merely 'to keep capital employed,' and investing simply 'to hedge against inflation' are all entirely out of the question.
Gerald M. Loeb
#73. The intelligent investor should recognize that market panics can create great prices for good companies and good prices for great companies.
Benjamin Graham
#74. Impact investing can be a powerful instrument of change.
Judith Rodin
#76. Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.
Warren Buffett
#77. Index investing outperforms active management year after year.
Jim Rogers
#78. The safe time to invest is when there is blood in the streets.
Mark Mobius
#79. The investor should be aware that even though safety of its principal and interest may be unquestioned, a long term bond could vary widely in market price in response to changes in interest rates.
Benjamin Graham
#80. There is no other proposition in economics that has more solid empirical evidence supporting it than the Efficient Market Hypothesis ... In the literature of finance, accounting, and the economics of uncertainty, the EMH is accepted as a fact of life.
Michael Jensen
#81. There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification.
Benjamin Graham
#82. 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
#83. When investing, I'm not against risk. If you take no risk you must expect a low return. Just don't let anyone fool you into thinking you can get a high return with low risk.
Paul Clitheroe
#85. Anything can happen in stock markets and you ought to conduct your affairs so that if the most extraordinary events happen, that you're still around to play the next day.
Warren Buffett
#86. Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
John Maynard Keynes
#87. A dream business that doesn't make money is a living nightmare.
Habeeb Akande
#88. An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes.
Warren Buffett
#89. There is empirical evidence that leading brands that keep investing during recessions gain share.
Ken Kaess
#90. In our society, it's been the men who've handled most of the finances, and the women who've stood by and watched men botch things up.
Peter Lynch
#91. So instead of investing your time in a passion, you've sold your life to work for an uncaring machine that doesn't understand you. That's the problem with our society. And what's the reward? Go home and get a big TV.
Joe Rogan
#93. 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
#94. Investing in early childhood nutrition is a surefire strategy. The returns are incredibly high.
Anne M. Mulcahy
#95. Your success in investing will depend in part on your character and guts, and in part on your ability to realize at the height of ebullience and the depth of despair alike that this too shall pass.
John C. Bogle
#96. You do not adequately protect yourself by being half awake when other are sleeping.
Warren Buffett
#97. That's one of the challenges of investing in China, is the lack of clarity with respect to tax positions.
Jim Oberweis
#98. I've been investing in the stock market for 27 years and, within that time, have helped investors beat the market nearly four to one.
Louis Navellier
#99. It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society. The thoughts alone suffice them, without investing itself in the flesh and blood of action.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#100. Love is about investing in the best interest of another without regard to our own interest.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
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