Quotes About Investors

#1. Boards of directors are allowed to work together, so are banks and investors and corporations in alliances with one another and with powerful states. That's just fine. It's just the poor who aren't supposed to cooperate.

Noam Chomsky

#2. I found that options traders - the Amex was mainly an options exchange - routinely conspired to keep as wide as possible the spreads between the prices investors paid and the prices floor traders paid for the same securities.

Gary Weiss

#3. Commissions add up, taxes are a big drag, margin ain't cheap. A good accountant costs money as well. The math on this one is obvious, yet investors often fail to recognize it: Keep your costs low and your turnover lower, and you will win in the end.

Barry Ritholtz

#4. I think the first word of caution is; It's not the kind of market where you need to jump in immediately on these downs. We've trained investors so much over the past decade and a half: Buy the dip, buy the dip.

Liz Miller

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Selling, in particular, can be a challenge; many investors are tempted to become more optimistic when a security is performing well. This temptation must be resisted; tax considerations aside, when a security reaches full valuation, there is no longer a reason to own it.

Seth Klarman

#8. What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.

P. J. O'Rourke

#9. Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.

Sam Altman

#10. I have 250 contacts, employees, and investors who, anytime they come across something relevant, will share it with me. I wake up to 10-15 links that people have explicitly recommended for me. I don't have to look for news anymore; it flows to me.

Garrett Camp

#11. There's still a lot of investors wondering what to invest in. And, of course, I think entertainment looks attractive when you read the few films that make these insane amounts of money. What they don't know is they don't always do that.

Ridley Scott

#12. I am obsessed with delivering value to investors and winning the game from a personal standpoint.

Bill Gross

#13. In every business I had ever started, even ones that had totally failed, I had kept good relations with the investors.

James Altucher

#14. Even a casual reader of the financial pages knows that microcaps are a perennial headache for regulators and, above all, for investors because they have been prone to abuse by stock manipulators.

Gary Weiss

#15. I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life Zuckerberg has been making $1 billion for investors.

Yuri Milner

#16. 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

#17. There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.

Yuri Milner

#18. Practical investors usually learn their problem is finding enough outstanding investments, rather than choosing among too many.

Philip Arthur Fisher

#19. Litigation funders are private companies that raise money from their investors to buy into big lawsuits.

John Grisham

#20. We upgrade URZ to a Buy; we see an entry opportunity with investors.

David Talbot

#21. Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology.

Arthur Levitt

#22. The cash held by US companies are hitting all time records. Companies are using some of this money to buy back their own stock at record rates. When a company is doing this it is saying to it's investors: We don't have any good ideas what to do with this, so here--maybe you do.

Geoff Colvin

#23. The ultimate arbiters of the models of banking and the management of banking are the investors. It's the shareholders.

Bob Diamond

#24. In the early days, I promoted the idea of spending time in libraries to gain facts that other investors didn't have. Not many people did that kind of research, so it worked.

Kenneth Fisher

#25. Common stock investors can make money by predicting the outcomes of practice evolution. You can't derive this by fundamental analysis - you must think biologically.

Charlie Munger

#26. Learn to sell. In business you're always selling: to your prospects, investors and employees. To be the best salesperson put yourself in the shoes of the person to whom you're selling. Don't sell your product. Solve their problems.

Mark Cuban

#27. What we have created instead, as customers and employers and investors, is mountains of paper wealth so enormous that a handful of people in charge of them can take millions and billions for themselves without hurting anyone. Apparently.

Many members of my generation are disappointed.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#28. 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

#29. Investors are employees you can never hire. We made sure to pick investors that thought like us.

Biz Stone

#30. Defaulting on the nation's debt would be cataclysmic. The U.S. Treasury's Aaa rating is the one constant in the world's financial system. When times are bad anywhere on the planet, global investors flock to Treasury bonds because they know they will get their money back.

Mark Zandi

#31. Value investors look at cash flows. If a company can maintain present cash flows for 5 or 6 years, it's a good investment. Investors then just hope that those cash flows - and thus the company's value - don't decrease faster than they anticipate.

Peter Thiel

#32. I almost always recommend investors get fully invested, since it's better to put your money to work than to let it simply track the rate of inflation.

Louis Navellier

#33. I personally have said many times I'd be a hundred percent in equities. That fits my risk profile and my views of the world, though obviously it's not appropriate for everyone. Most investors need a more diversified portfolio.

Laurence D. Fink

#34. If you can't honor a deal, make a new one and try to honor it. And when you're dealing with your investors' money, you have to act as if God himself wrote you the check.

Ryan Blair

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. The companies I have traditionally seen do best over the long term had lead investors for their seed rounds

Keith Rabois

#38. 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

#39. Think today's interest rates are high? The Pilgrims borrowed $7000 from a London company of 70 investors in 1620, and devoted the next 23 years to repaying it at 43 percent.

L. M. Boyd

#40. We are increasing our efforts to attract the right kind of foreign investors through our various agencies.

Hassanal Bolkiah

#41. We [Vietnam] happen to offer good investment opportunities for foreigners, although this is not a one-way street. Both we and the foreign investors benefit greatly as a result.

Nguyen Minh Triet

#42. My philosophy is that all stocks are bad. There are no good stocks unless they go up in price. If they go down instead, you have to cut your losses fast Letting losses run is the most serious mistake made by most investors.

William O'Neil

#43. My favorite pre-Ponzi schemer was known as '520 Percent Miller' because he promised 10 percent returns a week, or 520 percent a year. Of course he was just using new investors' money to pay old investors, and soon he was on the lam.

Mitchell Zuckoff

#44. We are determined to improve the economic environment by getting foreign investors in and by cutting red tape.

Igor Luksic

#45. All an investor can do is follow a consistently disciplined and rigorous approach; over time the returns will come

Seth Klarman

#46. Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.

Natalie Massenet

#47. Singleton has an almost uncanny ability to resist being caught up in the fads and fancies of the moment. Like most great innovators [and investors! - Ed.], Henry Singleton is supremely indifferent to criticism.

Robert J. Flaherty

#48. Many investors make the mistake of buying high and selling low while the exact opposite is the right strategy to outperform over the long term.

John Paulson

#49. Ratings agencies are highly conflicted, unimaginative dupes. They are blissfully unaware of adverse selection and moral hazard. Investors should never trust them.

Seth Klarman

#50. When he had explained why investors who wanted low risk and moderate returns should put their capital into national debt shares, Daisy had interrupted him by asking, Father, wouldn't it be wonderful if hummingbirds had tea parties and we were small enough to be invited?

Lisa Kleypas

#51. The trick of successful investors is to sell when they want to, not when they have to.

Seth Klarman

#52. I started Shutterstock without any outside funding; I believe in creating a lean startup. By not taking outside investors early, I was forced to use every dollar I had as efficiently as possible. And I was able to keep a large part of the company.

Jon Oringer

#53. My job is to support businesses, that means promoting British commerce in the big emerging markets that have been neglected in the past. It means keeping Britain open to inward investors, trade and skilled workers. It means cutting red tape which is suffocating growing companies which create jobs.

Vince Cable

#54. Investor confidence in Adani is fairly high, and most of our investors are long-term investors.

Gautam Adani

#55. The media and marketing deluge has spawned a new type of Wall Street loser: the armchair momentum player. These are novice investors who engage in short-term stock buying and selling based on media reports or an expert's enthusiasm.

Gary Weiss

#56. We have to develop the whole system of early stage investors and a tax system around it. For every Google that has come on the scene, there are hundred entrepreneurs who never did.

Jamshyd Godrej

#57. Over the years, that investors continued to fund Pike's grandiose predictions, the price of coal was high enough to send men day after day into a flawed & dangerous place. Now that they are dead the price is not high enough to get them out

Rebecca Macfie

#58. My positioning with my investors was always, I need three to five years.

Michael Burry

#59. Investors need to get rewarded for their investment, especially in unstable countries.

Beny Steinmetz

#60. When all feels calm and prices surge, the markets may feel safe; but, in fact, they are dangerous because few investors are focusing on risk.

Seth Klarman

#61. Investors that do the best, and have done the best, are those that stay and compound at above-average rates over the long term.

John Paulson

#62. 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

#63. Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of good business conditions. The purchasers view the good current earnings as equivalent to 'earning power' and assume that prosperity is equivalent to safety.

Benjamin Graham

#64. As we said, even the best venture investors have a portfolio, but investors who understand the power law make as few investments as possible.

Peter Thiel

#65. You lose only the things you have

Epictetus

#66. We work as a team. I think having the individual being shown as a star actually creates problems internally. We encourage all our investors to work as a team for the benefit of the founders.

Douglas Leone

#67. The mandate that I got from my investors is to invest. So far, we are on the right track, and it is the right formula to invest in Indonesia.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

#68. From 1983 to 2000, William Goren stole more than $30 million from investors on Long Island and in Queens. His favorite targets were widows and retired couples, like Helga and Simon Novack, Holocaust survivors who gave Mr. Goren their life savings.

Alex Berenson

#69. SOME PEOPLE ARE JUST born unlucky - so unlucky in fact that they do just the opposite of what they should at exactly the wrong time. Suckers? Maybe. But in the business of investing, those people have a name: retail investors.

Simon Constable

#70. It is intellectually dishonest to lump venture investors with hedge fund and buy-out investors.

Jose Ferreira

#71. A company could use bricks to measure their growth rate. How many bricks have angry investors thrown at you lately? If the answer is none, then your growth rate is probably pretty good ... for the moment.

Amy Summers

#72. And so Fannie Mae produces very strong results for investors in - when interest rates are high and when interest rates are low, in recession and during booms.

Franklin Raines

#73. In November 2007, the White House issued a Declaration of Principles demanding that U.S. forces must remain indefinitely in Iraq and committing Iraq to privilege American investors.

Noam Chomsky

#74. Like many other banks and finance companies, Green Tree used a process called securitization to resell its home loans to outside investors. Green Tree grouped thousands of these small loans into a pool worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Alex Berenson

#75. Most troublesome is the legalization of 'crowd funding,' the ability of start-up companies to raise capital from small investors on the Internet.

Steven Rattner

#76. We tend to extrapolate the recent past indefinitely into the future; in the 1970s, investors thought that inflation would never end, whereas now most people think it will never occur again. The first viewpoint was proven wrong within a few years, and the latter viewpoint most likely will be soon.

William J. Bernstein

#77. Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.

Warren Buffett

#78. The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform.

Ron Chernow

#79. You are in the field to defend the public interest, the financial truth for investors and the funds that should support the widow and the orphan.

Clarence W. Barron

#80. Investors must remember that their first job is to preserve their capital. After they've dealt with that, they can approach the second job, seeking a return on that capital.

Irving Kahn

#81. Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.

Barry Ritholtz

#82. You have a class of investors and you have a class of speculators. The speculators historically haven't been big enough to cause the investors to doubt the long-term vision of stock.

Jim Cramer

#83. We have a desperate need for producers in the [commercial Broadway] theatre, and it is very hard for them to get money and find investors for new plays.

Arthur Laurents

#84. Big companies are reliant on institutional investors on a punishing schedule which leads to ruthless behaviour. This form of capitalism with this structure and incentives will never deliver sustainability.

Tim Jackson

#85. The job of the financial journalist was to examine the sharks who created interest crises and speculated away the savings of small investors, to scrutinize company boards with the same merciless zeal.

Stieg Larsson

#86. Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.

Edmund Phelps

#87. The U.S. should take notes: Government overspending and a campaign of alienating investors and small business isn't really the best way to boost the economy or overcome massive unemployment.

Oliver DeMille

#88. Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.

Benjamin Graham

#89. Investors should be cautiously positioned as the global economy and markets face major uncertainties. The downgrade will be a further headwind to growth and job creation in the U.S.

Mohamed El-Erian

#90. The Indian diaspora is not a capital-accumulating diaspora. The Indian diaspora is doctors, lawyers, professors. Or newspaper sellers. They are basically trade- or profession-oriented, and so they're not major investors in their home country.

Jairam Ramesh

#91. The engine driving the Kelly system is the "law of large numbers." In a 1713 treatise on probability, Swiss mathematician Jakob Bernoulli propounded a law that has been misunderstood by gamblers (and investors) ever since.

William Poundstone

#92. The mistakes we make as investors is when the market's going up, we think it's going to go up forever. When the market goes down, we think it's going to go down forever. Neither of those things actually happen. Doesn't do anything forever. It's by the moment.

John C. Bogle

#93. One thing is certain. At some point global investors will lose confidence in our (U.S.) easy dollars and debt-financed prosperity, and then the chickens will come home to roost.

David Stockman

#94. Bootstrapping allows you total creative freedom. For example, if you decide to approach your business in a certain way that makes it a two- or three-year process to get to your first product, you can do that, versus being rushed into it by investors.

Nick Woodman

#95. Fundamentally cheap stocks are often held in low regard by market participants. Something may be tainting their perception in investors' minds.

Kenneth Fisher

#96. A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of great companies with great management at good prices. Only for short term investors and market timers is a correction not an opportunity.

Warren Buffett

#97. I think the tech stock, the public market is still completely traumatized by the dotcom crash. I think the investors and reporters and analysts and everybody is determined to not get taken advantage of again, and that is what everybody who lived through 2000, what they kind of remember.

Marc Andreessen

#98. For investors who do want to speculate in high-yield bonds, one alternative may be a junk bond mutual fund, which can offer investors the relative safety of diversification.

Alex Berenson

#99. We got to know a lot of investors and know what they like and don't like. Through many co-investments opportunities, we have built trust among these investors. So when it came to investing in Xiaomi, things were a lot easier.

Lei Jun

#100. Investors don't care about your dreams and goals. They love that you have them. They love that you are motivated by them. Investors care about how they are going to get their money back and then some. Family cares about your dreams. Investors care about money.

Mark Cuban