Quotes About Investors

#1. Most investors, both institutional and individual, will find that the best way to own common stocks (shares') is through an index fund that charges minimal fees. Those following this path are sure to beat the net results (after fees and expenses) of the great majority of investment professionals.

Warren Buffett

#2. I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.

Yuri Milner

#3. The centerpiece of Obamanomics - raising taxes on high earners and investors and lowering them on the middle class - is attacked by free-marketers for penalizing economic success and possibly further stalling economic growth.

Nina Easton

#4. Numerous studies, and my own experience as a serial entrepreneur, have proven that companies with a diverse management team provide greater financial returns to investors.

Jay Samit

#5. To investors, job creation is a second-order effect. Market participants care first about interest rates, exchange rates, bond prices and the one great factor that affects all three: the long-term solvency of a bond company called the U.S. government.

Amity Shlaes

#6. Of course. I favor passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.

Merton Miller

#7. Beware angel investors: they can be disruptive.

Mitch Kapor

#8. If you don't have savings, and your co-founders are as poor as you are, and if Mom and Dad won't loan you money, then your best bet is to find people that know you - your friends. If they, too, won't help, then you're stuck seeking out angel investors.

Vivek Wadhwa

#9. Simply put, investors should own less equities, more bonds, more global investments, more cash and more dry ammunition.

Mohamed El-Erian

#10. (It's easier for investors and bosses to spend time and money going after a proven market, even though proven markets are the hardest to break into.)

Seth Godin

#11. Most investors want to do today what they should have done yesterday.

Lawrence Summers

#12. Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow.

Andy Grove

#13. Many U.S. investors are already investing overseas rather than at home.

Robert Kiyosaki

#14. Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

Warren Buffett

#15. So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. They are momentum investors purchasing highly illiquid investments. That is a recipe for disaster.

Fred Wilson

#16. This is our 40th year in business. We don't have a single penny from outside investors, and we never borrowed heavily from the banks. We have a healthy balance sheet and more credit than we can use.

Andrew Cherng

#17. It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.

Ben Casnocha

#18. Respect public investors and treat them as partners and important constituents.

Frank Quattrone

#19. Investors tend to discover 'hot' mutual fund managers just after a successful run and just before the inescapable force of mean reversion is about to kick in.

Barry Ritholtz

#20. If all of us work in accordance with rule of law, if rule of law is implemented, we are all safe, investors are safe, people will be safe.

Veerappa Moily

#21. My view is that one should diversify broadly across different fund investments. However, it's tough for investors to try to pick the appropriate risk level that they should manage their funds at. Having a personal adviser would be helpful.

Myron Scholes

#22. Lesson No. 12: Choose your investors wisely as they can offer more than just funding.

George Ilian

#23. 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

#24. Expensive, well-executed, and familiar ads convince the investors, as nothing in the black and white tables of assets and debits can, that the company is important and prosperous.

Michael Schudson

#25. Investors covet past improvements but also always believe pricing unimaginable future creativity and efficiency gains is Pollyannaish. And they're always wrong. Bet on it.

Kenneth Fisher

#26. Despite what some investors say, older age is an advantage in the startup world. You know more about industries and markets, and have ideas for products that the world actually needs and a better ability to motivate and manage than a kid out of school does.

Vivek Wadhwa

#27. When investors, particularly investment bankers, talk about splitting up companies, there's a lot of discussion about multiple expansion, and the reality is multiple expansion is an outcome, not a strategy.

Irene Rosenfeld

#28. Investors operate with limited funds and intelligence, they do not need to know everything. As long as they understand something better than others, they have an edge ...

George Soros

#29. A hedge fund manager whose clients demand monthly performance reports has different needs than any individual investors with a 20-year time horizon. The needs of that long-term investor differ markedly from someone who is retiring in three years.

Barry Ritholtz

#30. Bond investors are the vampires of the investment world. They love decay, recession - anything that leads to low inflation and the protection of the real value of their loans.

Bill Gross

#31. The lower spreads mean lower costs for investors, because Nasdaq investors generally do not trade directly with one another. Instead, they usually buy and sell from market-makers, brokerage firms that flip shares between buyers and sellers and keep the spread for themselves.

Alex Berenson

#32. I believe that the market is slowly waking up to the fact that the Federal Reserve is a clueless organization. They have no idea what they're doing. And so the confidence level of investors is diminishing, in my view.

Marc Faber

#33. As a whole, investors should welcome attempts to safeguard the integrity of markets. You need very clear rules applied to markets.

Mohamed El-Erian

#34. Right now the long-term investors are telling us that they're not as concerned about inflation and so we're seeing these rates now move into the marketplace and out to the street - rates that individuals can get.

Franklin Raines

#35. One of the greatest investments of our lifetime has been New York City real estate, and investors made the highest returns when they bought stuff during the 1970s and 1980s when people were getting mugged. The lesson is that you make the most money when you buy stuff that's out of consensus.

Mary Meeker

#36. Because we weren't having success finding a CEO, our investors insisted that we hire these managers a temporary CEO and CFO. That didn't go great.

Tim Brady

#37. It's nice to do an IPO where your investors get value straightaway and the share price pops up; it proves you left something on the table for them.

Ivan Glasenberg

#38. The most popular systems are those that apply a disciplined systematic technique, .. The hardest part for investors is finding a system that fits their lifestyle, and that is a critically important component.

William McKinley

#39. If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative that boards of directors be so constituted as to adequately represent the interests and inspire the complete confidence of investors of moderate substance.

B.C. Forbes

#40. To get our economy back on track and keep it functioning properly without the problems of our financial institutions, we need reasonable regulations that will protect Main Street while at the same time allow Wall Street to do what it does best - make money for American investors.

Marsha Blackburn

#41. Financial Security is not enough money to buy toys. That is to learn to live with less money than you earn. So, you can help other individuals or investors. You are not a winner until done it

Dave Ramsey

#42. Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.

Ann Macbeth

#43. In a certain way working in animation has become very democratic because now anyone with the right technology can at least prepare a project from home in order to attract investors. Some people can even set up a small home studio and start working.

Raul Garcia

#44. It's a funny thing, by the way, how people who love free markets are also quite sure that they know that investors are being irrational.

Paul Krugman

#45. A stock market decline is as routine as a January blizzard in Colorado. If you're prepared, it can't hurt you. A decline is a great opportunity to pick up the bargains left behind by investors who are fleeing the storm in panic.

Peter Lynch

#46. At the first rumors of war, timid investors in various government stock, being panic-stricken, sell out, to their loss and the gamblers' gain.

Randal Cremer

#47. Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.

Palmer Luckey

#48. Because investors are not usually penalized for adhering to conventional practices, doing so is the less professionally risky strategy, even though it virtually guarantees against superior performance.

Seth Klarman

#49. Here's what you should say [to an investor]: 'this is what my company does' It's that simple. What you're trying to do is get potential investors to fantasize about how your product or service will make a boatload of money. They can't fantasize if they don't know what you do.

Guy Kawasaki

#50. Investors have been too willing to buy stocks with strong reported earnings, even if they do not understand how the earnings are produced.

Alex Berenson

#51. The unhappy theory of business ethics is this: you have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit. Period. To do anything other than that is to cheat your investors. And in a competitive world, you don't have much wiggle room here.

Seth Godin

#52. Enron had already collapsed and filed for bankruptcy protection by the beginning of 2002. But despite complaints from short sellers that corporations had used accounting gimmickry to inflate their profits, many investors thought the crisis at Enron was an isolated case.

Alex Berenson

#53. Ultimately, nothing should be more important to investors than the ability to sleep soundly at night.

Seth Klarman

#54. Timidity prompted by past failures causes investors to miss the most important bull markets.

Walter Schloss

#55. Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.

Barry Ritholtz

#56. While good business ideas are plentiful, many entrepreneurs struggle to understand payroll taxes, health care and other thorny issues ... In other words, they don't have the financial literacy to scale their businesses and attract investors.

Daymond John

#57. When herding behaviour among investors ramps up, a stock's or index's growth rate can increase faster than exponentially, leading to more herding. This positive feedback brings the system to a tipping point. About two-thirds of the time, a crash results.

Didier Sornette

#58. For investors, the thesis is a Silicon Valley adage: Get millions of people to use the service first, and eventually it will find a way to make money.

Anonymous

#59. By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.

Warren Buffett

#60. You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.

Stephen Sondheim

#61. The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes them trend followers by definition.

George Soros

#62. The need for empowering investors to have information on the way their own money is invested is not going away.

Donald Luskin

#63. While U.K. is one of India's most important trade and investment partners, India has become one of the largest investors in the U.K.

Preneet Kaur

#64. Before Volcker's speech, bonds had been conservative investments, into which investors put their savings when they didn't fancy a gamble in the stock market. After Volcker's speech, bonds became objects of speculation, a means of creating wealth rather than merely storing it.

Michael Lewis

#65. Investors have very short memories

Roman Abramovich

#66. This presentation was truly a testament to the epic magnitude of getting into Thomas Treadwell's class. This exercise was pointedly not some theoretical simulation dreamed up by an academic with no real-world experience. We were presenting our ideas to real venture capitalists and angel investors.

Mitty Walters

#67. Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes?

Mohamed El-Erian

#68. Most investors give too much credence to the theory that prices are rational; they presume that a market collapse must have been justified by serious economic trouble.

Kenneth Fisher

#69. Armed with an awareness of how investors value intangibles,

Brian E. Becker

#70. My biggest prediction for the future is that people are going to start looking after individual investors.

John C. Bogle

#71. I find the parallels between how some investors refuse to recognise the trends and our reaction to some of our environmental challenges very powerful. There is an unwillingness to process unpleasant data.

Jeremy Grantham

#72. I think the value of venues like CNBC is that they give investors an opportunity to reevaluate the situation minute by minute, but maybe we don't need to follow the market so closely.

Maria Bartiromo

#73. Our purpose, as we face these challenges, remains clear - fair and orderly markets that allow for efficient capital formation, while protecting the interests of investors.

Arthur Levitt

#74. In the 1950s and 1960s, the heroes were the long-term investors; today the heroes are the wise guys.

Michael Steinhardt

#75. To me 'The Big Easy' is shorthand for owning big stocks that are easy for wary investors to buy into. These stocks tend to outperform during the back half of bull markets.

Kenneth Fisher

#76. Most investors would be better off in an index fund.

Peter Lynch

#77. Celtel established a mobile phone network in Africa at a time when investors told me that there was no market for mobile phones there.

Mo Ibrahim

#78. ... investors are constitutionally averse to buying into a troubled situation.

Benjamin Graham

#79. Publicly traded United States companies report sales and profits to investors every quarter.

Alex Berenson

#80. Risk managers and investment bankers and actually, all kinds of investors took on more risk than they expected. So there was a failure of risk management. There was a failure to recognize how much risk there was in some of these securities that people bought.

Robert F. Engle

#81. Foreign investors are looking for a consistent and stable policy in India.

Uday Kotak

#82. While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise.

Maria Bartiromo

#83. The reality is that SXSW is packed with brilliant entrepreneurs, investors and partners. They're everywhere, zipping back and forth like thousands of atoms. Your chances of colliding with one actually improve just by standing still.

Ryan Holmes

#84. Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong time.

David Dreman

#85. Employees pay the highest percentage of taxes. Big business and investors pay the least.

Robert Kiyosaki

#86. Political elites look increasingly interchangeable: Blair, Brown, and Cameron have all tried to provide cover for the surrender of sovereignty to foreign investors with invocations of 'British' values, and, more opportunistically, anti-immigrant rhetoric.

Pankaj Mishra

#87. Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies.

Daniel Yergin

#88. Most investors are primarily oriented toward return, how much they can make and pay little attention to risk, how much they can lose.

Seth Klarman

#89. [When] the market is trying to get to terms with, first, lower global growth, particularly out of emerging markets and China. And, second, the market is worried the central banks have run out of ammunition. So put these two things together, and then investors are repricing the market lower.

Mohamed El-Erian

#90. term gains and all short term capital gains are taxable to investors. Please refer to the Taxation - Capital gain for more details.

Jigar Patel

#91. I love what I do. I don't do it for the money. I work on behalf of investors that I like and want to do well for. I'm a competitive person.

Bill Ackman

#92. Amazon is actually like Google and Facebook. Just another source to collect information for Governments, CIA and Private Investors.

Daniel Marques

#93. Competition among investors leads to a situation in which knowledge in the public domain can't lead to above-average investment returns.

Carl Futia

#94. It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.

Barry Ritholtz

#95. Most investors are obsessed with the market size today and they don't think about how the market is going to evolve.

Sam Altman

#96. For all long-term investors, there is only one objective-maximum total real return after taxes.

John Templeton

#97. There won't be one, single global market. But there will be global investors.

Kenneth C. Griffin

#98. There are no bad business and investment opportunities, but there are bad entrepreneurs and investors.

Robert Kiyosaki

#99. You had a lot of novice investors who got into the market looking for easy money, without any regard to the fundamentals. These stocks were running on fumes.

Bernard Madoff

#100. Investors are always biased to invest in things they themselves understand. So venture capitalists like Uber because they like driving in black town cars. They don't like Airbnb because they like staying in five-star hotels, not sleeping on people's couches.

Peter Thiel