Successful Investing Quotes

#1. Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

John Maynard Keynes

#2. Taking this view, it is possible to see financial markets as a laboratory for testing hypotheses, albeit not strictly scientific ones. The truth is, successful investing is a kind of alchemy.

George Soros

#3. Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing.

J. Paul Getty

#4. Successful investing is about owning businesses and reaping the huge rewards provided by the dividends and earnings growth of our nation's - and, for that matter, the world's - corporations.

John C. Bogle

#5. 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

#6. One of the greatest deterrents to successful investing is the three-letter word ego.

Venita VanCaspel

#7. Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes.

John C. Bogle

#8. Successful investing professionals are disciplined and consistent and they think a great deal about what they do and how they do it.

Benjamin Graham

#9. Successful investing is about having people agree with you ... later.

James Grant

#10. A Georgia peach, a real Georgia peach, a backyard great-grandmother's orchard peach, is as thickly furred as a sweater, and so fluent and sweet that once you bite through the flannel, it brings tears to your eyes.

Melissa Fay Greene

#11. The Republic doesn't exist out here. We must survive on our own.

Shmi Skywalker

#12. I was going to go to school to become a neurological surgeon.

Angel Haze

#13. Indexing is a successful approach to investing not because it's simple, but because it has performed so much better than the average active manager (the opposite of indexing), and the simplicity is just an added bonus.

Patrick Geddes

#14. The successful investor is usually an individual who is inherently interested in business problems.

Philip Arthur Fisher

#15. In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.

John Maynard Keynes

#16. St. Paul's Chapel stands - without so much as a broken window. Little miracle.

Rudy Giuliani

#17. His eyes took in the details of my body with a conflicted gaze that I knew well: even having seen all the facts of the case, he still wanted me. He wanted me despite knowing what that meant about him.

Alissa Nutting

#18. Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.

Andrew Solomon

#19. When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: 'we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year.

Warren Buffett

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

Merton Miller

#21. It was for the best," she said gently. "I wanted no beauty. I needed no more beauty." "I

Tillie Cole

#22. Successful contrarian investing requires us to live with discomfort, for being "wrong" and alone. But bargains do not exist in the absence of fear.

Robert D. Arnott

#23. I think it's fair to say that the Nobel Prize is the highest honor any scientist or artist can achieve.

John O'Keefe

#24. This is why a venture capitalist will always follow the maxim of investing in the team, not the plan. Since the plan is wrong, the people have to be right. Successful teams spot the flaws in their plan and adjust. So

Eric Schmidt

#25. In order to be a successful Investor you have to think positive, believe in yourself, and never give up!

Monica Breckenridge

#26. Our marketable equities tell us by their operating results - not by their daily, or even yearly, price quotations - whether our investments are successful. The market may ignore business success for a while, but eventually will confirm it.

Warren Buffett

#27. We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

Warren Buffett

#28. The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.'

John Templeton

#29. 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.

#30. Many years ago there lived a man called Laurids Madsen who went up to heaven and came down again thanks to his boots.

Carsten Jensen