Top 98 Time Investing Quotes
#1. Being superficially different is the goal of so many of the products we see ... rather than trying to innovate and genuinely taking the time, investing the resources and caring enough to try and make something better.
Jonathan Ive
#2. You can never go wrong betting on Americans' bad eating habits. So I've made a ton investing in all fast food chains, while at the same time investing in Dockers, spandex, Spanx, and sweatpants. Basically, anything with an elastic waistband is a goldmine.
Carol Leifer
#3. As we say at Year Up all the time, investing in our young people is not just a matter of economic justice. It's good business sense.
Gerald Chertavian
#4. Money is ultimately not enough compensation for investing your time and energy: there has to be a sense of purpose, meaning and fulfillment.
Dan Miller
#5. Value investing requires a great deal of hard work, unusually strict discipline, and a long-term investment horizon. Few are willing and able to devote sufficient time and effort to become value investors, and only a fraction of those have the proper mind-set to succeed.
Seth Klarman
#6. Investing a lot of time and money in external beauty and caring little about internal beauty.
Paulo Coelho
#7. One's knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.
John Maynard Keynes
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. Sorry, investing was pretty boring and I really missed being part of building something. I felt like I was always standing on the sidelines, so Zappos ... really liked the people there and got involved full-time and I've been full-time ever since.
Tony Hsieh
#11. We're non-diversified. We focus. Why not buy more of your best idea rather than your 60th best idea? How many companies can I really know well over time and focus on, on a daily basis?
Bruce Berkowitz
#12. Even defensive portfolios should be changed from time to time, especially if the securities purchased have an apparently excessive advance and can be replaced by issues much more reasonable priced.
Benjamin Graham
#13. Do you have all that you desire? The health, the home, the career or the relationship? Look to where you're investing your time the most, is it dedicated to achieving those desires?
Rob Liano
#14. I think investing in a good education has been key for me, although the investment was more in time than money.
Nouriel Roubini
#15. Wait until companies have an initial prototype, have shown that they have the potential to be profitable and have the ability to scale. That's the best time to invest.
Dave McClure
#16. Success is knowing and doing the will of God. It is investing our time in that which will last for eternity.
Paul Chappell
#17. There are some people who actually enjoy firing. Beware of them. Firing instills a culture of fear that will inevitably fail, and "I'll just fire them" is an excuse for not investing the time to execute the hiring process well.
Eric Schmidt
#18. In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a speculative undertaking.
Seth Klarman
#19. ...I ask myself whether I am investing time, spending time, or just wasting time...but of late I've decided it doesn't matter, for if it feels right...it probably is
Rick Valicenti
#20. high cash compensation teaches workers to claim value from the company as it already exists instead of investing their time to create new value in the future.
Peter Thiel
#21. Money is ultimately never enough compensation for investing one's time and energy. There must be a sense of purpose, meaning, and accomplishment.
Dan Miller
#22. Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies.
Peter Lynch
#23. If given a choice between investing in someone who has read REWORK or has an MBA, I'm investing in REWORK every time. A must read for every entrepreneur.
Mark Cuban
#24. As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.
John Maynard Keynes
#25. Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.
Niklaus Wirth
#26. If you're 35, 45, or even 55 - you have a very long time horizon - 40 years or vastly more. That is you, and/or your spouse, are likely to live about that long, and you'll be investing the whole way.
Kenneth Fisher
#27. It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.
Jane Fonda
#28. Time and space are not conditions of existence, time and space is a model for thinking
Albert Einstein
#29. I started using Twitter about year after its very early adoption and ended up investing in it around that same time. I'm involved with the Tech scene and companies ranging from Facebook, Stumbleupon and Twitter.
Timothy Ferriss
#30. Ben didn't want to lose money. He had had a rough time during the depression.
Walter Schloss
#31. It's in the nature of stock markets to go way down from time to time. There's no system to avoid bad markets. You can't do it unless you try to time the market, which is a seriously dumb thing to do. Conservative investing with steady savings without expecting miracles is the way to go.
Charlie Munger
#32. A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.
Warren Buffett
#33. We live in a time of instant everything, courtesy of the electronic highway. It creates a community of toddlers. When they don't get immediate gratification, they get petulant and sulky.
Faye Kellerman
#34. I used to be a health-care investor a long time ago in the public markets. One thing I learned that we tried to apply here is that investing in small molecules, trying to invest in the next treatment, there's an element of gambling to that.
Bill Maris
#35. 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
#36. The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people!
Babatunde Osotimehin
#37. 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
#38. As a nation, this is the moment to start seriously investing our time, energy and resources into proven methods of reducing violence, both within our nation as well as internationally. The cost of violence to our culture and our children is simply not sustainable.
Joaquin Phoenix
#39. I do a lot of media work, I've been investing and I'm involved with real estate. It's totally different from what I had been doing but I find it challenging and fun. To be honest, I really don't miss the track. I pretty well accomplished what I set out to do and it was time to move on.
Donovan Bailey
#40. In most bull markets there comes a time when the public controls fluctuations and the efforts of the largest operators are insufficient to check the rising tide.
Charles Dow
#41. There is so much more demand for Formula One than it can supply. You have governments investing in circuits all over the world, and the private sector sometimes has a tough time competing with that.
Mario Andretti
#42. Potential stakeholders usually rely upon governance elements prior to investing their time, talent, and/or money.
Robert E. Davis
#43. I have been around a long time and Wall Street has changed a lot.
Walter Schloss
#44. Live every day,
not by spending time,
but by investing all the way.
Debasish Mridha
#45. I'm sort of getting into the idea of nourishing your inner aspect and doing that by investing in your family and making a meal and creating time together.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#46. If you invested in a very low cost index fund - where you don't put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years -you'll do better than 90% of people who start investing at the same time.
Warren Buffett
#47. The early 1990s was a time of great advancements in precooked bacon technology. Pork producers, food labs, and agricultural schools such as Iowa State University began investing substantially in precooked R&D.
David Sax
#48. Every time the U.S. government makes a low-cost loan to someone, it's investing in them.
Elizabeth Warren
#49. I take more jobs when I need more money, if I'm investing in films. I take fewer when I don't. Or if something really good comes along, I usually find a way to do a good job on it in the time that I've got.
John Sayles
#50. Investing in yourself is the best way to utilize time
Sunday Adelaja
#51. 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
#52. Sometimes life simply doesn't work in our favor, for a multitude of reasons. But if we keep investing, with faith, in our future, when the time comes, when the winds blow favorably in our direction, our speed is much faster than normal.
Robin Sacredfire
#53. The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
Carl Honore
#54. If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.
Clayton M Christensen
#55. The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.'
John Templeton
#56. 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
#58. I want to make something I would find joy in consuming. Personally, I enjoy those projects that are worth me investing time and energy and thought into, to find a work that has more to say than will fit in a 4 minute song.
Crowder
#59. Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless.
Warren Buffett
#60. Investing Our Time To EMPOWER Children Today ... Will Make A Better HUMANITY Tomorrow!
Timothy Pina
#61. 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
#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. Investing time in adding value to yourself is the best way to invest time
Sunday Adelaja
#64. The safe time to invest is when there is blood in the streets.
Mark Mobius
#66. I find it more enjoyable investing time doing what pleases me, rather than wasting precious time attempting to please everyone else.
Greg Reid
#67. 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. 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
#70. 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
#71. When investing, more effort means worse results, most of the time.
Robert Rolih
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy.
John Templeton
#75. Things are temporary, relationships last forever. Nothing can replace the time we spend investing in the life of another.
Roy Lessin
#76. "Now you can trade the S&P 500 Index in real time" was the slogan in the newspapers for the first ETF. What kind of nut would do that?
John C. Bogle
#77. If I'm going to make something in the kitchen, even if it's something as simple as a sandwich, I will take the extra time to make it a great sandwich instead of just an average sandwich. I don't mind investing a little extra work to make something special.
Kyle MacLachlan
#78. Stop spending your time; start investing your time.
Al Duncan
#79. In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future.
Bob Riley
#80. If he thought investing his time could help a person, he did it. That to me is what a hero is all about. To me, that's as big a hero as you can be.
Chris Kyle
#81. I've felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll or investing on Wall Street. When economics is taught by pure academics, watch out.
Mark Skousen
#82. Now is the time to scrub ideology out of the energy discussion, so we can make bi-partisan progress towards investing in a shared and better future.
Jay Inslee
#83. If users are not doing what the designer intended (when users are investing time, effort, etc in your product), the designer may be asking them to do too much.
Nir Eyal
#84. 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
#85. Wealth is not attain by the small investment that hits the jackpot,but rather by properly investing in the two biggest assets you have: your time and your desire.
Brian Gotta
#86. Investing the time in climbing, descending, or traversing toward a new perspective is always worthwhile.
Colleen Mariotti
#87. Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.
Bill Ackman
#88. Investing today may well be harder than it has been at any time in our three decades of existence,
Seth Klarman
#89. The main thing during a crisis is discipline, to begin investing in time again after the crisis subsides.
Suleyman Kerimov
#90. When you look at the results on an after-fee, after-tax basis over reasonably long periods of time, there's almost no chance that you end up beating the index fund.
David F. Swensen
#91. Power of compounding is real and is extremely important. If you understand it, you earn it; if not, you pay it. The rule for compounding is simple - the sooner you start investing, the more time your money has to grow.
Jigar Patel
#92. As Buffett has often observed, value investing is not a concept that can be learned and gradually applied over time. It is either absorbed and adopted at once, or it is never truly learned.
Seth Klarman
#93. There is so much to be gained from investing more time in what we eat. Buying fresh ingredients means knowing where your food comes from and what's in it.
Carl Honore
#94. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
Stephen Covey
#95. The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
John Maynard Keynes
#96. For me, being in front of a camera is a matter of practicing and refining your art. I think, if you're telling a story worth telling, it's worth investing the time into developing.
Danny Pino
#97. Until you take time to discover yourself, you never know what you can achieve or how far you can go
Sunday Adelaja
#98. We do not spend a great deal of time talking to management.
Walter Schloss
