Top 56 Value Investing Quotes
#1. Value investing is predicated on the efficient market hypothesis being wrong.
Seth Klarman
#2. 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
#3. It turns out that value investing is something that is in your blood. There are people who just don't have the patience and discipline to do it, and there are people who do. So it leads me to think it's genetic.
Seth Klarman
#4. Warren Buffett has said many times that people either get value investing in five minutes or they won't get it in five years. So, there is something in the human brain, that for some of us, makes all the difference in the world right away and the patience it requires is part of the wiring process.
Mohnish Pabrai
#5. THE BEAUTY OF VALUE INVESTING is its logical simplicity. It is based on two principles: What's it worth (intrinsic value), and don't lose money (margin of safety).
Christopher H. Browne
#6. While some might mistakenly consider value investing a mechanical tool for identifying bargains, it is actually a comprehensive investment philosophy that emphasizes the need to perform in-depth fundamental analysis, pursue long-term investment results, limit risk, and resist crowd psychology.
Seth Klarman
#7. Warren Buffett once wrote that value investing is like an inoculation
it either takes or it doesn't
and when you explain to somebody what it is and how it works and why it works and show them the returns, either they get it or they don't.
Seth Klarman
#8. Value investing is the discipline of buying shares at a significant discount from their current underlying values and holding them until more of their value is realised. The element of a bargain is the key to the process.
Seth Klarman
#9. Most people aren't cut out for value investing, because human nature shrinks from pain,
Jean-Marie Eveillard
#10. The entire pursuit of value investing requires you to see where the crowd is wrong so that you can profit from their misperceptions.
Guy Spier
#13. As former physicist Al Slawsky put it in the early 1990s, "It was a bad year for value investing. In my former life, there was never a 'bad year' for gravity.
Richard R. Lindsey
#15. The whole concept of dividing it up into 'value' and 'growth' strikes me as twaddle. It's convenient for a bunch of pension fund consultants to get fees prattling about and a way for one advisor to distinguish himself from another. But, to me, all intelligent investing is value investing.
Charlie Munger
#16. I find value investing to be a stimulating, intellectually challenging, ever changing, and financially rewarding discipline
Seth Klarman
#17. You're looking for a mispriced gamble. That's what investing is. And you have to know enough to know whether the gamble is mispriced. That's value investing.
Charlie Munger
#18. 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
#19. Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator.
Seth Klarman
#20. The only intelligence investing is value investing ... to acquire more than one is paying for.
Charlie Munger
#21. The most important attribute for success in value investing is patience, patience, and more patience. The majority of investors do not possess this characteristic.
Peter Cundill
#22. Value investing by its very nature is contrarian.
Seth Klarman
#23. 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
#24. Loss of focus is what most worries Charlie and me when we contemplate investing in businesses that in general look outstanding. All too often, we've seen value stagnate in the presence of hubris or of boredom that caused the attention of managers to wander.
Warren Buffett
#25. 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
#26. One of the big problems with growth investing is that we can't estimate earnings very well. I really want to buy growth at value prices. I always look at trailing earnings when I judge stocks.
David Dreman
#27. 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
#29. No economic measure has more value for a nation than investing in a clean & sustainable low carbon future
Phil Harding
#30. If there are not too many value stocks that I can find, the market isn't all that cheap.
Walter Schloss
#31. The value of any investment is, and always must be, a function of the price you pay for it.
Benjamin Graham
#32. To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit
investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm to create wealth and value.
William J. Clinton
#33. There is no such thing as a value trap. There are investing mistakes.
Mohnish Pabrai
#34. Ben was really a contrarian but he didn't use those terms because he was really buying value.
Walter Schloss
#35. You must value the business in order to value the stock.
Charlie Munger
#36. Basically, we try to buy value expressed in the differential between its price and what we think its worth.
Walter Schloss
#37. Since a relationship involves two members investing in it, its value increases twice as fast as one's investment.
Kevin Kelly
#38. Investing is a simple process of taking into account the present value and future value. The other major factor to understand here, is what you lose as a result of inaction. Consider what you can gain and what you can lose in your decision.
J.R. Rim
#39. Understanding the value of a security and whether it's trading above or below that value is the difference between investing and speculating.
Coreen T. Sol
#40. Investing scarce resources in large-scale public projects and capital goods does increase output, but it does not contribute to economic progress if these investments do not produce things people value.
Christopher J. Coyne
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. Price is the most important factor to use in relation to value.
Walter Schloss
#44. Civil war tends to give a helping hand to the velocity of currency, Ukraine can attest to that. However, it is quite an unpleasant way to find the intrinsic value of worthlessness.
Tom Wallace
#45. Before selling, try to re-evaluate the company again and see where the stock sells in realtion to its book value.
Walter Schloss
#46. The secret to investing is to figure out the value of something - and then pay a lot less.
Joel Greenblatt
#47. An investor calculates what a stock is worth, based on the value of its businesses.
Benjamin Graham
#48. Investing time in adding value to yourself is the best way to invest time
Sunday Adelaja
#49. Calculate "owner earnings" to get a true reflection of value.
Warren Buffett
#50. Many stock options in the corporate world have worked in exactly that fashion: they have gained in value simply because management retained earnings, not because it did well with the capital in its hands.
Warren Buffett
#51. The key to investing in yourself is being able to see your potential, not just your actual value. Being able to visualize your value demonstrates that you are already picking up the skills of a 3D thinker.
Farshad Asl
#52. What's in my mind is that I'm investing in people. It might be through a building or a program, but I'm investing in people. And the people that I'm investing in are underprivileged or hold a core value that I believe in.
Daniel A. D'Aniello
#53. We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good.
Warren Buffett
#54. By investing in anonymous
cryptocurrencies, you are buying 'insurance' against a recession, as the value of the cryptocurrency could increase significantly if the economy falters and the black market grows.
Will Martin
#55. When we took Netscape public, if people wanted to invest in the web, that was the only stock that they could do it by investing in. So Netscape's market value was higher than it probably otherwise would have been if there were lots of other ways to play that theme.
Frank Quattrone
#56. The difference between the price we pay for a stock and its liquidation value gives us a margin of safety. This kind of investing is one of the most effective ways of achieving good long term results.
Peter Cundill
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