Investing Quotes

I have $100 billion... You realize I could spend $3 million a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime.

Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

I remember when being liberal meant being generous with your own money.

The Present is the womb of the future. A greater future happiness can be had only by investing in the present correctly. Look after the present and the future will look after itself.

Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense.

Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new. Make it your goal to be better each and every day, in some small way. Remember the Japanese concept of Kaizen. Small daily improvements eventually result in huge advantages.

I’d compare stock pickers to astrologers but I don’t want to bad mouth astrologers.

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.

Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.

Always associate yourself with people who are better than you.

Investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game.

More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don't is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively

All things flow, nothing abides. You cannot step into the same river twice, for the waters are continually flowing on. Nothing is permanent except change.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains.

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

Never invest in a business you can't understand

The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.

Things are temporary, relationships last forever. Nothing can replace the time we spend investing in the life of another.

The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.

In the long run, investing is not about markets at all. Investing is about enjoying the returns earned by businesses.

Bull markets are born on pessimism, grown on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy, and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell.

Don't take action with a trade until the market, itself, confirms your opinion. Being a little late in a trade is insurance that your opinion is correct. In other words, don't be an impatient trader.

Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you've got talents, no one can take them from you.

Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.

When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

The miracle of compounding returns has been overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs.

A prudent speculator never argues with the tape. Markets are never wrong, opinions often are.

The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight.

Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.

I’ve learned many things from him [George Soros], but perhaps the most significant is that it’s not whether you’re right or wrong that’s important, but how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong.

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

Any man who is a bear on the future of this country will go broke.

I have a motto: it's never too late to give up. It's never too late to give up what you are doing, and start doing what you realise you love.

The single greatest edge an investor can have is a long-term orientation.

Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones

The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences of being wrong.