Successful Investing Quotes

• Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

  Warren Buffett

  Baby, Successful, Investing Money

  "10 billionaires give their best advice on getting - and staying - rich" by Autumn Rose, www.businessinsider.com. April 20, 2016.

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• You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.

  Peter Lynch

  Investing, Investment, Decline

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

  Benjamin Graham

  Successful, Thinking, Investing

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

  Warren Buffett

  Intelligent, Smarter, Investors

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• The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Success, Differences

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• No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.

  Warren Buffett

  Smart, Investing Money, Effort

  Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett (2013). “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)”, p.71, Carolina Academic Press

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• It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

  Warren Buffett

  Funny, Money, Business

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• It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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• In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

  Benjamin Graham

  Running, Business, Intelligent

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.179, Prabhat Prakashan

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• You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

  Warren Buffett

  Baby, Smart, Investing Money

  Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett (2013). “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)”, p.71, Carolina Academic Press

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• Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Business, War

  "The Three Essential Warren Buffett Quotes To Live By" by James Berman, www.forbes.com. April 20, 2014.

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• Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing.

  Warren Buffett

  Ignorance, Littles, Investing

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• Very successful people say no to almost everything.

  Warren Buffett

  Successful, Investment Success, People

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• Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

  Warren Buffett

  Investment Success, Enemy, Looks

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• The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.

  Peter Lynch

  Money, Fear, Real

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Business, War

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• Successful investors tend to be unemotional, allowing the greed and fear of others to play into their hands. By having confidence in their own analysis and judgement, they respond to market forces not with blind emotion but with calculated reason. Successful investors, for example, demonstrate caution in frothy markets and steadfast conviction in panicky ones. Indeed, the very way an investor views the market and it’s price fluctuations is a key factor in his or her ultimate investment success or failure.

  Seth Klarman

  Successful, Keys, Views

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• Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Life, Success, Business

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.19, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

  George Soros

  Reality, Air, Saving

  BuzzFlash interview, February 25, 2004.

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

  John Templeton

  Money, Different, Four

  "The Four Pillars of Investing : Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio". Book by William Bernstein, 2002.

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• Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.

  Benjamin Graham

  Successful, Risk, Investing

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• Successful investing is about having people agree with you ... later.

  James Grant

  Successful, People, Investing

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• 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

  Successful, Views, Investing

  George Soros (1994). “The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market”, p.14, John Wiley & Sons

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• 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

  Money, Business, Successful

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• 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

  Successful, Work Out, Needs

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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