Buying Stocks Quotes

• If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Advice, Experts, Would Be

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• I presumably lost $150,000 in the depression of 1937—on my one stock investment—because I did everything Lehman Brothers told me. I said, well, this is a fool’s procedure . . . buying stock in other people’s businesses.

  Studs Terkel

  Brother, People, Buying

  Studs Terkel (2013). “Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression”, p.83, The New Press

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• The worst thing you can do is invest in companies you know nothing about. Unfortunately, buying stocks on ignorance is still a popular American pastime.

  Peter Lynch

  Ignorance, Investing, Buying

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• The American economy is going to do fine. But it won't do fine every year and every week and every month. I mean, if you don't believe that, forget about buying stocks anyway... It's a positive-sum game, long term. And the only way an investor can get killed is by high fees or by trying to outsmart the market.

  Warren Buffett

  Believe, Mean, Years

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• Cash - in savings accounts, short-term CDs or money market deposits - is great for an emergency fund. But to fulfill a long-term investment goal like funding your retirement, consider buying stocks. The more distant your financial target, the longer inflation will gnaw at the purchasing power of your money.

  Suze Orman

  Retirement, Cds, Goal

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• The investor is neither smart not richer when he buys in an advancing market and the market continues to rise. That is true even when he cashes in a goodly profit, unless either (a) he is definitely through with buying stocks an unlikely story or (b) he is determined to reinvest only at considerably lower levels. In a continuous program no market profit is fully realized until the later reinvestment has actually taken place, and the true measure of the trading profit is the difference between the previous selling level and the new buying level.

  Benjamin Graham

  Smart, Taken, Differences

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• In the summer of 1990, I was buying stocks and I was probably three or four months early there. But we had a great rally in 1991.

  Peter Lynch

  Summer, Three, Four

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• Buying stock is exactly the same thing as going to a casino, only with no cocktail service.

  Ted Allen

  Gambling, Casinos, Cocktails

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• The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do, deserve to lose money.

  Jim Cramer

  People, Buying, Knows

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• We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

  Rand Paul

  Government, Buying, Financial

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• It is crucial to have a strategy in place before problems hit, precisely because no one can accurately predict the future direction of the stock market or economy. Value investing, the strategy of buying stocks at an appreciable discount from the value of the underlying businesses, is one strategy that provides a road map to successfully navigate not only through good times but also through turmoil.

  Seth Klarman

  Investing, Maps, Buying

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