Financial Investment Quotes

• 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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• In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Insperational, Mirrors

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• An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Encouraging, Education, Money

  Jack Vincent, Benjamin Franklin (2010). “Benjamin Franklin's the Way to Wealth”, p.91, The Way to Wealth

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• When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• Financial peace isn't the acquisition of stuff. It's learning to live on less than you make, so you can give money back and have money to invest. You can't win until you do this.

  Dave Ramsey

  Money, Powerful, Winning

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• How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.

  Robert G. Allen

  Money, Investing Your Time, Saving

  Robert G. Allen (2006). “Creating Wealth: Retire in Ten Years Using Allen's Seven Principles of Wealth”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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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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• You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investment Success, Games

  "Warren Buffett Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Investor". Book by Janet Lowe, 1997.

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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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• 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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• It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, War, Investing Money

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.150, John Wiley & Sons

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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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• Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

  Warren Buffett

  Funny, Success, Money

  "Rules That Warren Buffett Lives By". Yahoo Finance, February 23, 2010.

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• Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.

  Jim Rogers

  Investing Money, Years, Active Management

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• Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

  Warren Buffett

  Wall, Investing Money, People

  "Student to CEO" by Simon Dixon. Ecademy Press, p. 125, 2011.

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• Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.

  Peter Lynch

  Intelligent, Investing, Tickets

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• Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.

  Ingvar Kamprad

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Mistake

  "The Testament of a Furniture Dealer". Book by Ingvar Kamprad, 1976.

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• An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

  Warren Buffett

  Success, Money, Fear

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.166, John Wiley & Sons

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• I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.

  Peter Lynch

  Real, Thinking, Investing

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• I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

  Warren Buffett

  Money, Years, Greatest Wealth

  "The Big Lie Exposed: The Future is Not Predictable" by Jeff Schweitzer, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2009.

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• If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, War, Doe

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• When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investing, Market Risk

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.151, John Wiley & Sons

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• People align with movements they can believe in, and it is the human, intellectual, and financial investment in genuine content that defines experiences.

  Brian Solis

  Believe, People, Intellectual

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