Investing Quotes

• Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

  Warren Buffett

  Money, Business, Dollars

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

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

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Realist, Pessimist

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.13, Harper Collins

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

  Benjamin Graham

  Successful, Risk, Avoiding

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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, Successful Investing, Smarter

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• Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Happiness, Goal, World

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• Anyone who is not investing now is missing a tremendous opportunity.

  Carlos Slim

  Opportunity, Missing

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• Investing is simple, but not easy.

  Warren Buffett

  Money, Simple, Easy

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• There are two kinds of people who lose money: those who know nothing and those who know everything.

  Henry Kaufman

  Two, People, Kind

  "Occupy hedge funds: when private investment funds and the public collide" by Helaine Olen, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2013.

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• The secret to investing is to figure out the value of something - and then pay a lot less.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Secret, Pay, Figures

  Joel Greenblatt (2011). “The Big Secret for the Small Investor: A New Route to Long-Term Investment Success”, p.20, John Wiley & Sons

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• 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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• If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.

  Dick Vermeil

  Inspirational, Sports, Hurt

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• People don't like the idea of thinking long term. Many are desperately seeking short term answers because they have money problems to be solved today.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Thinking, Ideas, Long

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• The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.

  Francois Guizot

  World, Pessimist, Optimist

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• I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Business, Investing Money

  "Warren Buffett hauled before US financial crisis commission" by Graeme Wearden, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2010.

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• Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future.

  Warren Buffett

  More Money

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• Remember that the stock market is manic-depressive.

  Warren Buffett

  Remember, Depressive, Manic

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• There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Two, Kind, Knows

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• Focus on return on equity, not earnings per share.

  Warren Buffett

  Focus, Earning, Return

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• Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new.

  Bob Parsons

  Kaizen, Something New, Improving

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• Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

  Paul Samuelson

  Money, Vegas, Saving

  "Paul Samuelson's Words of Wisdom" by Larry Swedroe, www.cbsnews.com. December 17, 2009.

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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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• The sillier the market's behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor.

  Benjamin Graham

  Opportunity, Behavior, Greater

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Most successful investors, in fact, do nothing most of the time.

  Jim Rogers

  Funny, Success, Humorous

  Jim Rogers (2013). “Street Smarts: Adventures on the Road and in the Markets”, p.58, Crown Business

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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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