Investing Quotes - Page 10

• People who acquire things beyond their usefulness not only will derive little or no marginal gains from these acquisitions, but they also will experience negative consequences, as with any form of gluttony.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, People, Growth

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• Do not feel bad about your mistakes or those of others. Love them! Remember that one: they are to be expected; two: they're the first and most essential part of the learning process; and three: feeling bad about them will prevent you from getting better.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Mistake, Two

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• One of the best rules anybody can learn about investing is to do nothing, absolutely nothing, unless there is something to do... I just wait until there is money lying in the corner, and all I have to do is go over there and pick it up... I wait for a situation that is like the proverbial "shooting fish in a barrel."

  Jim Rogers

  Lying, Waiting, Shooting

  "Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders". Book by Jack D. Schwager, 1989.

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• When you build a bridge, you insist that it can carry 30,000 pounds, but you only drive 10,000-pound trucks across it. And that same principle works in investing.

  Warren Buffett

  Bridges, Principles, Pounds

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.231, John Wiley & Sons

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• Expertise is great, but it has a bad side effect: It tends to create the inability to accept new ideas.

  Dean Williams

  Ideas, Sides, Inability

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• First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots.

  Warren Buffett

  Firsts, Idiot, Innovators

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• No statement is more true and better applicable to Wall Street than the famous warning of Santayana: "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it".

  Benjamin Graham

  Wall, Past, Warning

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• In an ideal world, the intelligent investor would hold stocks only when they are cheap and sell them when they become overpriced, then duck into the bunker of bonds and cash until stocks again become cheap enough to buy.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Ducks, World

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• Mr. Market does not always price stocks the way an appraiser or a private buyer would value a business. Instead, when stocks are going up, he happily pays more than their objective value; and, when they are going down, he is desperate to dump them for less than their true worth.

  Benjamin Graham

  Doe, Pay, Way

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• Mr. Market's job is to provide you with prices; your job is to decide whether it is to your advantage to act on them. You no not have to trade with hime just because he constantly begs you to.

  Benjamin Graham

  Jobs, Advantage, Trade

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• You can be sure that over the next 10 years, you'll see something that you did not think was possible.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Years, Next

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• It was probably a mistake to allow gold to rise so high.

  Paul Volcker

  Mistake, Gold

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• The good news in investing is there are no HR problems. If there are no humans, there are no problems!

  Mohnish Pabrai

  News, Problem, Humans

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• Try to buy assets at a discount than to buy earnings.

  Walter Schloss

  Trying, Earning, Assets

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• Stop spending your time; start investing your time.

  Al Duncan

  Achievement, Investing Your Time, Spending

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• Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

  Bill Gates

  Writing, Skills, People

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• When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

  Warren Buffett

  Ignorance, Investing Money, Interesting

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• If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

  John Templeton

  Inspirational, Humble, Optimistic

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• Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, War, Opportunity

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• Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon

  Peter Lynch

  Ideas, Saving, Investment

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• People who look for easy money invariable pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this earth.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  People, Looks, Earth

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• If given a choice between investing in someone who has read REWORK or has an MBA, I’m investing in REWORK every time. A must read for every entrepreneur.

  Mark Cuban

  Mba, Choices, Entrepreneur

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• The person that is buying a share of stock is convinced he knows something that the other person who's selling it to him does not know. There's no zero sum game in Wall Street.

  Bernard Madoff

  Zero, Wall, Games

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• Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well.

  Warren Buffett

  People, Investing Your Time, Buffets

  "The Investor Trait and How Buffett Would Find, Analyze and Value Stocks". Article by Jae Jun, www.oldschoolvalue.com. July 27, 2015.

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

  Warren Buffett

  Nonsense

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