Investing Quotes - Page 12

• The idea of excessive diversification is madness. Wide diversification, which necessarily includes investment in mediocre businesses, only guarantees ordinary results.

  Charlie Munger

  Ideas, Ordinary, Guarantees

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• Timing is everything in this markets.

  Daniel S. Loeb

  Timing, Financial, Timing Is Everything

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• A true luxury is a reward for investing in and developing a real asset.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Real, Luxury, Rewards

  Robert Kiyosaki (2015). “Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!”, p.115, Robert Kiyosaki

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• Money is ultimately not enough compensation for investing your time and energy: there has to be a sense of purpose, meaning and fulfillment.

  Dan Miller

  Energy, Investing Your Time, Purpose

  Dan Miller (2007). “48 Days to the Work You Love”, p.87, B&H Publishing Group

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• Assuming that the future is like the past, you can outperform 80 percent of your fellow investors over the next several decades by investing in an index fund-and doing nothing else. But acquire the discipline to do something even better: become a long-term index fund investor.

  Mark Hulbert

  Past, Discipline, Long

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• The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in futility).

  George Soros

  Real, Exercise, World

  George Soros (1994). “The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market”, p.20, John Wiley & Sons

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• Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Giving, Way, Should

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.26, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Long-term investing has gotten so popular, it's easier to admit you're a crack addict than to admit you're a short-term investor.

  Peter Lynch

  Long, Cracks, Easier

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• The first rule (of investing) for me is don't have rules. You find one amazing investment and that's all that matters. If you pick the right body of water, you might not need a boat.

  Mark Pincus

  Water, Needs, Body

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• The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you'll be.

  Ray Dalio

  Thinking, Closed Minded, You Think You Know

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• Sunshine is the best disinfectant

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Sunshine

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• Parents deserve the peace of mind of knowing their children are in good hands. By investing in early childhood educators, we are supporting nurturing child care environments where children can thrive.

  Kathleen Wynne

  Education, Children, Gay

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• There is no such thing as a value trap. There are investing mistakes.

  Mohnish Pabrai

  Mistake, Traps, Values

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• Famed value investor Guy Spier has managed to write what is both a gripping memoir and a fascinating study of what it takes to succeed in investing and life. A must read!

  John Mihaljevic

  Writing, Guy, Succeed

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• The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people!

  Babatunde Osotimehin

  Lakes, Years, People

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• The only product that's worth investing in is a fully functional musculoskeletal system. It's no luxury but rather a basic necessity that's within everyone's reach.

  Pete Egoscue

  Luxury, Products

  Pete Egoscue, Roger Gittines (2014). “Pain Free: A Revolutionary Method for Stopping Chronic Pain”, p.17, Bantam

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• Patience is one of the most valuable attributes in investing.

  Martin Zweig

  Attributes, Valuable

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• Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Men, Optimism, Small Man

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.122, New Directions Publishing

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• I advise women to invest in real estate. It is the collateral to be preferred above all others, and the safest means of investing money.

  Hetty Green

  Real, Mean, Investing Money

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• To offer women something that feels more about investing in something and less about being disposable is a complete corrective to the world we live in

  Phoebe Philo

  World, Feels, Offers

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• Many the wonders but nothing walks stranger than man.

  Sophocles

  Men, Wonder, Stranger

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Sophocles”

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• The price pattern reminds you that every movement of importance is but a repetition of similar price movements, that just as soon as you can familiarize yourself with the actions of the past, you will be able to anticipate and act correctly and profitably upon forthcoming movements.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Past, Movement, Patterns

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• Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Lying, Humorous

  The Autobiography of Mark Twain Chapter 29

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• While many applauded Oprah for opening her heart to young girls in South Africa, some criticized her for not investing in the youth of America.

  Kitty Kelley

  Girl, Heart, America

  "No Oprah in the Billionaire Club" by Kitty Kelley, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 6, 2010.

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• I take more jobs when I need more money, if I'm investing in films. I take fewer when I don't. Or if something really good comes along, I usually find a way to do a good job on it in the time that I've got.

  John Sayles

  Jobs, Needs, Way

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