Investing Quotes - Page 3

• Lethargy, bordering on sloth should remain the cornerstone of an investment style.

  Warren Buffett

  Style, Sloth, Investment

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• If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Shopping, Way

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• In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard.

  Warren Buffett

  Baseball, Running, Watches

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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, Tickets, Forget

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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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• As long as you enjoy investing, you'll be willing to do the homework and stay in the game. That's why I try to make the show so entertaining, because if you aren't interested, you'll either miss the opportunity to make money in the market or not pay enough attention and end up losing your shirt.

  Jim Cramer

  Money, Opportunity, Games

  "Mad Money". Book by Jim Cramer, www.today.com. March 14, 2005.

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• As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Believe, Thinking, Goes On

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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, Reason Why

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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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• Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Money, Investment, Traders

  Forbes v. 151, iss. 4, (p. 236), 1993.

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• It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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• Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Business, Yield, Psychology

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

  Warren Buffett

  Business, War, Doe

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• Traditionally the investor has been the man with patience and the courage of his convictions who would buy when the harried or disheartened speculator was selling.

  Benjamin Graham

  Men, Selling, He Man

  Benjamin Graham, David Dodd (2008). “Security Analysis: Sixth Edition, Foreword by Warren Buffett”, p.35, McGraw Hill Professional

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• The hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe.

  George Soros

  Judging, Risk, Levels

  George Soros (1994). “The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market”, p.15, John Wiley & Sons

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• Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

  Peter Lynch

  Running, Business, Intelligent

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• The intelligent investor gets interested in big growth stocks not when they are at their most popular - but when something goes wrong.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Growth, Bigs

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• Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.

  Warren Buffett

  People, Intelligence, Ordinary

  "Homespun Wisdom from the 'Oracle of Omaha'" by Amy Stone, BusinessWeek, June 05, 1999.

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• There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Nature, War

  "The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville". Essay by Warren Buffett published in Hermes, the Columbia Business School Magazine (1984), later quoted in "31 years ago, Warren Buffett revealed the secret to investing and correctly predicted nobody would listen" by Myles Udland, www.businessinsider.com. August 24, 2015.

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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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• Our favorite holding period is forever.

  Warren Buffett

  Funny Inspirational, Business, War

  Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett (2013). “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)”, p.63, Carolina Academic Press

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• I do not like debt and do not like to invest in companies that have too much debt, particularly long-term debt. With long-term debt, increases in interest rates can drastically affect company profits and make future cash flows less predictable.

  Warren Buffett

  Cash Flow, Long, Too Much

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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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• The goal of a successful trader is to make the best trades. Money is secondary.

  Alexander Elder

  Success, Money, Goal

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• Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

  Warren Buffett

  Success, Business, Intelligent

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