Investing Quotes - Page 32

• I'd love to build a company that will continue to make movies well beyond me someday. And I'd like to help start something great, even investing in it myself.

  Steven Spielberg

  Helping, Someday, Wells

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• An index fund is a fund that simply invests in all of the stocks in a market. So, for example, an index fund might invest in every single stock or almost every single stock in the U.S. market, it might invest in every single stock abroad, or it might invest in all of the bonds that are out there. And you can make a perfectly fine investing portfolio that mixes equal parts of all three of those.

  William J. Bernstein

  Example, Three, Might

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• All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Religious, Men, Political

  Reinhold Niebuhr (1957). “Love and Justice: Selections from the Shorter Writings of Reinhold Niebuhr”, p.59, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes.

  John C. Bogle

  Mistake, Successful, Looks

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• Someone who seeks low-risk investments never really feels investing is safe and someone who is always right eventually winds up wrong

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Wind, Risk, Safe

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• I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.

  Bill Ackman

  Emotional, Decision, Facts

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• The advantage of the free market system is that people invest their capital, they create jobs by investing their capital, and hopefully they get a return on that investment. I don't think there's anything wrong with good old American capitalism.

  Steve Stivers

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  "Exclusive Interview with Steve Stivers, Challenger of OH-15". Interview with Mytheos Holt, www.nationalreview.com. September 9, 2010.

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• That is why success and fruitfulness depend as much upon focusing on the "who" you are as much as the "what" of the work you do. Invest in your character, and it will give you the returns that you are looking for by only investing in the work itself. You can't do the latter without the former.

  Henry Cloud

  Character, Giving, Return

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• Owning the intellectual property is like owning land: You need to keep investing in it again and again to get a payoff; you can't simply sit back and collect rent.

  Esther Dyson

  Land, Intellectual, Needs

  "Intellectual Value" by Esther Dyson, www.wired.com. July 1, 1995.

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• Cryptography [without system integrity] is like investing in an armored car to carry money between a customer living in a cardboard box and a person doing business on a park bench.

  Gene Spafford

  Integrity, Car, Benches

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• Investing is like waiting for paint dry and grass grow so. If you like fun, let handle 800 USD and headed to Las Vegas

  Paul Samuelson

  Fun, Vegas, Waiting

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• The Present is the womb of the future.
  A greater future happiness can be had only by investing in the present correctly.
  Look after the present and the future will look after itself.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Future Happiness, Looks, Womb

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• Ensuring a healthy future means investing in the generation who will carry that future.

  Mal Fletcher

  Mean, Healthy, Generations

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• Speculators are obsessed with predicting: guessing the direction of stock prices. Every morning on cable television, every afternoon on the stock market report, every weekend in Barron's, every week in dozens of market newsletters, and whenever business people get together. In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a purely speculative undertaking.

  Seth Klarman

  Morning, Weekend, Reality

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• As Buffett has often observed, value investing is not a concept that can be learned and gradually applied over time. It is either absorbed and adopted at once, or it is never truly learned.

  Seth Klarman

  Buffett, Adopted, Concepts

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• When government 'creates jobs' by taking money from the private sector and 'investing' in favored projects, it is not truly productive activity. Rather, the government has preempted the economic process, forbidding it to serve consumers so that it can instead serve the objectives of politicians and bureaucrats.

  Sheldon Richman

  Jobs, Government, Politician

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• Investing is the intersection of economics and psychology. The analysis is actually the easy part. The economics, the valuation of the business isn't that hard. The psychology - how much do you buy, do you buy it at this price, do you wait for a lower price, what do you do when it looks like the world might end - those things are harder. Knowing whether you stand there, buy more, or whether something has legitimately gone wrong and you need to sell, those are harder things. That you learn with experience, by having the right psychological makeup.

  Seth Klarman

  Makeup, Knowing, Waiting

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• We are big fans of fear, and in investing it is clearly better to be scared than sorry.

  Seth Klarman

  Sorry, Fans, Scared

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• It is crucial to have a strategy in place before problems hit, precisely because no one can accurately predict the future direction of the stock market or economy. Value investing, the strategy of buying stocks at an appreciable discount from the value of the underlying businesses, is one strategy that provides a road map to successfully navigate not only through good times but also through turmoil.

  Seth Klarman

  Maps, Buying, Good Times

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• Warren Buffett has said many times that people either get value investing in five minutes or they won't get it in five years. So, there is something in the human brain, that for some of us, makes all the difference in the world right away and the patience it requires is part of the wiring process.

  Mohnish Pabrai

  Differences, Years, People

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• The trick in life is not to die. The trick in investing is not to lose.

  Bruce Berkowitz

  Life Is, Tricks, Dies

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• With a profession such as investing, people see the 'doing' as the buying and selling. It is difficult to come home from work, and answer your spouse's question, 'what did you do today?' with 'well, I read a lot, and I talked a little.' If you're not buying or selling, you may feel you aren't doing anything.

  Dave Abrams

  Home, People, Answers

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• I believe the only things that really matter in investing are the bubbles and the busts

  Jeremy Grantham

  Believe, Matter, Bubbles

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• If you own a wonderful business...the best thing to do is keep it. All you're going to do is trade your wonderful business for a whole bunch of cash, which isn't as good as the business, and you got the problem of investing in other businesses, and you probably paid a tax in between. So my advice to anybody who owns a wonderful business is keep it.

  Warren Buffett

  Advice, Cash, Problem

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• Investing is not a natural science but rather a social science. So, it's never purely empirical; what you are trying to do is everything you possibly can to enhance your probabilities of being right more often than being wrong.

  William Browne

  Trying, Natural, Social

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