Investing Quotes - Page 5

• If you are not willing to own a stock for 10 years, do not even think about owning it for 10 minutes.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Intelligent, Years

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• Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Wise, Successful, Anticipation

  "Isms" by Gregory Bergman, (p. 105), 2006.

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• The best kept secret in the investing world: Almost nothing turns out as expected.

  Harry Browne

  Best Kept Secrets, World, Turns

  Harry Browne (1999). “Fail-Safe Investing: Lifelong Financial Security in 30 Minutes”, p.145, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.

  Charlie Munger

  Jobs, Intelligent, World

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• Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages.

  Warren Buffett

  Average, Years, Focus

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• When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: 'we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year.

  Warren Buffett

  Successful, Years, Annual Reports

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• The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.

  George Soros

  Ideas, Way, Different

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• A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, War, Generosity

  "7 insightful investing quotes from Warren Buffett", vintagevalueinvesting.com. September 28, 2017.

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• The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage.

  Warren Buffett

  Keys, Durability, Advantage

  Warren Buffett's remarks at Herb Allen's Sun Valley in Idaho Retreat, July 1999.

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• Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies.

  Peter Lynch

  Your Side, Sides, Share

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

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• So this is the goal: To make money by increasing net profit, while simultaneously increasing return on investment, and simultaneously increasing cash flow.

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt

  Money, Business, Cash Flow

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox (2016). “The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement”, p.53, Routledge

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• There's no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or worse, to buy more of it when the fundamentals are deteriorating.

  Peter Lynch

  Doe, Fundamentals, Losing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• The advice "you never go broke taking a profit" is foolish.

  Warren Buffett

  Advice, Foolish, Broke

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• The difference between the price we pay for a stock and its liquidation value gives us a margin of safety. This kind of investing is one of the most effective ways of achieving good long term results.

  Peter Cundill

  Differences, Long, Safety

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• While some might mistakenly consider value investing a mechanical tool for identifying bargains, it is actually a comprehensive investment philosophy that emphasizes the need to perform in-depth fundamental analysis, pursue long-term investment results, limit risk, and resist crowd psychology.

  Seth Klarman

  Philosophy, Intelligent, Long

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• Picking the right stocks is one of the hardest parts of investing, and every night on Mad Money, I try to take some of that burden off your shoulders.

  Jim Cramer

  Money, Night, Mad

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

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• In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: 'This too will pass.'

  Benjamin Graham

  Wise, Men, Phrases

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• Our future rates of gain will fall far short of those achieved in the past. Berkshire's capital base is now simply too large to allow us to earn truly outsized returns. If you believe otherwise, you should consider a career in sales but avoid one in mathematics.

  Warren Buffett

  Believe, Fall, Past

  Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman's Letter, 1998.

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• It just seems logical that sticking to investing in only a small number of companies that you understand well, rather than moving down the list to your thirtieth or fiftieth favorite pick, would create a much greater potential to earn above-average investment returns.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Moving, Small Numbers, Average

  Joel Greenblatt (2011). “The Big Secret for the Small Investor: A New Route to Long-Term Investment Success”, p.60, John Wiley & Sons

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• The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

  Warren Buffett

  War, Past, Investing Money

  "The Security I Like Best". Warren Buffett, The Commercial and Financial Chronicle (December 6, 1951), as quoted in "5 Tips From Warren Buffett Every Investor Should Take to Heart" by Stacy Rapacon, grow.acorns.com. August 24, 2017.

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• In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment.

  Peter Lynch

  Commitment, Divorce, Romance

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• Thousands of people have tried, and the evidence is clear: The more you trade, the less you keep.

  Benjamin Graham

  People, Evidence, Clear

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.11, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Loss, Buffets

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• We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'

  Warren Buffett

  Believe, Romantic Love, Night

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• Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

  George Soros

  Reality, Air, Successful Investing

  BuzzFlash interview, February 25, 2004.

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