Investing Quotes - Page 8

• My philosophy is that all stocks are bad. There are no good stocks unless they go up in price. If they go down instead, you have to cut your losses fast Letting losses run is the most serious mistake made by most investors.

  William O'Neil

  Running, Mistake, Philosophy

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• Your success in investing will depend in part on your character and guts, and in part on your ability to realize at the height of ebullience and the depth of despair alike that this too shall pass.

  John C. Bogle

  Character, Despair, Depth

  John C. Bogle (2015). “Bogle On Mutual Funds: New Perspectives For The Intelligent Investor”, p.242, John Wiley & Sons

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• The natural-born investor is a myth.

  Peter Lynch

  Natural, Born, Myth

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• I’d compare stock pickers to astrologers but I don’t want to bad mouth astrologers.

  Eugene Fama

  Astrology, Bad Advice, Mouths

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• I learned that a real friendship is not about what you can get, but what you can give.  Real friendship is about making sacrifices and investing in people to help them improve their lives.

  Eric Thomas

  Real, Sacrifice, People

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• Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Optimistic, Vision, Pessimistic

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• Have the courage of your convictions once you have made a decision.

  Walter Schloss

  Decision, Conviction, Made

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• Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.

  Bill Ackman

  Silly, Long, Looks

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• You can learn investing by reading books.

  Bill Ackman

  Book, Reading, Reading Books

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• The real secret to investing is that there is no secret to investing.

  Seth Klarman

  Real, Secret

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• When stock prices are rising, it's called ''momentum investing''; when they are falling, it's called ''panic.''

  Paul Krugman

  Fall, Momentum, Rising

  "Reckonings; Goldilocks And the Bears". www.nytimes.com. April 16, 2000.

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• It's like a crapshoot in Las Vegas, except in Las Vegas the odds are with the house. As for the market, the odds are with you, because on average over the long run, the market has paid off.

  Harry Markowitz

  Running, Odds, Las Vegas

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• Watch out for people who think it's embarrassing not to know.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Thinking, People

  Ray Dalio (2017). “Principles: Life and Work”, p.363, Simon and Schuster

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• When I get up and work out, I'm working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It's just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, Daughter, Fitness

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• In order to be a really good investor, you need to be a little bit of a philosopher as well.

  Daniel S. Loeb

  Order, Needs, Littles

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• The only investment I ever made which has paid consistently increasing dividends is the money I have given to the Lord.

  James L. Kraft

  God, Money, Generosity

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• The only ones to get hurt on a roller coaster are the jumpers.

  Paul Harvey

  Hurt, Roller Coaster, Coasters

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• I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.

  Charles Koch

  Motivational, Money, Business

  "Koch Responds to Buffett’s Call for Tax Hikes" by Daniel Foster, www.nationalreview.com. August 19, 2011.

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• Selfish men make the best lovers. They're prepared to invest in the women's pleasures so that they can collect an even bigger dividend for themselves.

  J. G. Ballard

  Funny, Best Love, Selfish

  "Cocaine Nights". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1996.

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• The three most important words in investing...Margin of Safety.

  Warren Buffett

  Safety, Important, Three

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• The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

  Alfred Marshall

  Money, People, Investment

  Alfred Marshall (2009). “Principles of Economics: Unabridged Eighth Edition”, p.469, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Isn't it sad, that in a time when we face so many devastating problems - poverty, HIV/AIDS, war and conflict - that in our Communion we should be investing so much time and energy on disagreement about sexual orientation? [The Communion, which] used to be known for embodying the attribute of comprehensiveness, of inclusiveness, where we were meant to accommodate all and diverse views, saying we may differ in our theology but we belong together as sisters and brothers [now seems] hell-bent on excommunicating one another. God must look on and God must weep.

  Desmond Tutu

  Brother, War, Views

  "In the Eye of the Storm: Swept to the Center by God". spectrummagazine.org. May 11, 2008.

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• If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Change, Wise

  "Now super-rich face a backlash as credit crunch hits home in America" by Joanna Walters, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2008.

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• A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

  Saul Bellow

  Inspirational, Freedom, Fear

  Saul Bellow (2016). “To Jerusalem and Back”, p.100, Odyssey Editions

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• If you want to have a lasting influence upon the world, you must invest in people's lives; and if you want to maximize that investment, then you must invest in those people while they are young.

  George Barna

  People, World, Want

  George Barna (2013). “Transforming Children into Spiritual Champions”, p.30, Baker Books

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