Investment Quotes

• Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Business, War

  "The Three Essential Warren Buffett Quotes To Live By" by James Berman, www.forbes.com. April 20, 2014.

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• So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

  Ayn Rand

  Funny, Inspiring, Money

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.315, Penguin

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• If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Business, Customer Satisfaction

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 22, 2016

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• An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Encouraging, Education, Money

  Jack Vincent, Benjamin Franklin (2010). “Benjamin Franklin's the Way to Wealth”, p.91, The Way to Wealth

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• Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades

  Marc Lamont Hill

  Past, Jail, Government

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• Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Business, Integrity, Bad Day

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.133, Graphic Arts Books

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• Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett". Book by Andrew Kilpatrick, 1994.

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  If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

  Warren Buffett

  Money, Business, Work

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• Investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business and How to Think About Market Prices

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Two, Needs

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.160, John Wiley & Sons

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• Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.

  Benjamin Graham

  Hope, Time, Money

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

  Warren Buffett

  Business, War, Doe

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• Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

  Paul Samuelson

  Money, Vegas, Saving

  "Paul Samuelson's Words of Wisdom" by Larry Swedroe, www.cbsnews.com. December 17, 2009.

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• You have to understand what market history looks like. What market history tells you is that the very, very best investments are made when things look the worst.

  William J. Bernstein

  Looks, Made, Worst

  Source: www.npr.org

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• How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.

  Robert G. Allen

  Money, Investing Your Time, Saving

  Robert G. Allen (2006). “Creating Wealth: Retire in Ten Years Using Allen's Seven Principles of Wealth”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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

  Alfred Marshall

  Money, People, Investing

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

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• I hate weekends because there is no stock market.

  Rene Rivkin

  Friday, Hate, Sunday

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Money, Business, Saving

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• Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon

  Peter Lynch

  Ideas, Investing, Saving

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

  Jules Renard

  Funny, Money, Men

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• Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Success, Money

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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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• 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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• Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Safety, Challenges

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

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