Investors Quotes

• The single greatest edge an investor can have is a long-term orientation.

  Seth Klarman

  Long, Investing, Term

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  Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Life, Money

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• The successful investor is usually an individual who is inherently interested in business problems.

  Philip Arthur Fisher

  Successful, Investing, Problem

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• Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing

  Jessica Livingston

  People, Investing, Want

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• Most investors say "Don't take risks." The rich investor takes risks.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Risk, Financial, Rich

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• The speculator is not an investor.

  Edwin Lefevre

  Speculators

  Edwin Lefèvre (2004). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.117, John Wiley & Sons

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• Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent.

  Andrew Lo

  Money, Intuition, Needs

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• If you are going to be a great investor, you have to fit the style to who you are.

  Michael Burry

  Style, Fit, Ifs

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• My biggest prediction for the future is that people are going to start looking after individual investors.

  John C. Bogle

  People, Individual, Predictions

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• Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing Money, Investment Success, Enemy

  Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman's Letter, www.berkshirehathaway.com. 2004.

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• If you don't want to lose, you should wait for the right opportunity

  Aesop

  Opportunity, Waiting, Want

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• Time and again, in every market cycle I have witnessed, the extremes of emotion always appear, even among experienced investors. When the world wants to buy only [bonds], you can almost close your eyes and [buy] stocks.

  Michael Steinhardt

  Eye, World, Want

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• By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing, Investment, Fund

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• Nothing in finance is more fatuous and harmful, in our opinion, than the firmly established attitude of common stock investors regarding questions of corporate management. That attitude is summed up in the phrase: "If you don't like the management, sell your stock." ... The public owners seem to have abdicated all claim to control over the paid superintendents of their property.

  Benjamin Graham

  Attitude, Phrases, Opinion

  "The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing". Book by Benjamin Graham, Chapter I, What the Intelligent Investor Can Accomplish, p. 18, 1949.

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• Billionaire investors know they're going to be wrong, so they have a plan to protect against wrong.

  Tony Robbins

  Billionaire, Protect, Plans

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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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 time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy.

  John Templeton

  Investing, Pessimism, Investment

  "Sir John Templeton" by Martin Adeney, www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2008.

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• I’ve learned many things from him [George Soros], but perhaps the most significant is that it’s not whether you’re right or wrong that’s important, but how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong.

  Stanley Druckenmiller

  Important, Investing, I've Learned

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• For all long-term investors, there is only one objective-maximum total real return after taxes.

  John Templeton

  Real, Long, Return

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• Employees pay the highest percentage of taxes. Big business and investors pay the least.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Pay, Bigs, Percentages

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• The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.

  Warren Buffett

  Important, Quality, Needs

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• It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

  Warren Buffett

  Motivational, Investing, Buffets

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• Stock prices are likely to be among the prices that are relatively vulnerable to purely social movements because there is no accepted theory by which to understand the worth of stocks....investors have no model or at best a very incomplete model of behavior of prices, dividend, or earnings, of speculative assets.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Investing, Movement, Earning

  "Martket Volatility". Book by Robert J. Shiller, www.businessinsider.com. 1992.

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• Graham's wonderful sentence as, an investor needs only two things: cash and courage. Having only one of them is not enough.

  Seth Klarman

  Two, Needs, Cash

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• The American economy is going to do fine. But it won't do fine every year and every week and every month. I mean, if you don't believe that, forget about buying stocks anyway... It's a positive-sum game, long term. And the only way an investor can get killed is by high fees or by trying to outsmart the market.

  Warren Buffett

  Believe, Mean, Years

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