Investors Quotes - Page 2

• Most successful investors, in fact, do nothing most of the time.

  Jim Rogers

  Funny, Success, Humorous

  Jim Rogers (2013). “Street Smarts: Adventures on the Road and in the Markets”, p.58, Crown Business

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• The higher the yield, the higher the risk. A high yield is designed to attract investors. An outrageously high yield attracts fools.

  Nancy Dunnan

  Yield, Risk, Fool

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• A stock market decline is as routine as a January blizzard in Colorado. If you're prepared, it can't hurt you. A decline is a great opportunity to pick up the bargains left behind by investors who are fleeing the storm in panic.

  Peter Lynch

  Hurt, Opportunity, Storm

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• Investors don't like uncertainty.

  Kenneth Lay

  Uncertainty

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• Common stock investors can make money by predicting the outcomes of practice evolution. You can't derive this by fundamental analysis - you must think biologically.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Practice, Analysis

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• The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble, like marriage, except by reason of death or other grave cause, might be a useful remedy for our contemporary evils. For this would force the investor to direct his mind to the long-term prospects and to those only.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Long, Evil, Mind

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.143, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Nothing turns off an investor more than when an entrepreneur comes in with a ridiculous valuation.

  Kevin Harrington

  Entrepreneur, Ridiculous, Turns

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• Most investors are primarily oriented toward return, how much they can make and pay little attention to risk, how much they can lose.

  Seth Klarman

  Risk, Attention, Investing

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• The most realistic distinction between the investor and the speculator is found in their attitude toward stock-market movements. The speculator's primary interest lies in anticipating and profiting from market fluctuations. The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices. Market movements are important to him in a practical sense, because they alternately create low price levels at which he would be wise to buy and high price levels at which he certainly should refrain from buying and probably would be wise to sell.

  Benjamin Graham

  Wise, Attitude, Lying

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• There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Focus, Risk, Looks

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• The investor should be aware that even though safety of its principal and interest may be unquestioned, a long term bond could vary widely in market price in response to changes in interest rates.

  Benjamin Graham

  Long, Safety, Investing

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• Where you want to be is always in control, never wishing, always trading, and always first and foremost protecting your ass. That's why most people lose money as individual investors or traders because they're not focusing on losing money. They need to focus on the money that they have at risk and how much capital is at risk in any single investment they have. If everyone spent 90 percent of their time on that, not 90 percent of the time on pie-in-the-sky ideas on how much money they're going to make, then they will be incredibly successful investors.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Successful, Sky, Ideas

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• The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.

  Peter Lynch

  Money, Fear, Real

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• It's not always easy to do what's not popular, but that's where you make your money. Buy stocks that look bad to less careful investors and hang on until their real value is recognized.

  John Neff

  Real, Looks, Easy

  "John Neff on Investing". Book by John Neff, October 22, 1999.

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• Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of good business conditions. The purchasers view the good current earnings as equivalent to 'earning power' and assume that prosperity is equivalent to safety.

  Benjamin Graham

  Loss, Taught Us, Views

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• In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

  Benjamin Graham

  Running, Business, Intelligent

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.179, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Real investors should never feel bearish because the time to buy value is when markets go down!

  Irving Kahn

  Real, Should, Feels

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• The true investor... will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operation results of his companies.

  Benjamin Graham

  Attention, Investing, Pay

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

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• In choosing a portfolio, investors should seek broad diversification, Further, they should understand that equities--and corporate bonds also--involve risk; that markets inevitably fluctuate; and their portfolio should be such that they are willing to ride out the bad as well as the good times.

  Harry Markowitz

  Risk, Portfolios, Good Times

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• The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.

  Barry Ritholtz

  Intelligent, News, Use

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• Investors should invest on what they know. The biggest mistake is to invest on what they don't know.

  Mohamed El-Erian

  Mistake, Should, Knows

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• My positioning with my investors was always, I need three to five years.

  Michael Burry

  Years, Needs, Three

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• Short-term performance envy causes many of the shortcomings that lock most investors into a perpetual cycle of underachievement. Watch your competitors not out of jealousy but out of respect and focus your efforts not on replicating others' portfolios but on looking for opportunities where they are not. The only way for investors to significantly outperform is to periodically stand far apart from the crowd, something few are willing, or able, to do.

  Seth Klarman

  Opportunity, Envy, Focus

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• Ultimately, nothing should be more important to investors than the ability to sleep soundly at night.

  Seth Klarman

  Sleep, Night, Important

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• To be a successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Money, Inspiration, Successful

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