Investors Quotes - Page 3

• The mistakes we make as investors is when the market's going up, we think it's going to go up forever. When the market goes down, we think it's going to go down forever. Neither of those things actually happen. Doesn't do anything forever. It's by the moment.

  John C. Bogle

  Mistake, Thinking, Forever

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• Individual and institutional investors alike frequently demonstrate an inability to make long-term investment decisions based on business fundamentals.

  Seth Klarman

  Long, Decision, Fundamentals

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• Successful investors tend to be unemotional, allowing the greed and fear of others to play into their hands. By having confidence in their own analysis and judgement, they respond to market forces not with blind emotion but with calculated reason. Successful investors, for example, demonstrate caution in frothy markets and steadfast conviction in panicky ones. Indeed, the very way an investor views the market and it’s price fluctuations is a key factor in his or her ultimate investment success or failure.

  Seth Klarman

  Successful, Keys, Views

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• If you took our top fifteen decisions out, we'd have a pretty average record. It wasn't hyperactivity, but a hell of a lot of patience. You stuck to your principles and when opportunities came along, you pounced on them with vigor.

  Charlie Munger

  Money, Opportunity, Average

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• You don't need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.

  Ben Horowitz

  Believe, Inspiration, Needs

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• Value investors should completely exit a security by the time it reaches full value; owning overvalued securities is the realm of speculators.

  Seth Klarman

  Exit, Should, Realms

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• Experience taught me to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.

  Donald Trump

  Investing Money, Entrepreneur, Paper

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.28, Ballantine Books

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• Know what you own, and know why you own it.

  Peter Lynch

  Money, Intelligent, Investing

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• Hedge funds are investment pools that are relatively unconstrained in what they do. They are relatively unregulated (for now), charge very high fees, will not necessarily give you your money back when you want it, and will generally not tell you what they do. They are supposed to make money all the time, and when they fail at this, their investors redeem and go to someone else who has recently been making money. Every three or four years they deliver a one-in-a-hundred year flood. They are generally run for rich people in Geneva, Switzerland, by rich people in Greenwich, Connecticut.

  Cliff Asness

  Running, Years, People

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• The historical data support one conclusion with unusual force: To invest with success, you must be a long-term investor.

  John C. Bogle

  Data, Long, Support

  John C. Bogle (2010). “Common Sense on Mutual Funds”, p.7, John Wiley & Sons

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• Investors should pay attention not only to whether but also to why current holdings are undervalued. It is critical to know why you have made an investment and to sell when the reason for owning it no longer applies. Look for investments with catalysts that may assist directly in the realization of underlying value. Give reference to companies having good managements with a personal financial stake in the business. Finally, diversify your holdings and hedge when it is financially attractive to do so.

  Seth Klarman

  Giving, Good Man, Attention

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• I favour passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.

  Merton Miller

  Successful, Investing, Information

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• I think corporate managers should learn to be better investors because it would make them better managers.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Should, Corporate

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• The biggest mistake investors make is to believe that what happened in the recent past is likely to persist. They assume that something that was a good investment in the recent past is still a good investment. Typically, high past returns simply imply that an asset has become more expensive and is a poorer, not better, investment.

  Ray Dalio

  Mistake, Believe, Past

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• In the 1950s and 1960s, the heroes were the long-term investors; today the heroes are the wise guys.

  Michael Steinhardt

  Wise, Hero, Long

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• The natural-born investor is a myth.

  Peter Lynch

  Investing, Natural, Born

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• Warren Buffett likes to say that the first rule of investing is "Don't lose money," and the second rule is, "Never forget the first rule." I too believe that avoiding loss should be the primary goal of every investor. This does not mean that investors should never incur the risk of any loss at all. Rather "don't lose money" means that over several years an investment portfolio should not be exposed to appreciable loss of principal.

  Seth Klarman

  Believe, Mean, Loss

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• Investors need to pick their poison: Either make more money when times are good and have a really ugly year every so often, or protect on the downside and don't be at the party so long when things are good.

  Seth Klarman

  Party, Years, Long

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• A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of great companies with great management at good prices. Only for short term investors and market timers is a correction not an opportunity.

  Warren Buffett

  Opportunity, Long, Management

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• Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Motivational, Average, Trying

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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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• I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.

  Peter Lynch

  Real, Thinking, Investing

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• An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Jobs, Wages, Investment

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• Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing Money, Talking, Quality

  Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman's Letter, 2008.

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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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