Investors Quotes - Page 8

• A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors. My mentor, Ben Graham, took this position many years ago, and everything I have seen since convinces me of its truth.

  Warren Buffett

  Years, Mentor, Majority

  "The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns". Book by John C. Bogle, March 05, 2007.

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• The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.

  Benjamin Graham

  Loss, Quality, Investing

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

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• Our favorite holding period is forever.

  Warren Buffett

  Funny Inspirational, Business, War

  Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett (2013). “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)”, p.63, Carolina Academic Press

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• If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.

  George Soros

  Fun, Investing Money, Boring

  "The Winning Investment Habits of Warren Buffett & George Soros". Book by Mark Tier, 2006.

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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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• 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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• Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of even an outstanding company to catch up with the price they paid.

  Warren Buffett

  Needs, Investing, May

  "7 Warren Buffett Quotes For Active Investors". www.seeitmarket.com. November 26, 2014.

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• The idea that you try to time purchases based on what you think business is going to do in the next year or two, I think that's the greatest mistake that investors make because it's always uncertain. People say it's a time of uncertainty. It was uncertain on September 10th, 2001, people just didn't know it. It's uncertain every single day. So take uncertainty as part of being involved in investment at all. But uncertainty can be your friend. I mean, when people are scared, they pay less for things. We try to price. We don't try to time at all.

  Warren Buffett

  Mistake, Mean, Thinking

  "Warren Buffett's 'Stock Split' Interview". "Squawk Box" with Becky Quick, www.cnbc.com. January 10, 2010.

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• Utilities used deregulation to effect a series of mergers limiting competition. In order to accelerate profits, cost cutting ensued, involving the layoff of thousands of utility company employees, including some who were responsible for maintenance of generation, transmission, and distribution systems. A number of investor-owned utilities stopped investing in the maintenance and repair of their own equipment, and, instead, cut costs to enhance the value of their stock rather than spending money to enhance the value of their service.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Money, Cutting, Order

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• An intelligent investor gets satisfaction from the thought that his operations are exactly opposite to those of the crowd.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Opposites, Investing

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• The idea that a bell rings to signal when investors should get into or out of the stock market is simply not credible. After nearly fifty years in this business, I do not know of anybody who has done it successfully and consistently. I don't even know anybody who knows anybody who has done it successfully and consistently. Yet market timing appears to be increasingly embraced by mutual fund investors and the professional managers of fund portfolios alike.

  John C. Bogle

  Years, Ideas, Investing

  John C. Bogle (2010). “Common Sense on Mutual Funds”, p.28, John Wiley & Sons

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• Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should try to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy only when others are fearful.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investing Money, Enemy

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

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• The majority of unskilled investors stubbornly hold onto their losses when the losses are small and reasonable. They could get out cheaply, but being emotionally involved and human, they keep waiting and hoping until their loss gets much bigger and costs them dearly.

  William O'Neil

  Loss, Waiting, Majority

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• Most investors are pretty smart. Yet most investors also remain heavily invested in actively managed stock funds. This is puzzling. The temptation, of course, is to dismiss these folks as ignorant fools. But I suspect these folks know the odds are stacked against them, and yet they are more than happy to take their chances.

  Jonathan Clements

  Smart, Odds, Temptation

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• In our view, though, investment students need only two well-taught courses-How to Value a Business, and How to Think about Market Prices. Your goal as an investor should simply be to purchase, at a rational price, a part interest in an easily-understandable business who's earnings are virtually certain to be materially higher five, ten and twenty years from now.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Two, Views

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

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• Most investors want to do today what they should have done yesterday.

  Lawrence Summers

  Should Have, Yesterday, Investing

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• The most important attribute for success in value investing is patience, patience, and more patience. The majority of investors do not possess this characteristic.

  Peter Cundill

  Important, Majority, Investing

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• First, many in Wall Street - a community in which quality control is not prized - will sell investors anything they will buy.

  Warren Buffett

  Wall, Community, Quality

  Warren Buffett's annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway's shareholders, www.berkshirehathaway.com. February 28, 2001.

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• We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'

  Warren Buffett

  Believe, Romantic Love, Night

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• Value investing is simple to understand but difficult to implement. Value investors are not supersophisticated analytical wizards who create and apply intricate computer models to find attractive opportunities or assess underlying value. The hard part is discipline, patience, and judgment. Investors need discipline to avoid the many unattractive pitches that are thrown, patience to wait for the right pitch, and judgment to know when it is time to swing.

  Seth Klarman

  Opportunity, Simple, Swings

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• Investment performance doesn't determine real-life returns; investor behavior does.

  Nick Murray

  Real, Doe, Return

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  The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.

  Warren Buffett

  Quality, Important, Buffets

  "Rules That Warren Buffett Lives By". February 23, 2010.

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• The intelligent investor is likely to need considerable will power to keep from following the crowd.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Needs, Following The Crowd

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.29, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The greatest Enemies of the Equity investor are Expenses and Emotions.

  Warren Buffett

  Enemy, Investing, Emotion

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• The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

  Warren Buffett

  War, Past, Investing Money

  "The Security I Like Best". Warren Buffett, The Commercial and Financial Chronicle (December 6, 1951), as quoted in "5 Tips From Warren Buffett Every Investor Should Take to Heart" by Stacy Rapacon, grow.acorns.com. August 24, 2017.

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