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Nick Murray Quotes

Wealth is not determined by investment performance, but by investor behavior.

Wealth is not determined by investment performance, but by investor behavior.

Nick Murray
Determined, Wealth, Investment
Nick Murray (1999). “Simple Wealth, Inevitable Wealth: How You and Your Financial Advisor Can Grow Your Fortune in Stock Mutual Funds”, Nick Murray Company

If you think the market’s 'too high' wait 'til you see it 20 years from now.

Nick Murray
Thinking, Years, Waiting

All financial success comes from acting on a plan. A lot of financial failure comes from reacting to the market

Nick Murray
Acting, Financial, Plans

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

Nick Murray
Real, Doe, Return

Long-term investment success is almost totally a function of how one emotionally handles declines in the equity market, as opposed to how one's portfolio handles them.

Nick Murray
Investment Success, Long, Portfolios

Declines are temporary, gains are permanent.

Nick Murray
Gains, Decline, Permanent

You have to pick what you're going to be worried about. Markets are volatile, but retirement is certain.

Nick Murray
Retirement, Worried, Certain

Timing the market is a fools game, whereas time in the market is your greatest natural advantage.

Nick Murray
Games, Investing, Fool

Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting.

Nick Murray
Choices, Excellence, Mediocrity

In the long run, not doing what's necessary to do the thing you're afraid will hurt you, hurts infinitely worse than doing it.

Nick Murray
Running, Hurt, Long

Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the . that squares with the facts, and with the historical record

Nick Murray
Squares, Long, Historical

Surprise is the mother of panic.

Nick Murray
Mother, Panic, Surprise

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