Investing Quotes

Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.

I have $100 billion... You realize I could spend $3 million a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime.

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient.

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

I remember when being liberal meant being generous with your own money.

Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense.

Always associate yourself with people who are better than you.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

The Present is the womb of the future. A greater future happiness can be had only by investing in the present correctly. Look after the present and the future will look after itself.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new. Make it your goal to be better each and every day, in some small way. Remember the Japanese concept of Kaizen. Small daily improvements eventually result in huge advantages.

I’d compare stock pickers to astrologers but I don’t want to bad mouth astrologers.

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.

Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy.

The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.

All things flow, nothing abides. You cannot step into the same river twice, for the waters are continually flowing on. Nothing is permanent except change.

Investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game.

More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don't is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively