Investing Quotes - Page 2

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains.

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.

Don't take action with a trade until the market, itself, confirms your opinion. Being a little late in a trade is insurance that your opinion is correct. In other words, don't be an impatient trader.

You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

Things are temporary, relationships last forever. Nothing can replace the time we spend investing in the life of another.

Never invest in a business you can't understand

The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

Bull markets are born on pessimism, grown on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy, and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell.

Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.

Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth.

In the long run, investing is not about markets at all. Investing is about enjoying the returns earned by businesses.

When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.

How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.

Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well.

Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you've got talents, no one can take them from you.

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

A prudent speculator never argues with the tape. Markets are never wrong, opinions often are.

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight.

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

The miracle of compounding returns has been overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs.