Investing Quotes - Page 3

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

I’ve learned many things from him [George Soros], but perhaps the most significant is that it’s not whether you’re right or wrong that’s important, but how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong.

Unfortunately, the more complex the system, the greater the room for error.

When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: 'we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year.

The single greatest edge an investor can have is a long-term orientation.

If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.

Any man who is a bear on the future of this country will go broke.

The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.

I have a motto: it's never too late to give up. It's never too late to give up what you are doing, and start doing what you realise you love.

The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences of being wrong.

We continue to make more money when snoring than when active.

Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones

Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.

To buy when others are despondently selling and sell when others are greedily buying requires the greatest fortitude and pays the greatest reward.

If you want to have a lasting influence upon the world, you must invest in people's lives; and if you want to maximize that investment, then you must invest in those people while they are young.

If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.

It is more important to say "no" to an opportunity, than to say "yes".

Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.

While Financier George Soros was investing money in Kosovo's reconstruction, the George Soros Foundation for an Open Society had opened a branch office in Pristina establishing the Kosovo Foundation for an Open Society (KFOS) as part of the Soros' network of "non-profit foundations" in the Balkans.

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover.

The true investor... will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operation results of his companies.

Every once in a while, the market does something so stupid it takes your breath away

Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.