Investing Quotes - Page 4

The propensity to swindle grows parallel with the propensity to speculate during a boom the implosion of an asset price bubble always leads to the discovery of frauds and swindles

Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing.

Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans.

If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.

Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new.

Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon

Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.

A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.

Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

The entire pursuit of value investing requires you to see where the crowd is wrong so that you can profit from their misperceptions.

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

Transformation in the world happens when people are healed and start investing in other people.

One of the best rules anybody can learn about investing is to do nothing, absolutely nothing, unless there is something to do... I just wait until there is money lying in the corner, and all I have to do is go over there and pick it up... I wait for a situation that is like the proverbial "shooting fish in a barrel."

I take the market-efficiency hypothesis to be the simple statement that security prices fully reflect all available information.

Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.

First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots.

Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public.

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

It's amazing how difficult it is for a man to understand something if he's paid a small fortune not to understand it.

Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator.

Surprise! The returns reported by mutual funds aren't actually earned by mutual fund investors.

Remember this: When you are doing nothing, those speculators who feel they must trade day in and day out, are laying the foundation for your next venture. You will reap benefits from their mistakes.

Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process.

So instead of investing your time in a passion, you’ve sold your life to work for an uncaring machine that doesn’t understand you. That’s the problem with our society. And what’s the reward? Go home and get a big TV.

Risk is good. Not properly managing your risk is a dangerous leap.