Investing Quotes - Page 6

Investing is simple, but not easy.

You can be sure that over the next 10 years, you'll see something that you did not think was possible.

There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.

When I'm bearish and I sell a stock, each sale must be at a lower level than the previous sale. When I am buying, the reverse is true. I must buy on a rising scale. I don't buy long stocks on a scale down, I buy on a scale up.

There is only one side to the stock market; and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side

We next consider the rule that the investor does or should consider expected return a desirable thing and variance of return an undesirable thing.

Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless.

It is literally true that millions come easier to a trader after he knows how to trade, than hundreds did in the days of his ignorance.

The hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe.

The intelligent investor should recognize that market panics can create great prices for good companies and good prices for great companies.

Successful investing professionals are disciplined and consistent and they think a great deal about what they do and how they do it.

Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth.

Building your own business is the best way to become rich. Then you can begin investing in other assets.

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

Experience has proved to me that real money made in speculating has been in commitments in a stock or commodity showing a profit right from the start.

You must never delude yourself into thinking that you're investing when you're speculating.

Diversification is an established tenet of conservative investment.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Just because you buy a stock and it goes up does not mean you are right. Just because you buy a stock and it goes down does not mean you are wrong.

It only takes a handful of big winners to make a lifetime of investing worthwhile.

Before you invest in anything else, exhaust the possibilities of investing in your own business first.

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.

An intelligent investor gets satisfaction from the thought that his operations are exactly opposite to those of the crowd.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.