Investing Quotes - Page 9

I've not found ! one single mutual fund, one single real estate investment, any gold, silver or anything else that has given me higher returns than: me investing in myself.

If your fund doesn't last for the long term, how can you invest for the long term?

Always consider investing in a grade-A man with a grade-B idea. Never invest in a grade-B man with a grade-A idea.

The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

Value investing is risk aversion.

Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable.

Investors have very short memories

Most investors would be better off in an index fund.

There's no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or worse, to buy more of it when the fundamentals are deteriorating.

The only ones to get hurt on a roller coaster are the jumpers.

Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.

... a speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

A man must study general conditions, to seize them so as to be able to anticipate probabilities.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Most active mutual funds are more interested in collecting fees than in boosting returns for investors.

Hard work, honesty, if you keep at it, will get you almost anything.

Never buy a stock because it has gone up or sell one because it has gone down.

At heart, "uncertainty" and "investing" are synonyms.

The intelligent investor gets interested in big growth stocks not when they are at their most popular - but when something goes wrong.

You never really know a stock until you own it.