Investment Quotes - Page 2

No matter what business you are in, and no matter how small or mundane, the activities, there must be continuous investment in it.

Improving the health & productivity of the poorest is one of the best investments you can make in the future of the world

Diversification is an established tenet of conservative investment.

Investment is a flighty bird which needs to be controlled.

Long-term investment success is almost totally a function of how one emotionally handles declines in the equity market, as opposed to how one's portfolio handles them.

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.

As an investor with small capital, one should prefer businesses that have high returns on capital and that require little incremental investment to grow.

The ability to change one's mind is probably a key characteristic of the successful investor. Dogmatic and rigid personalities rarely, if ever, succeed in the markets. The markets are a dynamic process, and sustained investment success requires the ability to modify and even change strategies as markets evolve.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

Investment success cannot be captured in a mathematical equation or a computer program.

The prerequisite for more economic equality in the world is industrialization. And this is possible only through increased capital investment, increased capital accumulation.

Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test.

Every ad is an investment in the long-term image of a brand.

You can't find returns in investments you haven't made.

“No thought lives in your head rent-free.” Each thought you have will either be an investment or a cost.

No one else has an investment in your personal life as you do.

To have a true investment, there must be a true margin of safety. And a true margin of safety is one that can be demonstrated by figures, by persuasive reasoning, and by reference to a body of actual experience.

In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.

You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.

Your brand is the single most important investment you can make in your business

Wealth is not determined by investment performance, but by investor behavior.

You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.

You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.

Some investments do have higher expected returns than others. Which ones? Well, by and large they're the ones that will do the worst in bad times.

Entitlement never wins Championships, Investment wins Championships.