Investing Quotes - Page 12

The only thing I do know is that from chaos comes opportunity.

Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.

To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.

The beauty of periodic rebalancing is that it forces you to base your investing decisions on a simple, objective standard.

A speculator gambles that a stock will go up in price because somebody else will pay even more for it.

The purpose of investing is not to simply optimise returns and make yourself rich. The purpose is not to die poor.

If you knew what was going to happen in the economy, you still wouldn't necessarily know what was going to happen in the stock market.

Focus on your customers and lead your people as though their lives depend on your success.

Don't sell on bad news.

Each year we buy stocks and they go up, we sell them and then we try to buy something cheaper.

The successful investor is usually an individual who is inherently interested in business problems.

The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share.

Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. If you are susceptible to selling everything in a panic, you ought to avoid stocks and mutual funds altogether.

Suppose it was demonstrated that one out of twenty alcoholics could learn to become a moderate social drinker. The experienced clinician would answer, 'Even if true, act as if it were false, for you will never identify that one in twenty, and in the attempt five in twenty will be ruined.' Investors should forsake the search for such tiny needles in huge haystacks.

There is nothing more important to this nation's future than investing in our young people.

Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.

Fund investors are confident that they can easily select superior fund managers. They are wrong.

It is what people actually did in the stock market that counted - not what they said they were going to do.

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

Having fallen from the eternal, the Evil One's desires are endless, insatiable. Having fallen from pure Being, he is driven by the desire to possess, to fill his emptiness. But the problem is insoluble, always. He is compelled to have and to hold, to possess and consume, and nothing else. All he takes, he destroys.

When you look at the results on an after-fee, after-tax basis over reasonably long periods of time, there's almost no chance that you end up beating the index fund.

The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.

All intelligent investing is value investing - acquiring more that you are paying for. You must value the business in order to value the stock.

After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

You can learn investing by reading books.