Investing Quotes - Page 14

Money is ultimately not enough compensation for investing your time and energy: there has to be a sense of purpose, meaning and fulfillment.

Mankind invented a system to cope with the fact that we are so intrinsically lousy at manipulating numbers. It's called the graph.

You're looking for a mispriced gamble. That's what investing is. And you have to know enough to know whether the gamble is mispriced. That's value investing.

The period of financial distress is a gradual decline after the peak of a speculative bubble that precedes the final and massive panic and crash, driven by the insiders having exited but the sucker outsiders hanging on hoping for a revivial, but finally giving up in the final collapse.

The intelligent investor shouldn't ignore Mr. Market entirely. Instead, you should do business with him- but only to the extent that it serves your interests.

Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they are cheap.

As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him.

No statement is more true and better applicable to Wall Street than the famous warning of Santayana: "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it".

Coronation: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.

Time and space are not conditions of existence, time and space is a model for thinking

The best business returns are usually achieved by companies that are doing something quite similar today to what they were doing five or ten years ago.

Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.

We do not spend a great deal of time talking to management.

Most look at earnings and earnings potential, well I can't get into that game.

Interestingly, we have beaten the market quite handsomely over this time frame, although beating the market has never been our objective. Rather, we have consistently tried not to lose money and, in doing so, have not only protected on the downside but also outperformed on the upside.

Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks.

To offer women something that feels more about investing in something and less about being disposable is a complete corrective to the world we live in

Practical investors usually learn their problem is finding enough outstanding investments, rather than choosing among too many.

It would be wonderful if we could avoid the setbacks with timely exits, but nobody has figured out how to predict them.

If you're lucky enough to have been rewarded in life to the degree that I have, there comes a point at which you have to decide whether to become a slave to your net worth by devoting the rest of your life to increasing it or to let what you've accumulated begin to serve you.

In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.

Owning stocks is like having children - don't get involved with more than you can handle.

The simpler it is, the better I like it.

Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the corrections.

Most investors want to do today what they should have done yesterday.