Investing Quotes - Page 16

Investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. It will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you.

Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research.

There seems to be an unwritten rule on Wall Street: If you don't understand it, then put your life savings into it. Shun the enterprise around the corner, which can at least be observed, and seek out the one that manufactures an incomprehensible product.

Gentlemen who prefer bonds don't know what they're missing.

I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'

People who want to know how stocks fared on any given day ask, "Where did the Dow close?" I'm more interested in how many stocks went up versus how many went down. These so-called advance/decline numbers paint a more realistic picture.

Searching for companies is like looking for grubs under rocks: if you turn over 10 rocks you'll likely find one grub; if you turn over 20 rocks you'll find two.

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

One doesn't like instabilities in markets; they may be damaging, but probably not fatal, as the October '87 crash showed. It turned out to be essentially inconsequential. So if that's true, I'm not very worried about the welfare of those who are investing any more than I am about the welfare of those who go into casinos.

There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.

The multiple failings of our flawed financial sector are jeopardizing, not only the retirement security of our nation's savers but the economy in which our entire society participates.

A global economy is characterized not only by the free movement of goods and services but, more important, by the free movement of ideas and of capital.

How could economics not be behavioral? If it isn't behavioral, what the hell is it?

We have to have a special insight, or we'll put it in the 'too tough' basket. All of you have to look for a special area of competency and focus on that.

Warren spends 70 hours a week thinking about investing .

Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.

In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and emotional impossibility.

It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts.

The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.

The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones, and the age of oil won’t end because we run out of oil.

You're dealing with a lot of silly people in the marketplace; it's like a great big casino and everyone else is boozing. If you can stick with Pepsi, you should be OK.

Turnarounds seldom turn.

I really like my life. I've arranged my life so that I can do what I want.

Buy a business, don't rent stocks.

I'm not very good on timing. In fact, I've stayed away from it.