Investing Quotes - Page 20

You're neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You're right because your facts are right and your reasoning is right - that's the only thing that makes you right. And if your facts and reasoning are right, you don't have to worry about anybody else.

Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.

We don't put the same amount of money in each stock.

People don't like to buy things that are going down.

Some kinds of stocks are easier to analyse than others.

Ben was really a contrarian but he didn't use those terms because he was really buying value.

First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.

The Wheels of Justice turn slowly but exceedingly fine.

Value investing is predicated on the efficient market hypothesis being wrong.

Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.

Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition.

Probability is the very guide of life.

This LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into harmony.

One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities of your mistakes. A bad call can lose you many millions.

Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising

I don't want a lot of good investments; I want a few outstanding ones.

The considerations upon which expectations of prospective yields are based are partly existing facts which we can assume to be known more or less for certain, and partly future events which can only be forecasted with more or less confidence.

As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.

To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.

He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection that he devotes to the selection of a medium-priced automobile.

I believe the only things that really matter in investing are the bubbles and the busts

Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test. The main difference is that the hypothesis that underlies an investment decision is intended to make money and not to establish a universally valid generalization.

When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.

If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one's conceptions and what one does about them. Life can be seen as a fertile fallacy.

I very often used to get backaches due to the fact that I was wrong. Whenever you are wrong you have to fight or [take] flight. When [I] make the decision, the backache goes away.