Investing Quotes - Page 22

Have a philosophy of investment and try to follow it.

I like the idea of company-paid dividends.

Look at companies selling at new lows.

Try not to let your emotions affect your judgement.

Be aware of the level of the stock market. Are yields low and PE ratios high?

The market is a very emotional place that appeals to fear and greed.

The cardinal maxim is, that any aid to a present bad Bank is the surest mode of preventing the establishment of a future good Bank.

I can only hope that one day soon we'll understand our true economic buying power by investing in our own communities and putting our money into businesses that keep our dollars in our community.

It's hard to find ideas that aren't picked over and harder to get real returns and differentiate yourself. We are entering a new environment. The days of big returns are gone.

The cost of performing well in bad times can be relative underperformance in good times.

We are big fans of fear, and in investing it is clearly better to be scared than sorry.

As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius.

The only certainty is that there is no certainty.

Investing and connecting are the key factors in turning any intention into reality.

When you start to confuse Freddie Mac, Sallie Mae and Fannie Mae with members of your family, and you remember 2,000 stock symbols but forget the children's birthdays, there's a good chance you've become too wrapped up in your work.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, in business, so is a number.

You can find good reasons to scuttle your equities in every morning paper and on every broadcast of the nightly news.

The more cash that builds up in the treasury, the greater the pressure to piss it away.

The worst thing you can do is invest in companies you know nothing about. Unfortunately, buying stocks on ignorance is still a popular American pastime.

Still, I figure we shouldn't' discourage fans of actively managed funds. With all their buying and selling, active investors ensure the market is reasonably efficient. That makes it possible for the rest of us to do the sensible thing, which is to index. Want to join me in this parasitic behavior? To build a well-diversified portfolio, you might stash 70 percent of your stock portfolio into a Wilshire 5000-index fund and the remaining 30 percent in an international-index fund.

For me it's all about keeping things simple and feeling comfortable in what I am wearing. I prefer investing in classic well-tailored pieces.

On the whole, however, it is only out of pride or gross ignorance, or cowardice, that we refuse to see in the present the lineaments of times to come.

The record of a month's roulette playing at Monte Carlo can afford us material for discussing the foundations of knowledge.

If I'd only followed CNBC's advice, I'd have a million dollars today. Provided I'd started with a hundred million dollars.

The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy.