Investing Quotes - Page 27

Sound investing can make you very wealthy if you're not in too big a hurry

Yes, Warren has done very well.

Ben was a great believer in buying a diversified group of securities, so that he limited his risk.

I liked the results of the profits in the markets.

You have to be a little aware of the emotions of the people who have invested with you.

Graham liked the idea of protection on the downside.

Before selling, try to re-evaluate the company again and see where the stock sells in realtion to its book value.

You have to have confidence in what you're doing.

Our average holding period is four years.

We basically followed the idea of buying comapnies selling below working-capital - at two thirds of working-capital.

Don't be afraid to be a loner but be sure that you are correct in your judgement.

Most investors are primarily oriented toward return, how much they can make and pay little attention to risk, how much they can lose.

Sometimes buying early on the way down looks like being wrong, but it isn't.

Rigor is always appropriate when investing in markets, whatever the ultimate conclusions may be.

That's not to say there's no such thing as an overvalued market, but there's no point worrying about it.

Forsake search for needles that are so very small in haystacks that are so very large.

If users are not doing what the designer intended (when users are investing time, effort, etc in your product), the designer may be asking them to do too much.

We know that by simply changing our allocation between stocks and bonds, we can lessen the amount of volatility in our portfolio until we reach our comfortable sleep level.

It is difficult to systematically beat the market. But it is not difficult to systematically throw money down a rat hole by generating commissions and other costs.

There is no other proposition in economics that has more solid empirical evidence supporting it than the Efficient Market Hypothesis... In the literature of finance, accounting, and the economics of uncertainty, the EMH is accepted as a fact of life.

Everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it and get it incorporated into prices.

The safe time to invest is when there is blood in the streets.

We should be investing where the public returns are greatest - that is in innovation.

It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister

There is plenty of work to do, but big business isn't investing in rebuilding a green economy for the 21st century. Instead, they put their money into a gigantic financial casino, and when that led to catastrophe in 2008-9, they made us pay for it.