Investing Quotes - Page 28

You just have to be opportunistic, and try to figure out what creates value.. where the bottom is, what creates incremental value, and in what combinations.

"Now you can trade the S&P 500 Index in real time" was the slogan in the newspapers for the first ETF. What kind of nut would do that?

The trick is to take risks and be paid for taking those risks, but to take a diversified basket of risks in a portfolio.

As I discovered, there is a great deal of similarity between a boom-bust process in the financial markets and the rise and fall of the Soviet system.

It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).

We live in a time of instant everything, courtesy of the electronic highway. It creates a community of toddlers. When they don't get immediate gratification, they get petulant and sulky.

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?

Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong time.

All the research shows that investing in women is a good investment

I think that one should recognize reality even when one doesn't like it; indeed, especially when one doesn't like it.

All sensible investing is value investing

Nobody wants to be passive; indexing is not passive - much more goes into indexing than watching a stock become the next buggy whip.

The biggest threat to advanced economies is that debt will accumulate until the overhang weighs on growth.

Index funds do not trade from security to security and, thus, they tend to avoid capital gains taxes.

The trick in life is not to die. The trick in investing is not to lose.

(On being the world's richest man) I wish I wasn't ... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.

There is no reason to feel any shame in hiring someone to pick stocks or mutual funds for you. But there's one responsibility that you must never delegate. You, and no one but you, must investigate whether an adviser is trustworthy and charges reasonable fees.

If we assume that there are normal or standard income results to be obtained from investing money in securities, then the role of the adviser can be more readily established. He will use his superior training and experience to protect his clients against mistakes and to make sure that they obtain the results to which their money is entitled.

Wall Street is littered with the bones of those who knew just what to do, but could not bring themselves to do it.

It's not debt per say that overwhelms an individual corporation or country. Rather it is a continuous increase in debt in relation to income that causes trouble.

The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.

As far as you are concerned, the stock market does not exist. Ignore it.

We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good.

Does the business have favourable long term prospects?

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.