Investing Quotes - Page 5

In trading/ investing it's not about how much you make, but how much you don't lose

The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.

Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.

The intellectual and social climate needed to allow entrepreneurship to thrive will not exist in advanced capitalism.

Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.

In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a speculative undertaking.

Anyone who is not investing now is missing a tremendous opportunity.

The secret to investing is to figure out the value of something - and then pay a lot less.

Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.

I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am no investor.

Know what you own, and know why you own it.

I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.

Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise.

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

By refusing to pay too much for an investment, you minimize the chances that your wealth will ever disappear or suddenly be destroyed.

The value of any investment is, and always must be, a function of the price you pay for it.

There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.

Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon. I found it one of the hardest things to learn. But it is only after a stock operator has firmly grasped this that he can make big money.

Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.

The investor with a portfolio of sound stocks should expect their prices to fluctuate and should neither be concerned by sizable declines nor become excited by sizable advances. He should always remember that market quotations are there for his convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.

The stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing.

To be an investor you must be a believer in a better tomorrow.

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.