quotations about investing
When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.
WARREN BUFFETT
attributed, The Motley Fool, September 20, 2012
Professional investment may be likened to those newspaper competitions in which the competitors have to pick out the six prettiest faces from a hundred photographs, the prize being awarded to the competitor whose choice most nearly corresponds to the average preferences of the competitors as a whole.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
Highly successful investors will all tell you that diversification is for the birds. But that's not a message you're likely to hear from your Wall Street advisor.
MARK TIER
The Winning Investment Habits of Warren Buffett & George Soros
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The Way to Wealth: Advice, Hints, and Tips on Business, Money, and Finance
I can guarantee one thing. Those who put an investment program in place will have a lot more money when they come to retire than those who never got around to it.
NOEL WHITTAKER
attributed, Crawford Property Group
Investors should purchase stocks like they purchase groceries, not like they purchase perfume.
BENJAMIN GRAHAM
attributed, Superinvestors: Lessons from the greatest investors in history
It can be argued that the U.S. brokerage and investment banking industry has transformed the modern American stock market into nothing more than a mechanism for transferring wealth from shareholders to management.
PETER SCHIFF
Crash Proof
Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
WARREN BUFFETT
attributed, Investopedia
The best way to start investing is by saving money. Always pay yourself first.
ELTON JOHN AGUILAR
How to Start Investing in the Philippine Stock Market
Sometimes buying early on the way down looks like being wrong, but it isn't.
SETH KLARMAN
attributed, The Motley Fool, September 20, 2012
The key to successful investing is not to eliminate mistakes, which are inevitable, but to minimize their impact on the overall investment portfolio.
SHAM M. GAD
The Business of Value Investing
Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
DONALD TRUMP
The Art of the Deal
Even the best investors are not right all the time. In a success-oriented culture this is a difficult lesson for many investors to learn. But the success of each individual trade is not as important as the profitability of the whole portfolio.
PHILIP JENKS & STEPHEN ECKETT
The Harriman House Book of Investing Rules
It cannot be stressed enough -- the key to successful investing is in taking small losses and letting your profits run.
JORDAN L. KIMMEL
Magnet Investing
The bubble, as investing phenomenon, has been well studied ever since the 17th-century tulip frenzy. Its counterpart in bear markets is not well understood.
KENNETH L. FISHER
The Making of a Market Guru: Forbes Presents 25 Years of Ken Fisher
To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.
BENJAMIN GRAHAM
The Intelligent Investor
Stock markets are important only because they allow you to buy and sell ownership interests in businesses. Everything else is just noise. I like to say that the best investors are pretend investors: those who can pretend that the stock market does not exist.
SHAM M. GAD
The Business of Value Investing
Investing is emotional. It should not be emotional, but it is your money so it is impossible to not be emotional about investing.
MARINO SPECOGNA
A Convicted Stock Manipulators Guide to Investing
Only buy something that you would be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for ten years.
WARREN BUFFETT
Business World, 1987
All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the minuses from the stocks that don't work out.
PETER LYNCH
attributed, The Motley Fool, September 20, 2012