Best 781 quotes in «investing quotes» category

Confusing speculation with investment is always a mistake.

Coronation: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.

Cryptography [without system integrity] is like investing in an armored car to carry money between a customer living in a cardboard box and a person doing business on a park bench.

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

Debt is always repaid, either by the borrower or by the lender.

Demanding immediate success invariably leads to playing the fads or fashions currently performing well rather than investing on a solid basis. A course of investment, once charted, should be given time to work out. Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

Democrats are going to proudly run on the fact that we turned the economy around. It was our policies under President Obama's leadership through the Recovery Act, through investing in the automobile industry.

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing.

Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.

Diversification is your buddy.

Diversification is something that stock brokers came up with to protect themselves, so they wouldn't get sued for making bad investment choices for clients. Henry Ford never diversified, Bill Gates didn't diversify. The way to get rich is to put your eggs in one basket, but watch that basket very carefully. And make sure you have the right basket.

Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth.

Diversification is a surrogate - and a damn poor surrogate - for knowledge, elements of control, and priceconsciousness.

Diversify your investments.

Does management resist the institutional imperative?

Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems.

Does the business have favourable long term prospects?

Does the business have a consistent operating history?

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Don't be in too much of a hurry to sell.

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

Don't sell on bad news.

Famed value investor Guy Spier has managed to write what is both a gripping memoir and a fascinating study of what it takes to succeed in investing and life. A must read!

Economic tough times are great times to be investing in the future.

Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the participant in the economic process, lacks objectivity.

Even defensive portfolios should be changed from time to time, especially if the securities purchased have an apparently excessive advance and can be replaced by issues much more reasonable priced.

Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.

Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.

Economics exists to make astrology look respectable.

Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research.

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

Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition.

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.

Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.

First come the innovators, then come the imitators, then come the idiots.

Fear and greed tend to affect one's judgement.

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

For instance with regard to tourism, that we should be able to target people who are interested in investing in the tourism sector and explain that this is the size of the market, these are the incentives in this particular area, this is the capacity, this is what is needed.

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.

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

Fund investors are confident that they can easily select superior fund managers. They are wrong.

Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.

Generally speaking, investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. Anything that improves your own talents; nobody can tax it or take it away from you. They can run up huge deficits and the dollar can become worth far less. You can have all kinds of things happen. But if you’ve got talent yourself, and you’ve maximized your talent, you’ve got a tremendous asset that can return ten-fold.

Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half of your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of it.

Getting an unsophisticated client was the golden prize. The quickest way to make money on Wall Street is to take the most sophisticated product and try to sell it to the least sophisticated client.

Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.