Investors Quotes - Page 5

• When a Wall Street analyst or broker expresses optimism, investors must take it with a grain of salt.

  Seth Klarman

  Wall, Optimism, Grain Of Salt

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• The United States has the best, deepest, widest, and most transparent capital markets in the world which give you, the investor, the ability to buy and sell large amounts at very cheap prices. That is a good thing.

  Jamie Dimon

  Giving, World, United States

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• All of us would be better investors if we just made fewer decisions.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Decision, Would Be, Made

  "This Stock Market Sell-Off Looks Like The Bull Market Blip We've Been Waiting For" by Scott Minerd, www.businessinsider.com. August 7, 2014.

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• When most investors, including the pros, all agree on something, they're usually wrong.

  Carl Icahn

  Agree, Including

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• If you are able to look beyond near term trouble, you have an advantage over many professional investors

  Whitney Tilson

  Looks, Able, Trouble

  Whitney Tilson, Glenn Tongue (2009). “More Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times”, p.141, John Wiley & Sons

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• Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett". Book by Andrew Kilpatrick, 1994.

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• We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

  Warren Buffett

  Success, Money, Fear

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.166, John Wiley & Sons

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• If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.

  John C. Bogle

  Money, Loss, Investing

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• Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.

  Jim Rogers

  Investing Money, Years, Active Management

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• The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. This means ... that he should be able to justify every purchase he makes and each price he pays by impersonal, objective reasoning that satisfies him that he is getting more than his money's worth for his purchase.

  Benjamin Graham

  Money, Mean, Investing

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• Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

  Paul Samuelson

  Money, Vegas, Saving

  "Paul Samuelson's Words of Wisdom" by Larry Swedroe, www.cbsnews.com. December 17, 2009.

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• The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

  Philip Arthur Fisher

  Money, Insightful, Saving

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• You're generally better off sticking with what you know.

  Donald Trump

  Investing Money, Entrepreneur, Financial

  "10 Things I Learned About Donald Trump in ‘The Art of the Deal’" by Josh Barro, www.nytimes.com. September 22, 2015.

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• When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?

  Rene Rivkin

  Money, Investing, Buying

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Business, War

  "The Three Essential Warren Buffett Quotes To Live By" by James Berman, www.forbes.com. April 20, 2014.

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• I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

  Warren Buffett

  Money, Years, Greatest Wealth

  "The Big Lie Exposed: The Future is Not Predictable" by Jeff Schweitzer, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2009.

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• Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

  Donald Trump

  Motivational, Money, Business

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.28, Ballantine Books

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• Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

  Warren Buffett

  Funny, Success, Money

  "Rules That Warren Buffett Lives By". Yahoo Finance, February 23, 2010.

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• It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, War, Investing Money

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.150, John Wiley & Sons

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• All investors must come to terms with the relentless continuity of the investment process.

  Seth Klarman

  Investment, Relentless, Process

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• What an investor needs is the ability to correctly evaluate selected businesses. Note that word “selected”: You don't have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital.

  Warren Buffett

  Circles, Knowing, Important

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• It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Motivational, Risk, Investment

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• It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

  Warren Buffett

  Funny, Money, Business

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• You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.

  Peter Lynch

  Investing, Investment, Decline

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• Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.

  Peter Lynch

  Intelligent, Investing, Tickets

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