Market Risk Quotes

• In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Insperational, Mirrors

  13 Copy quote

• 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.

  116 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  123 Copy quote

  Show source

• Market risk is like taking a plunge into a cool pool ... a lot of people are finding out right now what their risk tolerance is.

  William J. Bernstein

  People, Tolerance, Risk

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  232 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

  Benjamin Graham

  Running, Business, Intelligent

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.179, Prabhat Prakashan

  59 Copy quote

  Show source

• Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

  Warren Buffett

  Investment Success, Enemy, Looks

  28 Copy quote

• When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

  Warren Buffett

  Ignorance, Investing Money, Interesting

  43 Copy quote

• Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing Money, Talking, Quality

  Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman's Letter, 2008.

  47 Copy quote

  Show source

• If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, War, Doe

  26 Copy quote

• Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Success, Money

  43 Copy quote

• 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

  58 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Business, War

  40 Copy quote

• 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.

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investing Money, Investment Success

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.118, John Wiley & Sons

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Business, Investing Money

  "Warren Buffett hauled before US financial crisis commission" by Graeme Wearden, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2010.

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investing, Buffets

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.151, John Wiley & Sons

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains.

  John C. Bogle

  Risk, Investing, Individual

  75 Copy quote

• It's bad enough that you have to take market risk. Only a fool takes on the additional risk of doing yet more damage by failing to diversify properly with his or her nest egg. Avoid the problem-buy a well-run index fund and own the whole market.

  William J. Bernstein

  Running, Eggs, Risk

  William J. Bernstein (2002). “The Four Pillars of Investing”, McGraw Hill Professional

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Stock market risk is ok, but not for Social Security.

  Barack Obama

  Risk, Social, Security

  4 Copy quote

• Do not trust financial market risk models. Despite the predilection of some analysts to model the financial markets using sophisticated mathematics, the markets are governed by behavioral science, not physical science.

  Seth Klarman

  Risk, Financial, Sophisticated

  16 Copy quote

• However, if one has been playing the buy-and-hold game with quality securities, one has been exposed to a substantial amount of market risk because the valuations placed on these securities have implied overly rosy scenarios prone to popular revision in times of more realistic expectation. This is one of those times, but it is my feeling that the revisions have not been severe enough, the expectations not yet realistic enough. Hence, the world's best companies largely remain overpriced in the marketplace.

  Michael Burry

  Games, Expectations, Risk

  37 Copy quote