Investing Quotes

• Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

  Warren Buffett

  Money, Business, Dollars

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". 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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• The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy.

  John Templeton

  Pessimism, Investment, Traders

  "Sir John Templeton" by Martin Adeney, www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2008.

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• At heart, "uncertainty" and "investing" are synonyms.

  Benjamin Graham

  Heart, Synonym, Uncertainty

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.212, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Investing is simple, but not easy.

  Warren Buffett

  Money, Simple, Easy

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• If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.

  Dick Vermeil

  Inspirational, Sports, Hurt

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• Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.

  Benjamin Graham

  Successful, Risk, Avoiding

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• There are two kinds of people who lose money: those who know nothing and those who know everything.

  Henry Kaufman

  Two, People, Kind

  "Occupy hedge funds: when private investment funds and the public collide" by Helaine Olen, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2013.

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

  Carlos Slim

  Opportunity, Missing

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• We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

  Warren Buffett

  Intelligent, Successful Investing, Smarter

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• People don't like the idea of thinking long term. Many are desperately seeking short term answers because they have money problems to be solved today.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Thinking, Ideas, Long

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• Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

  Warren Buffett

  Baby, Successful, Investing Money

  "10 billionaires give their best advice on getting - and staying - rich" by Autumn Rose, www.businessinsider.com. April 20, 2016.

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• The investor's chief problem - and even his worst enemy - is likely to be himself.

  Benjamin Graham

  Money, Worst Enemy, Greed

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Games are won by players who focus on the playing field -- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.

  Warren Buffett

  Eye, Player, Games

  "Warren Buffett's 5 Rules For Investing" by Sam Ro, www.businessinsider.com. February 24, 2014.

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• The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.

  Francois Guizot

  World, Pessimist, Optimist

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• Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Happiness, Goal, World

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• Focus on return on equity, not earnings per share.

  Warren Buffett

  Focus, Earning, Return

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• I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Spending

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• The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

  Warren Buffett

  War, Past, Investing Money

  "The Security I Like Best". Warren Buffett, The Commercial and Financial Chronicle (December 6, 1951), as quoted in "5 Tips From Warren Buffett Every Investor Should Take to Heart" by Stacy Rapacon, grow.acorns.com. August 24, 2017.

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• Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future.

  Warren Buffett

  More Money

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• Most successful investors, in fact, do nothing most of the time.

  Jim Rogers

  Funny, Success, Humorous

  Jim Rogers (2013). “Street Smarts: Adventures on the Road and in the Markets”, p.58, Crown Business

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• 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.

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

  Joel Greenblatt

  Secret, Pay, Figures

  Joel Greenblatt (2011). “The Big Secret for the Small Investor: A New Route to Long-Term Investment Success”, p.20, John Wiley & Sons

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• Thousands of people have tried, and the evidence is clear: The more you trade, the less you keep.

  Benjamin Graham

  People, Evidence, Clear

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.11, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

  Warren Buffett

  Inspirational, Life, Honesty

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