Investing Quotes - Page 12

• Timing is everything in this markets.

  Daniel S. Loeb

  Timing, Financial, Timing Is Everything

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• The idea of excessive diversification is madness. Wide diversification, which necessarily includes investment in mediocre businesses, only guarantees ordinary results.

  Charlie Munger

  Ideas, Ordinary, Guarantees

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• A true luxury is a reward for investing in and developing a real asset.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Real, Luxury, Rewards

  Robert Kiyosaki (2015). “Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!”, p.115, Robert Kiyosaki

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• Money is ultimately not enough compensation for investing your time and energy: there has to be a sense of purpose, meaning and fulfillment.

  Dan Miller

  Energy, Investing Your Time, Purpose

  Dan Miller (2007). “48 Days to the Work You Love”, p.87, B&H Publishing Group

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• Assuming that the future is like the past, you can outperform 80 percent of your fellow investors over the next several decades by investing in an index fund-and doing nothing else. But acquire the discipline to do something even better: become a long-term index fund investor.

  Mark Hulbert

  Past, Discipline, Long

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• The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in futility).

  George Soros

  Real, Exercise, World

  George Soros (1994). “The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market”, p.20, John Wiley & Sons

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• Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Giving, Way, Should

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.26, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Long-term investing has gotten so popular, it's easier to admit you're a crack addict than to admit you're a short-term investor.

  Peter Lynch

  Long, Cracks, Easier

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• On average, 90 percent of the variability of returns and 100 percent of the absolute level of return is explained by asset allocation.

  Roger G. Ibbotson

  Average, Levels, Return

  "Does Asset Allocation Policy Explain 40%, 90% or 100% of Performance?". Study by Roger G. Ibbotson and Paul D. Kaplan, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1998, revised April 1999.

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• It is not the return on my investment that I am concerned about; it's the return of my investment

  Will Rogers

  Return, Investment, Concerned

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• Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own long-term national interests.

  Liya Kebede

  Rights, Long, Generations

  "Let’s Make Mother’s Day a Global Reality" by Liya Kebede, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2009.

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• Quinn's First Law of Investing is never to buy anything whose price you can't follow in the newspapers. An investment without a public marketplace attracts the fabulists the way picnics attract ants. Stock brokers and financial planners can tell you anything they want, because no one really knows what's true. The First Corollary to Quinn's First Law states that, even when the price is in the newspapers, you shouldn't buy anything too complex to explain to the average 12-year-old.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Money, Average, Years

  Jane Bryant Quinn (1997). “Making the Most of Your Money”, p.789, Simon and Schuster

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• We've got to control our own energy. Now, not only oil and natural gas, which we've been investing in; but also, we've got to make sure we're building the energy source of the future, not just thinking about next year, but ten years from now, 20 years from now. That's why we've invested in solar and wind and biofuels, energy efficient cars.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Years, Wind

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Investing and connecting are the key factors in turning any intention into reality.

  Rhonda Britten

  Reality, Keys, Intention

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• Investing in Chicago property is just Wandas first move into the U.S. real estate market.

  Wang Jianlin

  Real, Moving, Chicago

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• Speculators often prosper through ignorance; it is a cliché that in a roaring bull market knowledge is superfluous and experience is a handicap. But the typical experience of the speculator is one of temporary profit and ultimate loss

  Benjamin Graham

  Ignorance, Loss, Typical

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• Always buy your straw hats in the Winter

  Benjamin Graham

  Winter, Hats, Straws

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• Our government is committed to investing in world-class research networks such as GlycoNet, which will develop new drugs and vaccines to fight diseases that affect millions of Canadians. These investments will improve our quality of life and contribute to the creation of a stronger, more innovative economy and a more prosperous Canada.

  Rona Ambrose

  Fighting, Class, Vaccines

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• To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit--investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm to create wealth and value.

  William J. Clinton

  America, Firsts, Twenties

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• It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Men, Rich, Poor

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• There is a secret to investing that cuts a path directly to the profits that you're looking for. The secret is simplicity. The more elementary your investment style, the more confident you can be of making money in the long run.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Running, Money, Cutting

  Jane Bryant Quinn (2009). “Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy”, p.691, Simon and Schuster

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• What's both fascinating and challenging about investing is that the changing nature of business and finance means you can never have it all figured out.

  Whitney Tilson

  Mean, Challenges, Finance

  Whitney Tilson, Glenn Tongue (2009). “More Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times”, p.139, John Wiley & Sons

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• It is the long-term investor...who will in practice come in for the most criticism... For it is the essence of his behavior that he should be eccentric, unconventional, and rash in the eyes of average opinion

  John Maynard Keynes

  Eye, Average, Essence

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• Sound investing can make you very wealthy if you're not in too big a hurry

  Warren Buffett

  Sound, Bigs, Wealthy

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• There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it

  Andrew Carnegie

  Men, Made, Fortune

  Andrew Carnegie (1992). “The Andrew Carnegie reader”, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

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