Investing Quotes - Page 24

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

  Rhonda Britten

  Reality, Keys, Intention

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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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• In ourselves, rather than in material nature, lie the true source and life of the beautiful. The human soul is the sun which diffuses light on every side, investing creation with its lovely hues, and calling forth the poetic element that lies hidden in every existing thing.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Beauty, Beautiful, Lying

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• If you knew what was going to happen in the economy, you still wouldn't necessarily know what was going to happen in the stock market.

  Warren Buffett

  Economy, Stills, Happens

  "What Warren thinks". Interview with Nicholas Varchaver, archive.fortune.com. April 14, 2008.

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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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• 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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• You must never delude yourself into thinking that you're investing when you're speculating.

  Benjamin Graham

  Thinking

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.46, Harper Collins

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• When a possibility is unfamiliar to us, we do not even think about it.

  Nate Silver

  Thinking, Possibility, Unfamiliar

  Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.287, Penguin

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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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• 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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• The U. S. is headed toward a period of business depression... beginning within the next two years, which may exceed that which preceded the War. ... The only thing that will save us is a new gold policy or the discovery of a new process or additional gold fields. If the fall [of gold production] is not prevented by design or accident we shall throttle business, wringing out all profits and experiencing all the evils of deflation.

  Irving Fisher

  War, Fall, Discovery

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• one of the greatest deterrents to successful investing is the three-letter word ego.

  Venita VanCaspel

  Money, Successful, Ego

  Venita VanCaspel (1983). “The power of money dynamics”, Simon & Schuster

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• The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Slumps, Austerity, Treasury

  John Maynard Keynes (1982). “Activities 1931-1939: world crises and policies in Britain and America”

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• A point must be repeated: only the pathological weakness of the financial memory...allows us to believe that the modern experience of....debt...is in any way a new phenomenon.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Memories, Believe, Weakness

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• Successful tape reading is a study of Force; it requires ability to judge which side has the greatest pulling power and one must have the courage to go with that side.

  Richard Wyckoff

  Reading, Successful, Judging

  Richard Wyckoff (2006). “Studies in Tape Reading”, p.95, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Those who had been riding the upward wave decide now is the time to get out. Those who thought the increase would be forever find their illusion destroyed abruptly, and they, also, respond to the newly revealed reality by selling or trying to sell. And thus the rule, supported by the experience of centuries: the speculative episode always ends not with a whimper but with a bang.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Reality, Forever, Trying

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1994). “A Short History of Financial Euphoria”, p.11, Penguin

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• Almost every aspect of its (Federal Reserve) history should be approached with a discriminating disregard for what is commonly taught or believed.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Taught, Should, Disregard

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• If we had a truth-in Government act comparable to the truth-in-advertising law, every note issued by the Treasury would be obliged to include a sentence stating: This note will be redeemed with the proceeds from an identical note which will be sold to the public when this one comes due.

  Walter Wriston

  Government, Law, Would Be

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• When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

  Hermann Hesse

  Suffering, Enough

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• The best approach here, if at all possible, is to use supervisory and regulatory methods to restrain undue risk-taking and to make sure the system is resilient in case an asset-price bubble bursts in the future.

  Ben Bernanke

  Risk, Use, Resilient

  "U.S. Fed boosts bank scrutiny" by Craig Torres and Michael McKee, www.nationalpost.com. November 20, 2009.

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• Time and space are not conditions of existence, time and space is a model for thinking

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Space, Existence

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• Once public opinion is convinced that the increase in the quantity of money will continue and never come to an end, and that consequently the prices of all commodities will not cease to rise, everybody becomes eager to buy as much as possible and restrict his cash holdings to minimum size... If the credit expansion is not stopped in time, the boom turns to crack-up boom: the flight into real values begins, and the whole monetary system founders.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Real, Public Opinion, Cracks

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• The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the passive group - the "know-nothings" - must win.

  Warren Buffett

  Mean, Winning, Groups

  "Berkshire’s Corporate Performance vs. the S&P 500". "2007 Chairman’s letter" by Warren Buffett, Fanciful Figures – How Public Companies Juice Earnings, p.18, www.berkshirehathaway.com. February, 2008.

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• Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of economic freedom. Where there is no market economy, the best-intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Government, Law

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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