Investment Quotes - Page 27

• Reading is the best return on investment. You have to live your entire life in order to know one life. But with reading you can know 1000s of people's lives for almost no cost. What a great return!

  James Altucher

  Reading, Order, People

  "The ultimate cheat sheet for what you should do with all of your money" by James Altucher, www.businessinsider.com. April 6, 2014.

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• If partisanship makes us abandon intellectual honesty, if we oppose what our opponents say or do simply because they are the ones saying or doing it, we become mere political short-sellers, hoping for bad news because it's good for our ideological investment.

  Kurt Andersen

  Honesty, Political, Intellectual

  "When Good News Feels Bad". archive.frontpagemag.com. February 17, 2005.

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• We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out.

  Julian Huxley

  Money, Size, Way

  "Philosophic Ants". "The Borzoi Reader", edited by Carl Van Doren, p. 548, 1936.

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• Long-term investment success is almost totally a function of how one emotionally handles declines in the equity market, as opposed to how one's portfolio handles them.

  Nick Murray

  Investment Success, Long, Portfolios

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• Index investing is an investment strategy that Walter Mitty would love. It takes very little investment knowledge, no skill, practically no time or effort-and outperforms about 80 percent of all investors.

  Michael LeBoeuf

  Skills, Effort, Investing

  Taylor Larimore, Mel Lindauer, Michael LeBoeuf (2014). “The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing”, p.109, John Wiley & Sons

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• Real estate is the best investment in the world because it is the only thing they're not making any more.

  Will Rogers

  Real, World, Estates

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• So Merrill Lynch has launched its first campaign in years to advertise the accomplishments of its investment banking business. The ads feature things like Merrill's recapitalization of Sierra Pacific. I guess including "helping Enron achieve its earnings goals in 1999" might be a little awkward given that Merrill Lynch bankers are currently on trial in Houston for that "accomplishment."

  Bethany McLean

  Years, Accomplishment, Goal

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• Creating a positive future begins in human conversation. The simplest and most powerful investment any member of a community or an organisation can make is to begin with other people as though the answers mattered.

  William Greider

  Powerful, Creating, People

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• If the investor is uneducated, anything he or she invests in will be risky. So it's not the investment that is risky. It's the investor.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Ifs, Investors, Uneducated

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• Individual and institutional investors alike frequently demonstrate an inability to make long-term investment decisions based on business fundamentals.

  Seth Klarman

  Long, Decision, Fundamentals

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• A gym for the soul is a place where personal investment is required and the return is real.

  Anne Bogart

  Real, Soul, Return

  Anne Bogart (2014). “What's the Story: Essays about Art, Theater and Storytelling”, p.18, Routledge

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• LTCM lost money when Russia defaulted on a certain class of bonds, and then they had other investments like on the spread between two different kinds of shares of Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company. Now that seems completely unrelated to Russian bonds. But they were related because other hedge funds saw similar discrepancies and they were all making similar bets.

  Richard Thaler

  Russia, Class, Two

  "Big Think Interview With Richard Thaler". bigthink.com. June 19, 2009.

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• Art is not an investment. Art is something you buy because you are financially solvent enough to give yourself a pleasure of living with great works rather than having to just see them in museums. People who are buying art at the top of the market as an investment are foolish.

  Arne Glimcher

  Art, Museums, People

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

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• Knowledge of the investment is most profitable

  Benjamin Franklin

  Profitable

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• 'Crowd folly', the tendency of humans, under some circumstances, to resemble lemmings, explains much foolish thinking of brilliant men and much foolish behavior - like investment management practices of many foundations represented here today. It is sad that today each institutional investor apparently fears most of all that its investment practices will be different from practices of the rest of the crowd.

  Charlie Munger

  Men, Thinking, Practice

  "Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor". Book by Tren Griffin, September 15, 2015.

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• It takes 150 years to build an investment bank and only five minutes to convince you to sell me preferred stock in it at a 10% interest rate.

  Warren Buffett

  Years, Minutes, Interest

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• Avoiding where others go wrong is an important step in achieving investment success. In fact, it almost assures it.

  Seth Klarman

  Investment Success, Important, Facts

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• Great investments don't just knock on the door and say "buy me".

  Seth Klarman

  Doors

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• I wait until an investment idea is so good, it hits me over the head like an anvil.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Ideas, Waiting, Anvils

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• It is crucial in a sound investment process to search a mile wide than a mile deep with they find something - also.. never stop digging for information.

  Seth Klarman

  Sound, Digging, Information

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• We've also had comments in relation to Donald Trump's comments in respect of investment in Scotland- the UK government has never given Mr Trump awards or appointments.

  James Brokenshire

  Awards, Government, Scotland

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• [Donald] Trump has threatened to withhold investment in Scotland in response to the calls to ban him from the UK. Over the years Mr Trump has made a number of statements about the different scale of his investment in the UK and his willingness to maintain them.

  James Brokenshire

  Numbers, Years, Scotland

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• When you consider the sheer magnitude of investable equities to choose from in the world's emerging markets, you realize that finding one that looks attractive enough to warrant investing your faith and assets in is as formidable a task as finding a needle in a haystack. Fortunately, researching investment opportunities is a lot more interesting than digging for needles in haystacks.

  Mark Mobius

  Opportunity, Interesting, Digging

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• Social Security is a widely popular program because the individual has been deceived by the Statist to believe that the government has been prudently and diligently managing his accumulated pension investment in his Social Security account, which he presumes to be funded by his own payroll taxes.

  Mark Levin

  Believe, Government, Payroll Tax

  Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• Building and repairing relationships are long-term investments.

  Stephen Covey

  Long, Building, Term

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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