Investors Quotes

• The single greatest edge an investor can have is a long-term orientation.

  Seth Klarman

  Long, Investing, Term

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• Most investors say "Don't take risks." The rich investor takes risks.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Risk, Financial, Rich

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• By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing, Investment, Fund

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• Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing

  Jessica Livingston

  People, Investing, Want

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• The successful investor is usually an individual who is inherently interested in business problems.

  Philip Arthur Fisher

  Successful, Investing, Problem

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• Value investors should completely exit a security by the time it reaches full value; owning overvalued securities is the realm of speculators.

  Seth Klarman

  Exit, Should, Realms

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• How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.

  Robert G. Allen

  Money, Investing Your Time, Saving

  Robert G. Allen (2006). “Creating Wealth: Retire in Ten Years Using Allen's Seven Principles of Wealth”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• If you are able to look beyond near term trouble, you have an advantage over many professional investors

  Whitney Tilson

  Looks, Able, Trouble

  Whitney Tilson, Glenn Tongue (2009). “More Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times”, p.141, John Wiley & Sons

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• The trick of successful investors is to sell when they want to, not when they have to.

  Seth Klarman

  Successful, Want, Tricks

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• Most investors are obsessed with the market size today and they don't think about how the market is going to evolve.

  Sam Altman

  Thinking, Today, Size

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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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• Most investors want to do today what they should have done yesterday.

  Lawrence Summers

  Should Have, Yesterday, Investing

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• In our view, though, investment students need only two well-taught courses-How to Value a Business, and How to Think about Market Prices. Your goal as an investor should simply be to purchase, at a rational price, a part interest in an easily-understandable business who's earnings are virtually certain to be materially higher five, ten and twenty years from now.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Two, Views

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.160, John Wiley & Sons

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• A pin lies in wait for every bubble. And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons: First, many in Wall Street (a community in which quality control is not prized) will sell investors anything they will buy. Second, speculation is most dangerous when it looks easiest.

  Warren Buffett

  Wall, Lying, Knowledge

  Chairman's Letter, www.berkshirehathaway.com. February 28, 2001.

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• If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.

  George Soros

  Fun, Investing Money, Boring

  "The Winning Investment Habits of Warren Buffett & George Soros". Book by Mark Tier, 2006.

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• Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

  Warren Buffett

  Wall, Investing Money, People

  "Student to CEO" by Simon Dixon. Ecademy Press, p. 125, 2011.

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• An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Encouraging, Education, Money

  Jack Vincent, Benjamin Franklin (2010). “Benjamin Franklin's the Way to Wealth”, p.91, The Way to Wealth

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• Our favorite holding period is forever.

  Warren Buffett

  Funny Inspirational, Business, War

  Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett (2013). “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)”, p.63, Carolina Academic Press

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• To enjoy a reasonable chance for continued better than average results, the investor must follow policies which are (1) inherently sound and promising, and (2) not popular on Wall Street.

  Benjamin Graham

  Wall, Average, Sound

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• Individual investors predictably flock to stocks in companies that are in the news.

  Daniel Kahneman

  News, Individual, Flocks

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• Investors should be skeptical of history-based models. Constructed by a nerdy-sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the like, these models tend to look impressive. Too often, though, investors forget to examine the assumptions behind the models. Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

  Warren Buffett

  Looks, Esoteric, Geek

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• Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of even an outstanding company to catch up with the price they paid.

  Warren Buffett

  Needs, Investing, May

  "7 Warren Buffett Quotes For Active Investors". www.seeitmarket.com. November 26, 2014.

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• The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.

  Benjamin Graham

  Loss, Quality, Investing

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• The intelligent investor is likely to need considerable will power to keep from following the crowd.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Needs, Following The Crowd

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.29, Prabhat Prakashan

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• A stock market decline is as routine as a January blizzard in Colorado. If you're prepared, it can't hurt you. A decline is a great opportunity to pick up the bargains left behind by investors who are fleeing the storm in panic.

  Peter Lynch

  Hurt, Opportunity, Storm

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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