Investors Quotes - Page 13

• Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.

  Benjamin Graham

  Growth, Investing, Profit

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Investors, monarchies, and parliamentarians devised methods to control the processes of wealth accumulation and the power that came with it, but the ideology behind gold fever mobilized settlers to cross the Atlantic to an unknown fate. Subjugating entire societies and civilizations, enslaving whole countries, and slaughtering people village by village did not seem too high a price to pay, nor did it appear inhumane. The systems of colonization were modern and rational, but its ideological basis was madness.

  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  Country, Fate, Civilization

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• We upgrade URZ to a Buy; we see an entry opportunity with investors.

  David Talbot

  Opportunity, Entry

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• There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.

  Yuri Milner

  Momentum, Internet, Social

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• I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life Zuckerberg has been making $1 billion for investors.

  Yuri Milner

  Years, Zuckerberg, Entrepreneur

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• One must give up the fantasy of a perspicacious gunslinger/investor
  outwitting the market.

  John Allen Paulos

  Giving Up, Fantasy, Outwitting

  John Allen Paulos (2007). “A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market”, p.60, Basic Books

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• When I read in Fortune magazine that Warren Buffet, the billionaire investor and one of the world's richest men, was investing in a direct sales (network marketing) company, I decided I was missing something.

  David Bach

  Men, Missing, Marketing

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• We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and
  businessmen. Thirty years ago, no one could have foreseen the huge expansion of the Vietnam War, wage and price controls, two oil shocks, the resignation of a president, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a one-day drop in the Dow of 508 points, or treasury bill yields fluctuating between 2.8% and 17.4%.

  Warren Buffett

  War, Yield, Years

  Letter To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. March 7, 1995.

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• I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope.

  Story Musgrave

  Letting Go, Long, Telescopes

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• There are substantial rewards for adopting a regular routine of investing and following it no matter what, and additional rewards for buying more shares when most investors are scared into selling.

  Peter Lynch

  Routine, Investing, Rewards

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• Most investors would be better off in an index fund.

  Peter Lynch

  Would Be, Investing, Active Management

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• Investors have no reason to feel bearish. True value investors are glad the markets are down.

  Irving Kahn

  Reason, Feels, Glad

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• Any time we would talk to another VC, our investors would talk him out of it: 'This is not a good company'... So we were really stuck with our existing investors for the next round.

  Sabeer Bhatia

  Entrepreneur, Next, Good Company

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• Because we weren't having success finding a CEO, our investors insisted that we hire these managers a temporary CEO and CFO. That didn't go great.

  Tim Brady

  Cfo, Entrepreneur, Ceo

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• At SGI board meetings... Jim Clark's face would get red and he'd start shouting that an investor and board member had cheated him and his engineers.

  Michael Lewis

  Entrepreneur, Boards, Red

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• There’s a virtuous cycle when people have to defend challenges to their ideas. Any gaps in thinking or analysis become clear pretty quickly when smart people ask good, logical questions. You can’t be a good value investor without being an independent thinker – you’re seeing valuations that the market is not appreciating. But it’s critical that you understand why the market isn’t seeing the value you do. The back and forth that goes on in the investment process helps you get at that.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Smart, Independent, Thinking

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• Timidity prompted by past failures causes investors to miss the most important bull markets.

  Walter Schloss

  Past, Missing, Important

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• Stock prices aren't real things. They're just froth on a wave. The wave is the only real thing, which investors forget when they're watching the ticket slither by.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Real, Tickets, Forget

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• Yes, the investor is often his own worst enemy. Yes, the marketing colossus known as the mutual fund industry provides the weaponry which enables investors to indulge their suicidal instincts. No, the fund industry was hardly an innocent bystander in the market boom and the subsequent carnage. "We have met the enemy and he is us"... all of us.

  John C. Bogle

  Suicidal, Bystanders, Worst Enemy

  "The Stock Market Universe: Stars, Comets, and the Sun". Speech to Financial Analysts of Philadelphia, www.vanguard.com. February 15, 2001.

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• The principal role of the mutual fund is to serve its investors.

  John C. Bogle

  Roles, Mutual Fund, Principal

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• My name is Wendell Potter and for 20 years I worked as a senior executive at health insurance companies, and I saw how they confuse their customers and dump the sick -- all so they can satisfy their Wall Street investors.

  Wendell Potter

  Senior, Wall, Years

  "Wendell Potter on “Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans”". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. November 16, 2010.

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• Entrepreneursh ip is a great leveller, since having the benefit of a wealthy background or a generous investor isn't always an advantage. The wonderful thing is that money is not the sole currency when it comes to starting a business; drive, determination, passion and hard work are all free and more valuable than a pot of cash.

  Richard Branson

  Determination, Hard Work, Passion

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• Boards of directors are allowed to work together, so are banks and investors and corporations in alliances with one another and with powerful states. That’s just fine. It’s just the poor who aren’t supposed to cooperate.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Working Together, Directors

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “How the World Works”, p.224, Soft Skull Press

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• The purchase of a bargain issue presupposes that the market's current appraisal is wrong, or at least that the buyer's idea of value is more likely to be right than the market's. In this process the investor sets his judgement against that of the market. To some this may seem arrogant or foolhardy.

  Benjamin Graham

  Ideas, Issues, Judgement

  "The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing". Book by Benjamin Graham. Chapter II, The Investor and Stock-Market Fluctuations, p. 38, 1949.

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• What I'm trying to say is that for the average investor, what I would encourage them to do is to understand there's inflation and growth - it can go higher and lower - and to have four different portfolios essentially that make up your total portfolio that gets you balanced.

  Ray Dalio

  Average, Growth, Trying

  Speech at the Corporate Program's CEO Speaker Series, www.cfr.org. September 12, 2012.

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