Investors Quotes - Page 22

• There are two kinds of investors, be thay large or small: those who don't know where the market is headed, and those who don't know that they don't know.

  William J. Bernstein

  Two, Kind, Investment

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• Your goal, as a creative investor, is to launch your ship into financial orbit ... and then put it on automatic pilot.

  Robert G. Allen

  Goal, Creative, Orbit

  Robert G. Allen (2006). “Creating Wealth: Retire in Ten Years Using Allen's Seven Principles of Wealth”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices, ... This is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

  Alan Greenspan

  Risk, Aftermath, Debt

  "Greenspan Chides Investors". Speech at a Fed symposium, www.nytimes.com. August 27, 2005.

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• It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.

  Ben Casnocha

  School, Years, Class

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• The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Swings, Optimism

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• Investors should remember that their scorecard is not computed using Olympic-diving methods: Degree-of-difficulty doesn't count. If you are right about a business whose value is largely dependent on a single key factor that is both easy to understand and enduring, the payoff is the same as if you had correctly analyzed an investment alternative characterized by many constantly shifting and complex variables.

  Warren Buffett

  Keys, Degrees, Alternatives

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

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• As long as you've got serious investors who wish to put money into football, I applaud. It proves that football is attractive. What upsets me, what I find scandalous is when clubs accept fools.

  Sepp Blatter

  Football, Long, Upset

  "Sepp Blatter interview: The FIFA president on Qatar, Brazil and billionaire owners". Interview with Philippe Auclair, www.mirror.co.uk. September 22, 2013.

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• Investor confidence in Adani is fairly high, and most of our investors are long-term investors.

  Gautam Adani

  Long, Term, Long Term

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• The courage to press on regardless - regardless of whether we face calm seas or rough seas, and especially when the market storms howl around us - is the quintessential attribute of the successful investor.

  John C. Bogle

  Successful, Sea, Storm

  "A Tale of Two Markets". Speech at the Trinity University Policymaker Breakfast Series, www.vanguard.com. April 16, 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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• 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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• 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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• You shouldn't feel sorry for the lifestyle you haven't tasted, but for the one you are about to lose

  Thucydides

  Sorry, Lifestyle, Modern

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• Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes

  Thucydides

  Luck, Reason, Modern

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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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• I see, therefore, the rentier aspect of capitalism as a transitional phase which will disappear when it has done its work. And with the disappearance of its rentier aspect much else in it besides will suffer a sea-change. It will be, moreover, a great advantage of the order of events which I am advocating, that the euthanasia of the rentier, of the functionless investor, will be nothing sudden, merely a gradual but prolonged continuance of what we have seen recently in Great Britain, and will need no revolution.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Wisdom, Order, Sea

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.345, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don't desire to exhaustive thinking

  Thucydides

  Thinking, People, Desire

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• Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris

  Thucydides

  Opportunity, Deeds, Wealth

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• My view is that an investor is better off knowing a lot about a few investments than knowing a little about each of a great many holdings. One's very best idea's are likely to generate higher returns for a given level of risk than one's hundredth or thousandth best idea.

  Seth Klarman

  Views, Ideas, Knowing

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• I figured maybe I had some talent as an investor… since it seemed like I was only a half-assed entrepreneur.

  Dave McClure

  Entrepreneur, Half, Talent

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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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• You have to make the shift from being a consumer in the economy to becoming an owner-and you do it by becoming an investor.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Becoming, Economy

  Tony Robbins (2014). “MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• 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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