Investors Quotes - Page 29

• "Average" isn't so hot at the race track given those steep track takes. "Average" is pretty decent for stocks, something like 6 percent above the inflation rate. For a buy-and -hold investor, commissions and taxes are small.

  William Poundstone

  Race, Average, Track

  "Fortune's Formula". Part Three, Arbitrage, This Is Not the Time To Buy Stocks, p. 134. Book by William Poundstone, 2005.

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• The engine driving the Kelly system is the "law of large numbers." In a 1713 treatise on probability, Swiss mathematician Jakob Bernoulli propounded a law that has been misunderstood by gamblers (and investors) ever since.

  William Poundstone

  Law, Numbers, Misunderstood

  William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.102, Macmillan

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• I would suggest to my honourable Friend that the foreign investor is at least as discouraged by high national debt for that, as all example shows, is the surest precursor of high taxation.

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Example, Taxation, Debt

  Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 213), March 24, 1966.

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• Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors' rating screens. A country becomes a product to be rated for its obedience to paying of deficits and debts.

  B. W. Powe

  Country, Fire, Greed

  "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by Bruce W. Powe, 2006.

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• The Treasury plan is a disgrace: a bailout of reckless bankers, lenders and investors that provides little direct debt relief to borrowers and financially stressed households and that will come at a very high cost to the US taxpayer. And the plan does nothing to resolve the severe stress in money markets and interbank markets that are now close to a systemic meltdown.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Stress, Littles, Bankers

  "Not so much bail-out as rip-off". www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2008.

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• Republicans want to punish work and reward wealth; hence the high payroll tax and the low dividend tax. Said one Bush economic adviser, if we can't help wealthy investors and screw working people, what's the point in being a Republican?

  Paul Begala

  Payroll Tax, People, Want

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• When investors, particularly investment bankers, talk about splitting up companies, there's a lot of discussion about multiple expansion, and the reality is multiple expansion is an outcome, not a strategy.

  Irene Rosenfeld

  Reality, Bankers, Expansion

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• It's a fact: stock investors sometimes lose money on their way to wealth. Get over it.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Way, Facts, Sometimes

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• Apple is a wonderful company for its customers and investors. So, too, Pixar. (NeXT, not so much...) But Apple is also an engine of misery for its subcontracted Chinese workers.

  Eric Alterman

  Apples, Chinese, Next

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• If your investments are limited to this earth, you are the world's worst investor.

  John Hagee

  World, Earth, Investment

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• The most popular systems are those that apply a disciplined systematic technique, .. The hardest part for investors is finding a system that fits their lifestyle, and that is a critically important component.

  William McKinley

  Discipline, Important, Technique

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• You have a class of investors and you have a class of speculators. The speculators historically haven't been big enough to cause the investors to doubt the long-term vision of stock.

  Jim Cramer

  Class, Long, Doubt

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• If we're talking about buying exchanges abroad, we have to have global securities standards, as we have global banking regulations. I'm talking about margins. Now, the United States has certain margin requirements that are not the same in London. Investors and hedge funds that want to borrow more money against securities ? if they can't in the U.S., they go abroad. That could add additional risks to the global economy.

  Muriel Siebert

  Talking, Risk, United States

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• Damn inflation, full speed ahead,' Greenspan has said in both action and word. I think an investor should believe him and invest accordingly.

  Bill Gross

  Believe, Thinking, Action

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• I think the first word of caution is; It's not the kind of market where you need to jump in immediately on these downs. We've trained investors so much over the past decade and a half: Buy the dip, buy the dip.

  Liz Miller

  Past, Thinking, Needs

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• Bank One has got one of the best credit card divisions, ... The perception of investors is that financial services stocks are affected by interest rates and they're not.

  David Dreman

  Perception, Cards, Division

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• Practical investors usually learn their problem is finding enough outstanding investments, rather than choosing among too many.

  Philip Arthur Fisher

  Investing, Problem, Investment

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• GE is falling under the same cloud of the market as a whole. Investors are not focused on the positives that are occurring like corporate profitability.

  James Fisher

  Fall, Clouds, Corporate

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• Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.

  Warren Buffett

  Temptation, Investing, Buffets

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• The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.

  Alan Greenspan

  Successful, Coins, Tossers

  Alan Greenspan (2008). “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World”, p.465, Penguin

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• Near the top of the market, investors are extraordinarily optimistic because they've seen mostly higher prices for a year or two. The sell-offs witnessed during that span were usually brief. Even when they were severe, the market bounced back quickly and always rose to loftier levels. At the top, optimism is king, speculation is running wild, stocks carry high price/earnings ratios, and liquidity has evaporated. A small rise in interest rates can easily be the catalyst for triggering a bear market at that point.

  Martin Zweig

  Running, Kings, Optimistic

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• If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative that boards of directors be so constituted as to adequately represent the interests and inspire the complete confidence of investors of moderate substance.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspire, Directors, United States

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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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• Successful investors must temper the arrogance of taking a stand with a large dose of humility, accepting that despite their efforts and care, they may in fact be wrong.

  Seth Klarman

  Humility, Successful, Effort

  "When I Met the Legends of Investing - Part 4". Interview with Vishal Khandelwal, www.safalniveshak.com. June 8, 2015.

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• Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps.

  Fred Wilson

  Caring, Entrepreneur, Supportive

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