Investors Quotes - Page 31

• The market gives you the opportunity to arbitrage what the emotional investor will pay or sell at versus the fundamental value of a company, but you've got to pull the trigger promptly without hesitating. We've disciplined ourselves mentally and prepared ourselves in terms of information, as well as relationships with brokers, to do that.

  Richard Chandler

  Emotional, Opportunity, Giving

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• I think Buffett is a better investor than me because he has a better eye toward what makes a great business. And when I find a great business I'm happy to buy it and hold it. Most businesses don't look so great to me.

  Seth Klarman

  Eye, Thinking, Looks

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• Commercial banks are very good for certain businesses, like loans and guarding other people's money. They're not great investors or entrepreneurs.

  John Gutfreund

  Commercial Banks, People, Entrepreneur

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• Once in a while, I see my fellow TV investors praise a business just because they like the entrepreneur behind it. That kind of thinking might make you feel warm and fuzzy inside - but let's get back to reality.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Reality, Thinking, Entrepreneur

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• The government - the ultimate short-term-oriented player - cannot withstand much pain in the economy or the financial markets. Bailouts and rescues are likely to occur, though not with sufficient predictability for investors to comfortably take advantage. The government will take enormous risks in such interventions, especially if the expenses can be conveniently deferred to the future. Some of the price-tag is in the form of back- stops and guarantees, whose cost is almost impossible to determine.

  Seth Klarman

  Pain, Player, Government

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• A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings.

  Amy Goodman

  Taken, Typical, Earning

  Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan (2012). “The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope”, p.328, Haymarket Books

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• Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.

  Paul Ryan

  Business, Skills, Ideas

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• If you're going to be an investor, you're going to make some investments where you don't have all the experience you need. But if you keep trying to get a little better over time, you'll start to make investments that are virtually certain to have a good outcome. The keys are discipline, hard work, and practice. It's like playing golf - you have to work on it.

  Charlie Munger

  Hard Work, Golf, Keys

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• Our standard prescription for the know-nothing investor with a long-term time horizon is a no-load index fund. I think that works better than relying on your stock broker. The people who are telling you to do something else are all being paid by commissions or fees. The result is that while index fund investing is becoming more and more popular, by and large it's not the individual investors that are doing it. It's the institutions.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Long, People

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• The normal expectancy of the average investor - for example, the pension funds of AT&T or IBM - is 6% for a long time.

  Charlie Munger

  Average, Long, Example

  Charlie Munger's comments on future returns from equities at the 2001 Wesco Financial Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 2, 2001.

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• The brilliant creative core of capitalism ... is the story the entrepreneurs and capital investors tell themselves about the future. How they intend to alter it, what they expect to gain in return, where they will raise the capital to accomplish their vision. Many of their stories turn out to be flawed or mistaken, of course, but the capacity to envision a set of future events and then act to fulfill them is a central source of capitalism's strength and its dominance of society.

  William Greider

  Entrepreneur, Creative, Vision

  William Greider (2003). “The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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• Today's consumers are eager to become loyal fans of companies that respect purposeful capitalism. They are not opposed to companies making a profit; indeed, they may even be investors in these companies - but at the core, they want more empathic, enlightened corporations that seek a balance between profit and purpose.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Balance, Fans, Purpose

  Simon Mainwaring (2011). “We First: How Brands and Consumers Use Social Media to Build a Better World”, p.49, Macmillan

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• Most investors, both institutional and individual, will find that the best way to own common stocks (shares') is through an index fund that charges minimal fees. Those following this path are sure to beat the net results (after fees and expenses) of the great majority of investment professionals.

  Warren Buffett

  Majority, Way, Path

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• When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in short, being fooled by randomness.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Investing, Return, Portfolios

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• The sillier the market's behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor.

  Benjamin Graham

  Opportunity, Investing, Behavior

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• There is always a critical job to be done. There is a sales door to be opened, a credit line to be established, a new important employee to be found, or a business technique to be learned. The venture investor must always be on call to advise, to persuade, to dissuade, to encourage, but always to help build. Then venture capital becomes true creative capital - creating growth for the company and financial success for the investing organization

  Georges Doriot

  Jobs, Doors, Organization

  Georges Frederic Doriot, Udayan Gupta (2004). “The First Venture Capitalist: Georges Doriot on Leadership, Capital, & Business Organization”, p.73, Calgary : Gondolier

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• Bond investors want growth much like equity investors, and to the extent that too much austerity leads to recession or stagnation then credit spreads widen out - even if a country can print its own currency and write its own cheques.

  Bill Gross

  Country, Writing, Growth

  "Eurozone crisis live: Brussels hints at austerity rethink as opposition mounts - as it happened" by Graeme Wearden, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2013.

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• In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well. It seems, perhaps, that the longer and longer you keep at it in this business the more and more time you have to expose your Achilles heel - wherever and whatever that might be.

  Bill Gross

  Doors, Icons, Might

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• Average investors can become experts in their own field and can pick winning stocks as effectively as Wall Street professionals by doing just a little research.

  Peter Lynch

  Wall, Winning, Average

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• Long-term investing has gotten so popular, it's easier to admit you're a crack addict than to admit you're a short-term investor.

  Peter Lynch

  Long, Cracks, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Whether a tops-down or bottoms-up investor in bonds, stocks, or private equity, the standard analysis tends to judge an investor or his firm on the basis of how the bullish or bearish aspects of the cycle were managed.

  Bill Gross

  Judging, Analysis, Aspect

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• We do all that [ represent companies], because we have a lot of research in Japanese companies, and that research educates investors around the world. It allows us to sell stocks and bonds in Japanese companies.

  Jamie Dimon

  Research, World, Company

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• NAFTA and GATT are quite similar. They both have highly protectionist elements. They're kind of a mixture of liberalization and protection designed to expand the power of transnational corporations. They're very basically investor's rights agreements. One crucial part in both is the "intellectual property right," which is a funny way of saying that corporations, like pharmaceutical companies, will have near-monopolistic rule over future technology. This now includes product as well as process rights.

  Noam Chomsky

  Technology, Rights, Agreement

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• If you were at Lehman, the same thing happened. If you were at AIG, the shareholders are getting creamed on these things. And those shareholders are not just a bunch of big shots in Wall Street. Those are pension funds, and those are investors all over the country. I wouldn't worry too much about that. Justice won't be perfect on it.

  Warren Buffett

  Country, Wall, Perfect

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• I told [a big investor in The New Yorker] - I was complaining the way writers complain.I said`[Bill Shawn] pays very well, but a lot of my pieces don't get in,' and that was true of most of the writers there.But he pays you for them, that was very nice of him. This guy didn't think it was very nice. He figured, `Oh, my God, that's more of my investment gone,' and paying money to writers for not printing them. That became, apparently, one of his weapons against Shawn when he - in the corporate skirmishes that went on. It was a bad mistake on my part.

  Nat Hentoff

  Mistake, Nice, Thinking

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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