Investors Quotes - Page 7

• An investor calculates what a stock is worth, based on the value of its businesses.

  Benjamin Graham

  Investing, Values

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.36, 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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• 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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• The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Average, Return, Timing

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• Value investors have to be patient and disciplined, but what I really think is you need not to be greedy. If you're greedy and you leverage, you blow up. Almost every financial blow up is because of leverage.

  Seth Klarman

  Blow, Thinking, Needs

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• Fraud will always exist. Enforcement of anti-fraud laws is a useful deterrent, but in the end there's no substitute for investor vigilance. Government regulations provide a false sense of security - and that's worth less than no sense of security at all.

  John Stossel

  Government, Law, Regulation

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• The inflow of capital from the developed countries is the prerequisite for the establishment of economic dependence. This inflow takes various forms: loans granted on onerous terms; investments that place a given country in the power of the investors; almost total technological subordination of the dependent country to the developed country; control of a country's foreign trade by the big international monopolies; and in extreme cases, the use of force as an economic weapon in support of the other forms of exploitation.

  Che Guevara

  Country, Support, Use

  "On Development". Speech delivered at the plenary session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, www.marxists.org. March 25, 1964.

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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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• Value in relation to price, not price alone, must determine your investment decisions. If you look to Mr Market as a creator of investment opportunities (where price departs from underlying value), you have the makings of a value investor. If you insist on looking to Mr Market for investment guidance however, you are probably best advised to hire someone else to manage your money.

  Seth Klarman

  Opportunity, Decision, Looks

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• I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor.

  Simon Baker

  Example, Shelter

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To investors, job creation is a second-order effect. Market participants care first about interest rates, exchange rates, bond prices and the one great factor that affects all three: the long-term solvency of a bond company called the U.S. government.

  Amity Shlaes

  Jobs, Government, Order

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• Investors must keep in mind that there's a difference between a good company and a good stock. After all, you can buy a good car but pay too much for it.

  Richard Thaler

  Differences, Car, Mind

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• But successful investors tend to be not too self-destructive. They tend to be patient, they tend not to follow the crowd, and they tend not to be too guilty about winning.

  Andrew Tobias

  Successful, Winning, Self

  "'I Have to Take a Call from My Russian Broker': Andrew Tobias Talks About His 'Vast Fortune'". Interview with Deborah Stead, www.nytimes.com. November 2, 1997.

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• The principal investors in the South African economy are South Africans. And this is something, I think, we should really pay attention to.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Thinking, Attention, Pay

  Source: www.gov.za

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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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• I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong.

  George Soros

  Making Money, Rich, Knows

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• The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.

  George Soros

  Ideas, Way, Different

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• I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong...I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.

  George Soros

  Money, Mistake, Wealth

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• I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'

  Peter Lynch

  Happiness, Reading, Investing

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• Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

  Warren Buffett

  Life, Time, Money

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• We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet.

  Warren Buffett

  Opportunity, Interesting, Balance

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.130, John Wiley & Sons

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• To be a value investor, you have to be willing [and able] to suffer pain.

  Jean-Marie Eveillard

  Pain, Suffering, Able

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• An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Safety, Needs, Resources

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.141, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• When excesses such as lax lending standards become widespread and persist for some time, people are lulled into a false sense of security, creating an even more dangerous situation. In some cases, excesses migrate beyond regional or national borders, raising the ante for investors and governments. These excesses will eventually end, triggering a crisis at least in proportion to the degree of the excesses. Correlations between asset classes may be surprisingly high when leverage rapidly unwinds.

  Seth Klarman

  Creating, Dangerous Situations, Government

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• If
  you're an investor, you're looking on what the asset is going to do, if
  you're a speculator, you're commonly focusing on what the price of the
  object is going to do, and that's not our game.

  Warren Buffett

  Games, Assets, Speculators

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