Quotes About Timing

Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing.

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.

If you can't find any companies that you think are attractive, put your money in the bank until you discover some.

There is a time to make money and a time to not lose money.

Trading is a waiting game. You sit, you wait, and you make a lot of money all at once. Profits come in bunches. The trick when going sideways between home runs is not to lose too much in between.

I began to realize that the big money must necessarily be in the big swing.

The money's always been on the table. We could have took that money any time we wanted - every year, two, three times a year we've had offers, all the way down the line.

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

Whatever money you may need for the next five years, please take it out of the stock market right now, this week.

I made my money by selling too soon.

It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.

God always knows what your position should be at every given moment

In real estate, you make 10% of your money because you're a genius and 90% because you catch a great wave.

If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.

You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong.

You gotta get up early in the morning to catch a fox and stay up late at night to get a mink.

Don't hyperventilate about something that happened at 9:00 in the morning when the grace of God is trying to reward you at 6:00 in the evening.

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

Oh, I get lucky a lot. I get lucky at four in the morning in the law library.

Ability is of little account without opportunity. I have very rarely met with two o'clock in the morning courage: I mean instantaneous courage.

The perception is that more important people watch news in the evenings than in the mornings.

I never for a moment believed they would perform at 10 o'clock in the morning. It's hard enough getting them to perform at 8 at night.

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.