Quotes About Investment

Smith hace una curiosa diferencia entre el comerciante audaz al que su profesión incita a ser arriesgado y el hacendado tímido, que duda mucho antes de invertir. Por eso, el comerciante es el verdadero pionero del progreso.

Christians should desire to live their lives as good and godly stewards like Jesus, investing their time, talent, and treasure for God's purposes.

Insure your reading is in alignment with your goals. Read everything you can find on your goals and your profession. It's the best investment you can make.

Learn the lessons of history. Don't let how you feel about your tenure at your organization drive you to make poor investment decisions that could potentially derail a successful retirement.

It is easier," said Frederick Douglass, "to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Books were not an expense; they were an investment.

For most people, the fear of loss is much greater than the desire for gain.

As Warren Buffett says, "Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

I can't afford to waste my time making money. —JEAN LOUIS AGASSIZ

You're already a financial trader. You might not think of it in just this way, but if you work for a living, you're trading your time for money. Frankly, it's just about the worst trade you can make. Why? You can always get more money, but you can't get more time.

And this real-world approach is called the dollar-weighted return.

Marketing and graphic-design experts alike will tell you that corporate image is a huge filter through which consumers process buying information—they must know who you are, what you stand for, and when they're investing large sums of money, they usually want to buy from a company that exemplifies their product.

So if you think you can time the markets, you're wrong.

diversify across time. And that's what dollar-cost averaging does for you.

Here's an example that might prove valuable to you: a friend of mine recently bought a New York City bond where he's getting a 4% return tax free—which, for someone in a high tax bracket, is the equivalent of an approximately 7% return in a taxable bond!

You can also lose everything you've saved and invested. So whatever you put in your Risk/Growth Bucket, you have to be prepared to lose a portion or even all of it if you don't have protective measures in place.

whatever your favorite investment might be, at some point in your life, you can count on it dropping 50% to 70% in value. While there's unlimited potential for upside in this bucket, never forget that you could lose it all (or at least a significant portion). That's why I call this the Risk/Growth Bucket and not the Growth/Risk Bucket, because growth is not guaranteed, but risk is!

401(k) industry "the largest dark pool of assets where nobody really knows how or whose hands are getting greased.

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the Oracle of Omaha is famous for saying that the most powerful investment he ever made in his life, and that anyone can make, is an investment in himself.

Just like in that old Rolling Stones song, time is on your side when it comes to growing your wealth. And time is certainly the greatest asset for the Security Bucket—even if you start later in life.

Timing the market is basically playing poker with the best players in the world who play round the clock with nearly unlimited resources.

The mantra is simple: take the money you save on fees and reinvest it for compounded growth. This strategy is another fast lane to freedom.

And this speaks to the importance of taking advantage of every tax-advantaged investment opportunity that you can. You should maximize your contributions if you've got a 401(k), or a 403(b) if you work for a nonprofit. You should take every opportunity to invest in a tax-deferred way.