Quotes About Investment

Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.

Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.

Rich don't work for money. They work for assets.

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

It took me five years to learn to play the game intelligently enough to make big money when I was right.

You spend your time like you spend money. You can waste it or invest it.

We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.

Money makes money. And the money that makes money makes more money.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.

The Internet is like a gold-rush; the only people making money are those who sell the pans.

We must teach our children not to spend their money a dollar at a time. If you spend your dollar at a time, you'll wind up with trinkets instead of treasures.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.

In most cases, when people make more money, they get deeper in debt. This is why money alone does not make you rich.

The public be damned. I am working for my stockholders.

Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around.

Everybody makes money when times are good. It's when times are not so good that the groundwork is laid for the next generation.

If you're prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language that a fifth grader could understand, and quickly enough so the fifth grader won't get bored.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

I don't believe in giving people money. In Sunday school [you learn] that if you teach a man to fish, you feed him for life; but you give him a fish, you feed him for a day.

When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

Look down, not up, when making your initial investment decision. If you don't lose money, most of the remaining alternatives are good ones.

Don't be afraid to spend money to make money. That's one thing I've never been afraid of... to invest in myself.