Quotes About Stocks

Even though most investors see their work as active, assertive, and on the offensive, the reality is and should be that stock and bond investing alike are primarily a defensive process. The great secret for success in long-term investing is to avoid serious losses.

Don't pay more per share for a company's stock than you'd be willing to pay if you were buying the whole company.

But there are many kinds of hunters engaged in the Pursuit of Happiness, and they go variously armed. It is the Inalienable Right of some among them, to take the field after THEIR Happiness equipped with cat and cartwhip, stocks, and iron collar, and to shout their view halloa! (always in praise of Liberty) to the music of clanking chains and bloody stripes.

OCTOBER: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The other are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.

We need a moderately-priced stock market… The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But, unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do. For the investor, a too-high purchase price for the stock of an excellent company can undo the effects of a subsequent decade of favorable business developments.

If you aren't thinking about owning a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes.

stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: "Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth.

If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes.

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.

My favourite holding period is forever

Warren Buffett

When Walter and Edwin were asked in 1989 by Outstanding Investors Digest, "How would you summarize your approach?" Edwin replied, "We try to buy stocks cheap." So much for Modern Portfolio Theory, technical analysis, macroeconomic thoughts and complex algorithms.

I try to buy shares of unpopular companies when they look like road kill and sell them when they've been polished up a bit.

I am buying the most unpopular, most battered stocks, but then who knows?

For all your long-term investments, such as retirement accounts that you won't touch for at least ten years, you need a mix of stocks and bonds. Stocks offer the best shot at inflation-beating gains. But stocks don't always go up. That's where bonds come into play: They have less upside potential, but they also do not pack the same risk.

Shareholders share in the downside and not necessarily in the upside; that's the whole story.

In history, the evidence is overwhelming: Stock market bottoms happen, and then stocks jolt upwards while the economy keeps getting worse - sometimes by a lot and for a long time.

All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the minuses from the stocks that don't work out.

Many financial advisors recommend that you diversify for your own protection. What they fail to tell you is that it is also for their protection. Since most financial advisors cannot tell you exactly which stock or mutual fund is a great investment, they tell you to buy a bunch of them.

Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

Short sellers sell stock they have borrowed, hoping to buy it back later when its price has fallen.

Early in my career, we were just pure bottoms-up stock pickers.

No one likes to look at their stock price go down and say, 'I feel good about that.' It goes without saying.

I don't think anybody ever makes any money buying and selling stock. They have to make money by keeping the stock.