Quotes About Finance

Good investments can be purchased at prices that generate high returns adjusted for inflation.

Bad investments are the exact opposite. They require constant new capital to keep an investment going at ever lower returns, or in the worst case, negative returns - in effect your are burning money. Finding

They are never worried about ideal bottom prices, or ideal top prices for that matter. They understand a decent average price is key to future investment success. Use

real estate is cheap and offers great rental yields, they buy real estate.

Risk of Financial Leverage This risk of loss increases exponentially when we add any form of financial leverage, i.e. borrowing money to invest.

He claimed that he would rather buy stocks under these conditions, because pigs did not pay a dividend. Plus, you have to feed pigs. Mr.

Taxi drivers told you what to buy. The shoeshine boy could give you a summary of the day's financial news as he worked with rag and polish. An old beggar who regularly patrolled the street in front of my office now gave me tips and, I suppose, spent the money I and others gave him in the market. My cook had a brokerage account and followed the ticker closely.

when a publicly listed company decides to go private again, as Dell Computers did in 2013. Take this setback with decorum, receive your cash, keep it in your cash portfolio, and wait for the next opportunity. A proxy fight or even becoming a private investor in a new entity is not worth your work and time -- especially for individual investors. Listen

At the risk of repeating myself, every investor's goal is to buy an investment at a low price and then sell it at a higher price. Buy low and sell high! The one thing that always keeps you from accomplishing this simple mission is yourself, not because making the purchase or sale is difficult to find out or to accomplish.

As soon as Congress does whatever it's going to do, and the U.S. doesn't go bankrupt, I think the market opens back up again.

Ever heard of collateralized debt obligations? Mortgage-backed securities? Non-bank asset-backed commercial paper? What about income trusts? Or even mutual funds?

wound down in 1842 at a cost of nearly $60 million

From 1928 to 1982 the Dow rose about 300%. But from 1982 to mid-2021, the market has risen 3500%! That's far faster than the US economy has grown, or company earnings have risen. In addition to investor animal spirits, much of the increase is due to ultra-low interest rates.

A clean conscience is expensive, it's the reason most men have to live paycheck to paycheck.

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

You Don't Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Money Flows

There is large cap, mid cap, small cap. There is also a "BHANGAAR CAP". More than 4000 out of 6000 companies fit in that category. They show up only in the good times. Be careful

Regret is a lifestyle disease of equity investing.

The only intelligence investing is value investing...to acquire more than one is paying for.

You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.

Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.

It's common knowledge that a large percentage of Wall Street brokers use astrology.

You can reply on a steady paycheck every two weeks building another persons business or you can generate income on a daily basis building your own. I chose the latter of the two options.

Actually criminal sanctions that are given could be up to five years for violating the rules and regulations under the campaign finance reform. This is like the Alien and Sedition Act of years and years ago, decades ago.