Quotes About Investing

We didn't build Robinhood to make the rich people richer. The mission is to help the everyman, the rest of us.

If you must invest in paper, learn to be an options trader. Then you will know how to make money whether the markets are going up or down.

The long-term focus of index funds is a much needed counterweight to the short-termism favored by so many market participants.

The idea of investing in entrepreneurs who are building things from scratch, where I can participate in their dream, was very, very exciting to me.

95% of penny stocks are junk. I show you how to find the other 5%, and do it all without bribes or vested interests. Just good quality companies.

I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'

Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon.

If you don't study any companies, you have the same success buying stocks as you do in a poker game if you bet without looking at your cards.

Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.

The trick is not to learn to trust your gut feelings, but rather to discipline yourself to ignore them. Stand by your stocks as long as the fundamental story of the company hasn't changed.

When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap.

Whenever you invest in any company, you're looking for its market cap to rise. This can't happen unless buyers are paying higher prices for the shares, making your investment more valuable.

It takes remarkable patience to hold on to a stock in a company that excites you, but which everybody else seems to ignore. You begin to think everybody else is right and you are wrong. But where the fundamentals are promising, patience is often rewarded—Lukens stock went up sixfold in the fifteenth year, American Greetings was a sixbagger in six years, Angelica a sevenbagger in four, Brunswick a sixbagger in five, and SmithKline a threebagger in two.

The old Wall Street adage "never invest in anything that eats or needs repairs" may apply to racehorses, but it's malarkey when it comes to houses.

The typical big winner in the Lynch portfolio (I continue to pick my share of losers, too!) generally takes three to ten years or more to play out.

Here are some pointers from this section: • Understand the nature of the companies you own and the specific reasons for holding the stock. ("It is really going up!" doesn't count.) • By putting your stocks into categories you'll have a better idea of what to expect from them.

Stocks you trade, it's wives you're stuck with.

This is one of the keys to successful investing: focus on the companies, not on the stocks.

Invest in What You Know.

Despite Bernie's outspoken attacks on corporate America, the Sanderses became quite comfortable investing in those same companies with their growing investment portfolio.

Even in those earlier times, finding the really outstanding companies and staying with them through all the fluctuations of a gyrating market proved far more profitable to far more people than did the more colorful practice of trying to buy them cheap and sell them dear.

The only true test of whether a stock is "cheap" or "high" is not its current price in relation to some former price, no matter how accustomed we may have become to that former price, but whether the company's fundamentals are significantly more or less favorable than the current financial-community appraisal of that stock.

The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

You know, a balance-sheet is like a bikini, it shows more but it hides what is vital. I learnt to read a balance sheet and then I got fascinated by stocks.