Quotes About Investing

The number-one control you must have to be an investor is control over yourself. If you cannot control yourself, the highs and lows of the market will run you, and you will lose during one of those ups or downs.

Profits are made in the buying, not in the selling.

I asked him what he thought of the market

The key to becoming wealthy is the ability to convert earned income into passive income or portfolio income as quickly as possible.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

There are more mutual funds than there are companies that mutual funds invest in.

Once your passive and portfolio income exceed your expenses, the ratio would be one or higher, and you would be out of the Rat Race.

In the world of accounting, there are three different types of income: 1.?Ordinary earned 2.?Portfolio 3.?Passive

I have mentioned before that financial intelligence is a synergy of accounting, investing, marketing, and law. Combine those four technical skills and making money with money is easier than most people would believe.

As Warren Buffett, America's richest investor says, "Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing." My

MASTERING MONEY With the advent of derivatives and an increasingly complex economy, mastering money has become essential to surviving in the world economy. With low interest rates and an uncertain stock market, the old adages of saving and investing for the long term make no sense.

Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.

You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations.

To restore America's competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.

What went wrong was their rejection of basic bedrock principles of investing—that high returns are leg-shackled to high risks; that you should never put all your eggs in one basket; that you should never invest in something you cannot understand. They failed to see that no one should hand all their money over to anyone simply because they trust him, or because someone they admire trusts him.

Emotions are your worst enemy in the stock market.

Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.

My main life lesson from investing: self-interest is the most powerful force on earth, and can get people to embrace and defend almost anything.

Investing in the market without knowing what stage it is in is like selling life insurance to 20 year olds and 80 year olds at the same premium.

Reading is the best return on investment. You have to live your entire life in order to know one life. But with reading you can know 1000s of people's lives for almost no cost. What a great return!

There is no question that the losing IPOs far outnumber the winners. Of the 8,606 firms examined, the returns on 6,796 of these firms, or 79 percent, have subsequently underperformed the returns on a representative small stock index, and almost half the firms have underper-formed by more than 10 percent per year.

I examined the buy-and-hold returns of almost 9,000 IPOs issued between 1968 and 2001. I calculated the returns based on whether investors purchased the IPOs either at the end of the first month of trading or at the IPO offer price and held these stocks until December 31, 2003.25 There is no question that the losing IPOs far outnumber the winners.

Chapter 6 showed that over holding periods of 20 years or longer, stocks have both a higher return and lower after-inflation risk than bonds. The

In fact, for someone in the highest tax bracket, short-term Treasury bills have yielded a negative after-tax real return since 1871, even lower if state and local taxes are taken into account. In contrast, top-bracket taxable investors would have increased their purchasing power in stocks 288-fold over the same period.