Quotes About Investing

It's one of the fundamental principles of the stock market: When interest rates go up, stocks go down. And along with financial companies and cyclicals, technology companies - with their sky-high price-to-earnings multiples - should be among the biggest losers in an environment of rising rates.

One of the first things I tell people is, if you want to learn about investing, you want to open an account and make real investments because that's when it becomes real.

Some companies use off-balance-sheet partnerships to raise money or to buy assets without ever telling their shareholders in their financial statements.

If you rank the top 50 one-day moves in the S&P 500, a fair number of those happened within the last five or 10 years. That tells you that we're in a different, riskier market now.

In many aspects of government, as in the tech world and investing, brains and temperament smash experience and seniority out of the park.

We must decide where we want our ministry to count—in the momentary applause of popular recognition or in the reproduction of our lives in a few chosen people who will carry on our work after we have gone. Really it is a question of which generation we are living for.

Ben Graham gave us the same lesson: "In the short run the market is a voting machine but in the long run it is a weighing machine."51

If the price of a stock drops more than 10 percent, I will, more often than not, cut my losses and look for something new.

He just played the game smarter, and he did it through corporations—the biggest secret of the rich.

In the long run, it's not how much money you make. It's how much you keep, and how many generations you keep it.

Stocks •?Bonds •?Income-generating real estate •?Notes (IOUs) •?Royalties from intellectual property such as music, scripts, and patents •?Anything else that has value, produces income or appreciates, and has a ready market

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Trading for a Living

I have mentioned before that financial intelligence is a synergy of accounting, investing, marketing, and law.

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

Since he also had a sizable stake in U.S. government bonds, he felt he could play the market with impunity.

A born contrarian, Rockefeller insisted upon buying in declining markets and selling in rising ones.

born contrarian, Rockefeller insisted upon buying in declining markets and selling in rising ones. When accumulating a position, he bought stocks each time they declined an eighth of a point; when unwinding a position, he sold each time the stock rose an eighth of a point—a technique that gave him an average over an extended period.

I see faith as being a reasonable step in the same direction that the evidence is pointing. In other words, faith goes beyond merely acknowledging that the facts of science and history point toward God. It's responding to those facts by investing trust in God—a step that's fully warranted due to the supporting evidence.

Markets are actually set up so that most traders must lose money

So far, the only people who've made money from trading systems are their sellers.

Use limit orders almost exclusively—except when placing stops. Be careful on what tools you spend money: there are no magic solutions. Success cannot be bought, only earned.

The New Sell & Sell Short: How to Take Profits, Cut Losses, and Benefit from Price Declines (John Wiley & Sons, 2011).

If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it.