Quotes About Investing

The fallacy that a stock that has once sold at 150 must be cheap at 130 and a bargain at 120.

When the stock you are manipulating doesn't act as it should, quit. Don't argue with the tape. Do not seek to lure the profit back. Quit while the quitting is good—and cheap.

That is why I repeat that I never argue with the tape.

Remember this: When you are doing nothing, those speculators who feel they must trade day in and day out, are laying the foundation for your next venture. You will reap benefits from their mistakes.

The existence of such objects also supports the suggestion made in the Introduction that human beings are directed toward the impersonal as well as toward the personal. These very early manifestations of investing impersonal objects with significance are evidence that man was not born for love alone. The meaning attaching to such objects may later become invested in objects of scientific enquiry, or in any of the manifold aspects of the external world which engage adult attention.

I think when markets go up and there is no manipulation in markets and people question the market going up and it keeps going up, that is a true bull market.

Things are pretty good for NASCAR with our TV agreements behind us and so forth. For us it's focusing on putting the best events and tightest racing that we can, making improvements on the track and investing in the amenities and fan experience.

If all you needed to do is to figure out what company is better than others, everyone would make a lot of money. But that is not the case. They keep raising the prices to the point when the odds change.

ESG investing often marches under the same banner as 'stakeholder capitalism,' which maintains that corporations owe obligations to a range of constituencies, not only their shareholders.

I really am not a gold fan.

We have co-opted seed funds. You know, Y Combinator, that was completely our money. We have secret handshakes with a whole bunch of people. Very dangerous, because word gets out that so-and-so's money is Sequoia's money, that would not be a good thing.

Wise investors won't try to outsmart the market.

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.

Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.

Ultimately savings have to go somewhere and I think they will find their home in financial markets and within financial markets, a large part in equity.

A lot of corporations now have venture arms that are investing in young entrepreneurs or building programs within so you can disrupt yourself internally instead of looking to those external factors.

But I can tell you markets are like women, always commanding, always mysterious, always volatile, always exciting and it is not a joke.

Conspiracy theories feed on opacity, and that's a longtime problem with short selling. Large long positions must be reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission in public filings, but not large short positions.

When executives allegedly lie to the investing public about their company's performance and thereby harm the integrity of the market, they must be held accountable.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

I was about thirteen when I started thinking about the stock market. My dad helped me a little bit. I'd see it in the 'Santa Barbara News-Press.' These prices would change every day - what was that all about?

Things are temporary, relationships last forever. Nothing can replace the time we spend investing in the life of another.

In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a speculative undertaking.

Timing the market is a fools game, whereas time in the market is your greatest natural advantage.