Quotes About Investing

Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies.

There is the plain fool who does the wrong thing at all times anywhere, but there is the Wall Street fool who thinks he must trade all the time.

Successful stocks don't tell you when to sell. When you feel like bragging, it's probably time to sell.

When you look at the results on an after-fee, after-tax basis over reasonably long periods of time, there's almost no chance that you end up beating the index fund.

All the time and effort people devote to picking the right fund, the hot hand, the great manager have, in most cases, led to no advantage.

Time is your friend, impulse is your enemy. Take advantage of compound interest and don't be captivated by the siren song of the market.

If you can remember that stocks aren't pieces of paper that gyrate all the time --they are fractional interests in businesses -- it all makes sense.

Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.

If a product's future is unlikely to be remarkable – if you can't imagine a future in which people are once again fascinated by your product – it's time to realize that the game has changed. Instead of investing in a dying product, take profits and reinvest them in building something new.

I have never owned a share of stock in my life, and the only time I've double dipped into anything is at the snack tray.

One thing that stock investing has in common with real estate is that location is very important. In this case, however, we're referring to where in the stock market your money is located. Being in the right sectors and industry groups can enhance your overall performance. Being in the wrong ones can hurt it.

Consumer staples usually underperform the S&P 500 during bull markets and outperform it during bear markets.

Stock markets are not a way of putting money into companies, but a means of taking it out. The

Most hedge funds fail: 90 percent of all the hedge funds that have ever existed have closed or gone broke.

I find economics increasingly satisfactory, and I think I am rather good at it. I want to manage a railroad or organise a Trust or at least swindle the investing public

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others

Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent.

Einstein was right about relativity, but even he would have had a difficult time applying relative valuation in today's stock markets.

Success in investing comes not from being right but from being wrong less often than everyone else.

Kahneman notes in his book on investor psychology, experience is not a very good teacher in investing and markets. 2 As human beings, we often extract the wrong lessons from past successes, don't learn enough from our failures, and sometimes delude ourselves into remembering things that never happened.

As I see it, the future of investing belongs to those who are flexible in their thinking and capable of moving easily from one segment of the market to another.

Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.

One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities of your mistakes. A bad call can lose you many millions.

Real estate investing will power up your earning potential and put you into a different class of investor entirely.