Quotes About Investing

Equities will do well over time - you just have to avoid getting excited when other people are getting excited.

That's the whole secret: earn more, spend less, and automate it.

Investing is 95% luck and 5% skill. And maybe if I'm wrong, it's 98 and 2.

Asset allocation, where to park your money and how to divide it up, is the single most important skill of a successful investor.

Remember, the goal is to take emotion out of investing because emotion is what so often destroys investing success

A lot of brilliant people are terrible investors. The reason is that they don't have the ability to make decisions with limited information. By the time you get all the information, everyone else knows it, and you no longer have the edge.

Remember, the goal is to take emotion out of investing because emotion is what so often destroys investing success, whether it's greed or fear.

The whole trick in investing is: "How do I keep from losing everything?" If you use the 200-day moving average rule, then you get out.

Why would anyone want to invest in mutual funds through an annuity? Because annuity products have special tax benefits, and the money inside can grow tax-deferred, just like a 401(k) or IRA.

He smiled again and grabbed my arm. "It so simple," he said. Indexing is the way to go. Invest in great American businesses without paying all the fees of a mutual fund manager and hang on to those companies, and you will win over the long term!

Your instincts might tell you that you'd do better in the second scenario, with steady gains, but you'd be wrong. You can actually make higher returns by investing regularly in a volatile stock market.

What dollar-cost averaging really means is systematically putting the same amount of money across your full portfolio—not just the stock portion.

Sir John Templeton, not only the world's greatest investor but also one of the greatest human beings, shared something with me almost 30 years ago: he said that he's never known anyone who tithed—meaning the person gave 8% or 10% of what he earned to religious or charitable organizations over a ten-year period—who didn't massively grow his financial wealth.

Transaction Costs. Transaction costs are a broad, sweeping category and can be broken down further into categories such as brokerage commissions, market impact costs (the cost of moving the market as mutual funds trade massive market-moving positions), and spread costs (the difference between the bid-and-ask or the buy-and-sell price of a stock).

call and put options, credit-default obligations (CDOs), and a whole host of exotic financial instruments available to traders these days. If you build up a lot of wealth, you may want to have your fiduciary look into some of these vehicles. But just realize that if you're playing this game, you're most likely no longer just an investor, you've become a speculator as well.

Don't lose money!" But for many investors, that means having to settle for mediocre returns in the Security Bucket.

Investing is 95% luck and 5% skill. And maybe if I'm wrong, it's 98 and 2. TR: Not to insult any active managers!

We have learned that nobody beats the market (except for a handful of "unicorns")! And by using low-cost market-mimicking index funds, we can outperform 96% of mutual funds and nearly as many hedge funds.

Not only will the vast majority (96%) of actively managed mutual funds not beat the market, they are going to charge us an arm and leg, and extract up to two-thirds of our potential nest egg in fees. But here is the kicker: they are going to have the nerve to look you in the eye and tell you that they truly have your best interests at heart while simultaneously lobbying Congress to make sure that is never the case.

Rule 1: don't lose money. Rule 2: see Rule 1. —WARREN BUFFETT'S RULES OF INVESTING

So let's recap. Not only will the vast majority (96%) of actively managed mutual funds not beat the market, they are going to charge us an arm and leg, and extract up to two-thirds of our potential nest egg in fees. But here is the kicker: they are going to have the nerve to look you in the eye and tell you that they truly have your best interests at heart while simultaneously lobbying Congress to make sure that is never the case.

There's an awful lot of luck relative to skill. Investing is 95% luck and 5% skill. And maybe if I'm wrong, it's 98 and 2.

Paul Tudor Jones

There are six that I think are really important and they are US stocks, US Treasury bonds, US Treasury inflation-protected securities [TIPS], foreign developed equities, foreign emerging-market equities, and real estate investment trusts [REITs].