Quotes About Investing

Warren Buffett's top two rules of investing? Rule 1: don't lose money! Rule 2: see rule 1.

Remember Warren Buffett's ultimate laws of investing? Rule 1: don't lose money. Rule 2: see rule

20% US Total Stock Index 20% Developed (Foreign) Markets Index 20% US REIT Index (Real Estate) 15% Long-term US Treasuries Index 15% US TIPS Index (Treasury inflation-protected) 10% Emerging Markets Stock Index

Index your important money, then go have fun," Burton Malkiel told me. "It's better than going to the racetrack." But, he said, limit yourself to 5% or less of your total assets or portfolio.

The goal of the nonprofessional should not be to pick winners—neither he nor his "helpers" can do that—but should rather be to own a cross section of businesses that in aggregate are bound to do well. A low-cost S&P 500 index fund will achieve this goal. —WARREN BUFFETT, 2013 letter to shareholders

And the smartest investors know just when to enter the market—except for when they don't!

Shiller found that when he adjusted for inflation, US housing prices have been nearly flat for a century! He exploded one of the biggest myths of our time: that home prices keep going up and up. "Unless there's a bubble," he told me. And we all know what eventually happens to bubbles.

Remember, the biggest challenge in investing is staying power; when markets tank, folks get scared and sell.

Third, they could utilize a risk-parity portfolio. Remember, this is a very different approach than just balancing the dollar amounts you have invested in assets—which is the basic diversification strategy that almost everyone else in the industry utilizes. And it's a strategy that anyone can implement.

There's an awful lot of luck relative to skill. Investing is 95% luck and 5% skill.

Yet there are still 100 million people invested in actively managed mutual funds. How is that humanly possible? JB: Well, never underestimate the power of marketing.

But that's trading, not investing, and trying to time a market brings very intense and special risks.

One of my favorites that I mentioned to you already is investing in senior housing, where you get both the income and the potential growth in appreciation as well.

protected securities [TIPS], foreign developed equities, foreign emerging-market equities, and real estate investment trusts [REITs].

You've probably heard that old rule of thumb (or what Jack Bogle calls a "crude method"): invest your age in bonds. In other words, subtract your age from 100, and that would be the percentage you should keep in stocks.

That's obvious, right? And there have been recent studies, including one by Vanguard in 2012, showing that in rolling ten-year periods over the past 80 years in the US, UK, and Australian stock markets, lump-sum investing has outperformed dollar-cost averaging more than two-thirds of the time.

For the 20-year period from December 31, 1993, to December 31, 2013, the S&P 500 returned 9.2% annually, but the average mutual fund investor averaged just over 2.5%, barely beating inflation.

To survive, a technology must prove useful. In fact, it must prove more than useful; it must meet perceived needs in a manner that existing technologies don't as well as build a base of adherents who provide a monetary reason to continue investing in the technology.

reminded Al-Aswany of this before I read back to him what he had said about Egypt in the same interview with Egypt Today in response to a devastating survey of the country by Mondial, a leading U.K. provider of advice for foreign companies investing in Egypt and for those seeking travel insurance. The survey had produced a wave of soul-searching in the Egyptian media, and not a few knee-jerk reactions, after it ranked the country's service and tourist sectors a flat zero.

Interestingly, as I was writing this book, TapImmune (TPIV) left the small stock OTC Exchange and moved up to the NASDAQ Exchange, where stocks have to cost $ 5 or more. But I still just enter TPIV if I want to buy more shares, like I did in the past. And now my order is automatically sent to the NASDAQ, instead of the OTC exchange.

But in More Stock Investing For Beginners we get into what I call the Warren Buffett mindset. It goes something like this. Just because the stock is selling for $ 5.17 right now doesn't mean you can't put an order in for $ 5.00.

Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die of euphoria.

The four most dangerous words in investing are: "this time it's different."

I've been doing a hybrid of investing and entrepreneurship, which I think initially I wasn't set out to do. But I realized it fit my personality.