Quotes About Investing

You will never see as many great women investors or traders as men. Period. End of story.

His stories were so popular that Edwin Lefèvre, the author of the articles in the Saturday Evening Post, assembled them into a bestselling book, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator.24 During the years after the book's publication, Livermore lost the entire $100 million he had made betting on the markets, and then shot himself

Admittedly, it is preposterous to suggest that stock speculation is like coin-flipping. I know that there is more skill to stock speculation. What I have never been able to determine is - how much more?

When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me it's a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.

When yields on corporate bonds are lower than dividends on stocks, that unnerves me.

Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.

Too often, the public can fall into the trap of investing when stock prices are rising, not dropping.

There needs to be some standards around launching an ICO and investing in ICOs in the space, and I caution all to tread carefully until those standards emerge.

I still like TIPS (Treasury inflation-protected securities), and I think a big opportunity is coming in the municipal bond market.

I used to be a health-care investor a long time ago in the public markets. One thing I learned that we tried to apply here is that investing in small molecules, trying to invest in the next treatment, there's an element of gambling to that.

Generally, a rising trend in rates is bearish for stocks; a falling trend is bullish.

Big money is made in the stock market by being on the right side of the major moves. The idea is to get in harmony with the market. It's suicidal to fight trends. They have a higher probability of continuing than not.

Truth be told, most financial television bores me. Two or more people discussing the latest economic trends or hot stocks is not especially entertaining.

I'd compare stock pickers to astrologers but I don't want to bad mouth astrologers.

I cannot invest the way I want the world to be; I have to invest the way the world is.

Nearly everyone interested in common stocks wants to be told by someone else what he thinks the market is going to do. The demand being there, it must be supplied.

Most investors want to do today what they should have done yesterday.

Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research.

Western world, is the leading authority on the subject. His books, Japanese Candlestick Charting

A really important lesson in investing is that being either too far in front or too far behind is when you get hurt, whereas being right at the edge of the wave is where the money is made. And our job is not to be right, but to make money.

The competitiveness of the world economy is such that mean reversion reigns, so you should buy the guys who are underperforming. Some of them will go bankrupt but many of them will come back up to the mean. Many of the growth stocks will also pull back to the mean as those who are great will become mediocre and those who are mediocre will become better.

The best way I know to get rich long-term is to invest prudently and conservatively and not try and get rich quick but try and get rich slowly, basically.

Our Fly Smart philosophy is about investing only on those points of differentiation that pay for themselves, that earn a revenue premium commensurate with what it costs us to provide that product or service.

Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.