Quotes About Investing

Slow investing can have the same impact on startups that slow food has had on cuisine: good things come to those who wait.

The thing to do with mutual funds is to buy a couple of decent ones, set up an investment plan and then never, ever think about them again, except maybe once a quarter or so when you take a peek at your statements to make sure that you have not accidentally been buying the Fidelity Peace-in-the-Middle-East fund.

It's difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and it's basically driven by algorithms talking to algorithms. There's no real rhyme or reason for that. So it's difficult. We just try to preach long-term investing and staying the course.

We had a field day before anyone knew anything about shorting. It was almost a license to steal. Nowadays, it's a license to get hosed.

It's wonderful to see more of my colleagues recognizing the importance of investing in STEM education and scientific research and development.

The foundation stone of wealth accumulation is defense, and this defense should be anchored by budgeting and planning.

Many Saudis are deal-making opportunists who will invest anything to make large, quick profits with minimal effort, and get rid of their business at the first sign of a declining market.

Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.

We need a moderately-priced stock market… The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But, unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do. For the investor, a too-high purchase price for the stock of an excellent company can undo the effects of a subsequent decade of favorable business developments.

If you aren't thinking about owning a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes.

So smile when you read a headline that says "Investors lose as market falls." Edit it in your mind to "Disinvestors lose as market falls—but investors gain." Though writers often forget this truism, there is a buyer for every seller and what hurts one necessarily helps the other. (As they say in golf matches: "Every putt makes someone happy.")

Gold is a way of going long on fear, and it has been a pretty good way of going long on fear from time to time. But you really have to hope people become more afraid in a year or two years than they are now. And if they become more afraid you make money, if they become less afraid you lose money, but the gold itself doesn't produce anything.

I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful

as happens in Wall Street all too often, what the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.

Our favorite holding period is forever. We are just the opposite of those who hurry to sell and book profits when companies perform well but who tenaciously hang on to businesses that disappoint. Peter Lynch aptly likens such behavior to cutting the flowers and watering the weeds.

In the 54 years (Charlie Munger and I) have worked together, we have never forgone an attractive purchase because of the macro or political environment, or the views of other people. In fact, these subjects never come up when we make decisions.

If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes.

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.

It's not that I want money. It's the fun if making money and watching it grow.

My favourite holding period is forever

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

The best investment you can make is in yourself.

Our advantage, rather, was attitude: we had learned from Ben Graham that the key to successful investing was the purchase of shares in good businesses when market prices were at a large discount from underlying business values.

Don't work for money, make money work for you.