Quotes About Investing

The stock market is overpriced. Everything is overpriced. Junk is king.

An ordinary person who wants to invest in the stock market or a mutual fund, or simply open a saving bank account, is bombarded by ever increasing compliance regulations under the pretext of automation, efficiency, better governance or prevention of money laundering.

We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.

I am not criticizing investing in the stock market; I am an investor.

The stock market has an insidious effect on C.E.O.s' moods, because of its impact not just on their companies but on their own bank accounts.

I've been investing in the stock market for 27 years and, within that time, have helped investors beat the market nearly four to one.

Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks.

Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.

Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That's because, when you invest in real estate, you often see a side of humanity that stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and saving money shelter you from.

I have mutual funds. I have a lot of individual stocks. I'm across the board, really well diversified.

Money you won't need to use for at least seven years is money for investing. The goal here is to have your account grow over time to help you finance a distant goal, such as building a retirement fund. Since your goal is in the future, money for investing belongs in stocks.

People often panic when the markets go down and sell off their stocks - but then they aren't in the game when the markets are doing well.

I have never believed that large-cap stocks are too well followed to be anything but efficiently priced.

I sell these intermediate bond portfolios for people that can't go to stocks.

When growth is slower-than-expected, stocks go down. When inflation is higher-than-expected, bonds go down. When inflation is lower-than-expected, bonds go up.

I grade my stocks. I'm what they call a quant, one of the geeks of the stock market.

My advice to most people is don't short stocks. It's a very, very difficult business. And you can really get clobbered.

The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do deserve to lose money.

We typically hear numbers that there are 34 million households that are in stocks in some form. Well, I say that what's occurred is if you have a job in this country, you're in stocks.

What I'm saying is that there are bargains right now, there are stocks right now that if you're shrewd enough, you will be able to buy them at the opening today and I you'll make money in a year from now.

I don't invest in the stock market. I did it a long, long time ago when I was really young, and I got involved in all the investigations and all the prosecutions, and I felt it was better if I didn't make individual investments. So I'm invested in funds, but not in individual - not in individual stocks.

Zeroing in on the best sectors or the best regions of the world is great, but zeroing in on the very best individual stocks is the key to making truly impressive profits.

September 2001 turned out to be an unusually bad time to sell stocks: By New Year's Day 2002, little more than three months after the post-9/11 low reached on Sept. 21, the S&P 500 had gained close to 20 percent.

Since we try and take a fairly buy-and-hold approach to our newsletter portfolios and don't sell at every whipsaw, we want to have a mix of stocks that will perform at both ends of the oscillation.