Quotes About Investing

You only need a few good stocks in your lifetime. I mean how many times do you need a stock to go up ten-fold to make a lot of money? Not a lot.

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

Investing is simple, but not easy.

Money is made by sitting, not trading.

If you invested in a very low cost index fund - where you don't put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years -you'll do better than 90% of people who start investing at the same time.

He really meant to tell them that the big money was not in the individual fluctuations but in the main movements that is, not in reading the tape but in sizing up the entire market and its trend.

People who look for easy money invariable pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this earth.

Frankly, I don't see markets; I see risks, rewards, and money.

If most traders would learn to sit on their hands 50 per cent of the time, they would make a lot more money.

You don't make money when you buy stocks. And you don't make money when you sell stocks. You make money by waiting.

There is a time to make money and a time to not lose money.

To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and be humble.

Once again, the 90/10 rule of money applies - 10% of the borrowers in the world use debt to get richer - 90% use debt to get poorer.

The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.

There's no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or worse, to buy more of it when the fundamentals are deteriorating.

Common stock investors can make money by predicting the outcomes of practice evolution. You can't derive this by fundamental analysis - you must think biologically.

Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future.

I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.

Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. If you are susceptible to selling everything in a panic, you ought to avoid stocks and mutual funds altogether.

Trading is a waiting game. You sit, you wait, and you make a lot of money all at once. Profits come in bunches. The trick when going sideways between home runs is not to lose too much in between.

Money is ultimately not enough compensation for investing your time and energy: there has to be a sense of purpose, meaning and fulfillment.

It's not how much money you make that makes you rich, it's how you spend it.

More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing.

You're dealing with a lot of silly people in the marketplace; it's like a great big casino and everyone else is boozing. If you can stick with Pepsi, you should be OK.