Quotes About Investing

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

Let's hope brands recognize that the true power of this technology is not its reach but its ability to communicate substance that adds meaning to our lives. Otherwise, brands will be investing in technology that consumers simply won't buy.

Other than playing the game I love, my passion is investing in innovative companies and helping the entrepreneurs behind them succeed.

If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.

If there is one fatal flaw in this business, it is allowing isolated information to drive trading or investing decisions-committing money without understanding all the risks. And there is only one way to understand all the risks: through systematic knowledge.

The beauty of periodic rebalancing is that it forces you to base your investing decisions on a simple, objective standard.

Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, the safest way, but the only way to become wealthy.

In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand.

Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market.

I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am no investor.

Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.

The stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing.

Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

All intelligent investing is value investing - acquiring more that you are paying for. You must value the business in order to value the stock.

When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.

I don't like all this business stuff. I like stocks.

You should look at stocks as small pieces of business.

Get to the next level by learning the art of investing in people.

If you spend your energies looking for and analysing situations not closely followed by other informed investors, your chance of finding bargains greatly increases.

If the p/e of Coca-Cola is 15, you'd expect the company to be growing at about 15 percent a year, etc. But if the p/e ratio is less than the growth rate, you may have found yourself a bargain. A company, say, with a growth rate of 12 percent a year (also known as a "12-percent grower") and a p/e ratio of 6 is a very attractive prospect.