Quotes About Investing

The next thing I would advise is to always use stops.

The first thing I would say is always bet less than 5 percent of your money on any one idea.

Perhaps the most important rule is to hold on to your winners and cut your losers. Both are equally important. If you don't stay with your winners, you are not going to be able to pay for the losers.

So you like seeing a high EPS with a low P/E. Yes. That's the best combination. I am sure there is a way of combining the two on a computer and coming up with a very good system.

Place your stops at a point that, if reached, will reasonably indicate that the trade is wrong, not at a point determined primarily by the maximum dollar amount you are willing to lose per contract.

Place your stops at a point that, if reached, will reasonably indicate that the trade is wrong, not at a point determined primarily by the maximum dollar amount you are willing to lose per contract. If the meaningful stop point implies an uncomfortably large loss per contract, trade a smaller number of contracts.

Value investing was once the purchase of tangible assets at levels below their market value. Value investing today is buying sustainable competitive advantages at a good price.

There are times when you should be completely out of the market, for emotional as well as economic reasons.

The markets are unforgiving, and emotional trading always results in losses.

In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and emotional impossibility.

I have a 41-year track record of investing excellence… what do you have?

My experience is that short sellers do far better analysis than long buyers because they have to. The market is biased upward over time-as the saying goes, stocks are for the long run.

By investing at a discount, Benjamin Graham knew that he was unlikely to experience losses.

Timepass Buying and selling of shares in stock market is happening these days only amongst brokers and insiders because retail investors are hardly there as they have lost their interest despite seeing share price going up

I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.

Core participants tend to focus on transactions rather than investing in the long-term effort to build sustainable, trust-based relationships on the edge.

Becoming wealthy is not a matter of how much you earn, who your parents are, or what you do.. it is a matter of managing your money properly.

Fear and greed are probably the worst emotions to have in connection with the purchase and sale of stocks.

Successful contrarian investing requires us to live with discomfort, for being "wrong" and alone. But bargains do not exist in the absence of fear.

I have noticed that everyone who has ever tried to tell me that markets are efficient is poor.

What's both fascinating and challenging about investing is that the changing nature of business and finance means you can never have it all figured out.

Nobody beats the market, they say. Except for those of those of us who do.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

Choosing individual stocks without any idea of what you're looking for is like running through a dynamite factory with a burning match. You may live, but you're still an idiot.