Quotes About Investing

Best part of investing time in you, turns out to be the best glory for you.

October is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. Others are July, January, April, September, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.

If you don't follow the stock market, you are missing some amazing drama.

In the long run, it's not just how much money you make that will determine your future prosperity. It's how much of that money you put to work by saving it and investing it.

The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.

You have to understand accounting and you have to understand the nuances of accounting. It's the language of business and it's an imperfect language, but unless you are willing to put in the effort to learn accounting - how to read and interpret financial statements - you really shouldn't select stocks yourself. - Warren Buffett

Mary Buffett

The new Rob saw the restoration of his ability to run as a gift, a precious and fragile blessing that he wished to honor by racing not for respect or attention as before but for the inner journey, and by listening to his body and respecting rest, and also by investing himself in the trail running community.

For centuries I have thought all my despair is grief. But people get over grief. They get over even the most serious grief in a matter of years. If not get over then at least live beside. And the way they do this is by investing in other people, through friendship, through family, through teaching, through love.

For centuries I have thought all my despair is grief. But people get over grief. They get over even the most serious grief in a matter of years. If not get over then at least live beside. And the way they do this is by investing in other people, through friendship, through family, through teaching, through love. I have been approaching this realisation for some time now.

Except in such unusual circumstances, get in the habit of selling too soon. And when you've sold, don't torment yourself if the winning set continues without you. In all likelihood it won't continue long. If it does, console yourself by thinking of all the times when selling too soon preserved gains you would otherwise have lost.

Government inflation-protected securities (in the United States, these are Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, or TIPS) A low-cost total U.S. domestic equity (stock) index fund, either a mutual fund or an exchange-traded fund (ETF—i.e., a sort of mutual fund that can be traded like stocks on an exchange) A low-cost total international equity index fund, either a mutual fund or an ETF Single-premium income annuities Low-cost term life insurance

These funds are called vultures because they feed on "dead" bonds in default.Complaining that "these hedge funds who have bought the bonds at 20-30 cents to a dollar … now want to be repaid in full citing contractual obligations

There are no good or bad horses, just correctly or incorrectly priced ones. This principle holds across all probabilistic domains: again, the goal is to get more than you pay for.

You have a margin of safety when you buy a stock at a price that is substantially less than its value. As Graham noted, the margin of safety "is available for absorbing the effect of miscalculations or worse than average luck.

Klarman has a wonderful line: "Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator."35 He's saying that you have to be different from others and focus on gaps between price and value. This idea extends well beyond the world of investing.

when you start hitting 60 percent sentiment on the bearish or bullish side, your ears should perk up.

Markets may initially trend for fundamental reasons, but prices overshoot by ludicrous amounts. At some point, prices go up today simply because they went up yesterday. Michael Platt

Keep down your losses—never let them get away from you. Let your profits take care of themselves.'"6

One of the biggest mistakes most investors make is believing they've always got to be doing something . . . the trick in investing is not to lose money . . . the losses will kill you. They ruin your compounding rate; and compounding is the magic of investing.

The aim is to make money, not to be right

Price makes news, not the other way around. A market is going to go where a market is going to go.

commodities, currencies, interest rates, credit, and equities.1

Daniel Kahneman, who was the first psychologist to win the Nobel Prize in Economics (see my podcast episode #212), attributed market manias to investors' illusion of control, calling the illusion prospect theory. He studied the intellectual underpinnings of investing—how traders estimate odds and calculate risks—to prove how often people act from the mistaken belief they know more than they do.