Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old investing quotes, investing sayings, and investing proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game.Benjamin Graham
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Understanding the value of a security and whether it's trading above or below that value is the difference between investing and speculating.Coreen T. Sol
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If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.George Soros
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Sell in May, and go away; don't come back until St Leger day.Anonymous
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Investing in a market where people believe in efficiency is like playing bridge with someone who has been told it doesn't do any good to look at the cards.Warren Buffett
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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.John Maynard Keynes
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The four most dangerous words in investing are 'This time it's different'.John Templeton
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Investing is fun, exciting, and dangerous if you don't do any work.Peter Lynch
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Investing and connecting are the key factors in turning any intention into reality.Rhonda Britten
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A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.Warren Buffett
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Investing requires qualities of temperament way more than it requires qualities of intellect.Warren Buffett
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Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless.Warren Buffett
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You've got to go into places where other investors, and especially fund managers, fear to treat, or, more to the point, invest.Peter Lynch
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Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting.Billy Rose
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Investors can have 90% of their wealth in a single company, if it is the right company.Charlie Munger
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Investing means putting your money on something that has a good chance of winning in the short to medium term, and an even better, if not dead-certain, chance of winning in the long term.Paul Clitheroe
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Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes.John C. Bogle
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Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date.Warren Buffett
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In trading/ investing it's not about how much you make, but how much you don't lose.Bernard Baruch
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Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.Peter Lynch
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Unless you can watch your stock holding decline by 50% without becoming panic-stricken, you should not be in the stock market.Warren Buffett
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The strategy of putting all your eggs into one basket and watching that basket is less risky than you might think.Joel Greenblatt
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To be a successful investor over the long-term, you must also pretty much enjoy the journey.Joel Greenblatt
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Investing is laying out money today to receive more money tomorrow.Warren Buffett
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When investing, more effort means worse results, most of the time.Robert Rolih
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Investing is simple. It's the financial industry that works hard to make it complex!Robert Rolih
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All intelligent investing is value investing – acquiring more than you are paying for. You must value the business in order to value the stock.Charlie Munger
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Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible outcomes.Barry Ritholtz
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Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are.Warren Buffett
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Investing money is the process of committing resources in a strategic way to accomplish a specific objective.Alan Gotthardt
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The secret to investing is to figure out the value of something and then pay a lot less.Joel Greenblatt
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Investing is most intelligent when it is most business like.Benjamin Graham
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Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.Bill Ackman
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Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don't do any work.Peter Lynch
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Value in relation to price, not price alone, must determine your investment decisions. If you look to Mr Market as a creator of investment opportunities (where price departs from underlying value), you have the makings of a value investor. If you insist on looking to Mr Market for investment guidance however, you are probably best advised to hire someone else to manage your money.Seth Klarman
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Once you adopt a value-investment strategy, any other investment behaviour starts to seem like gambling.Seth Klarman
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If you invest $1,000 in a stock, all you can lose is $1,000, but you stand to gain $10,000 or even $50,000 over time if you're patient. The average person can concentrate on a few good companies, while the fund manager is forced to diversify. By owning too many stocks, you lose this advantage of concentration. It only takes a handful of big winners to make a lifetime of investing worthwhile.Peter Lynch
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Investing is far more cumulative than chess. So long as you're sharp, you can do it for as long as you wantPatrick Wolff
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Knowing the right detail gets you a great return. Ignore them and you just crash & burn.Robert Rolih
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Investors have very short memories.Roman Abramovich
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Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.James Altucher
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Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.Paul Samuelson
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In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a speculative undertaking.Seth Klarman
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October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.Mark Twain
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In investing, just as in baseball, to put runs on the scoreboard, one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard.Warren Buffett
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Investing now in safe-guarding people by helping them to adapt to climate change, will help save money and lives while building resilience.Michael Franti
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Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future.Warren Buffett
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In the long run, investing is not about markets at all. Investing is about enjoying the returns earned by businesses.John C. Bogle
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Investing is important, but get debt-free first. That's what frees up your income so you can win.Dave Ramsey
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When it comes to investing, you are your own worst enemy.Barry Ritholtz