Suze Orman Quotes

You could lose hundreds or thousands one day on paper and gain it all back the next, and it has literally no effect on your immediate future, provided the money you have in the market is money you're investing for the long haul (meaning at least three to five years).

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

People with 401(k)s need to be very conservative. Picking bottoms should be for insiders and traders.

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

My advice to the average investor in 1988 is to be patient and think long-term. It will take 18 months for confidence to get better and, in the meantime, this is absolutely no place for short-term money.

I had a few stocks, but stocks took a dive. I never sell my stocks.

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

We don't really look at the stock, you know? Because for us, it's about the long term. And so we're very much focused on long-term shareholder value but not the short-term kind of stuff.

Regardless of what happens in the markets, stick to your investment program. Changing your strategy at the wrong time can be the single most devastating mistake you can make as an investor.

Stock market goes up or down, and you can't adjust your portfolio based on the whims of the market, so you have to have a strategy in a position and stay true to that strategy and not pay attention to noise that could surround any particular investment.

It's in the nature of stock markets to go way down from time to time. There's no system to avoid bad markets. You can't do it unless you try to time the market, which is a seriously dumb thing to do. Conservative investing with steady savings without expecting miracles is the way to go.

I have yet to take capital losses on any company. Then again, it's still early.

I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.

Owning equities is an essential part of anyone's portfolio. You just can't ignore it over time. It's going to add the real pop to anyone's overall performance.

But my system for over 30 years has been this: When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better.

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

I think that I could have been take apart if the bear market continued, but I waited three years before I felt the bear market was over and I was right.

What I'm trying to say is that for the average investor, what I would encourage them to do is to understand that there's inflation and growth. It can go higher and lower and to have four different portfolios essentially that make up your entire portfolio that gets you balanced.

If you can predict where the market's going, just do what you can predict. If you can't, which is the presumption of dollar cost averaging or time cost averaging, either one, then you're trying to ease in. But if the market rises more than it falls most of the time, easing in is, by definition, a loser's game.

Buy into good, well-researched companies and then wait. Let's call it a sit-on-your-hands investment strategy.

I have a million dollars in the stock market, because if I lose a million dollars, I don't personally care.

I'm a very passive investor.

If there's a recession, I'd buy stocks. That's when you make money: when markets are spooked.