Anand Mahindra Quotes

I've usually used the phrase 'stay the course' as one of the great rules of investment success.

Eliminate emotion from your investment program.

Good businesses will survive good times and bad times.

Patience is one of the most valuable attributes in investing.

Speculation leads you the wrong way. It allows you to put your emotions first, whereas investment gets emotions out of the picture.

I like to invest in companies where I can really add value from my experience, network, etc., so checking out my portfolio of other investments, and my background, will generally give some guidance there.

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

Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.

The main thing during a crisis is discipline, to begin investing in time again after the crisis subsides.

I have a saying: There are no brave old people in finance. Because if you're brave, you mostly get destroyed in your 30s and 40s. If you make it to your 50s and 60s and you're still prospering, you have a very good sense of how to avoid problems and when to be conservative or aggressive with your investments.

I'm a strong believer that you can build great companies in time of both greed and fear. But you have to be paying attention and operating under the right assumptions. You don't have to believe history repeats itself, but you should accept that history rhymes.

Investing should be dull. It shouldn't be exciting.

If the fluctuations in your investment portfolio are reduced, the impact of emotions and behavior on your account is also reduced.

The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient.

Diversification is an established tenet of conservative investment.

As far as you are concerned, the stock market does not exist. Ignore it.

I called my business manager in California and said, 'Sell all of my stock' - what little of it I had - and it's the only smart financial move I ever made.

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

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

Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes?

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

The thing to do with mutual funds is to buy a couple of decent ones, set up an investment plan and then never, ever think about them again, except maybe once a quarter or so when you take a peek at your statements to make sure that you have not accidentally been buying the Fidelity Peace-in-the-Middle-East fund.

It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.