Investing Quotes

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.

A banker is somebody who lends you an umbrella & takes it away as soon as it starts raining.

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

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

Generally speaking, investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. Anything that improves your own talents; nobody can tax it or take it away from you. They can run up huge deficits and the dollar can become worth far less. You can have all kinds of things happen. But if you’ve got talent yourself, and you’ve maximized your talent, you’ve got a tremendous asset that can return ten-fold.

Bull markets are born on pessimism, grown on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy, and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell.

Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.

Automate your savings so that you have money taken directly from each paycheck and deposited into a 401(k) or other workplace retirement account. If that's not an option, automatically have money transferred out of checking into savings each time you get paid.

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.

One of the ways you go after the debt, one of the ways you create jobs is by investing in people.

Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.

Investing requires qualities of temperament way more than it requires qualities of intellect.

Investing is where you find a few great companies and then sit on your ass.

If you have more than 120 or 130 I.Q. points, you can afford to give the rest away. You don't need extraordinary intelligence to succeed as an investor.

Understanding both the power of compound interest and the difficulty of getting it is the heart and soul of understanding a lot of things.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon. I found it one of the hardest things to learn. But it is only after a stock operator has firmly grasped this that he can make big money.

Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.

The only intelligence investing is value investing...to acquire more than one is paying for.

All sensible investing is value investing

Anything can happen anytime in markets. And no advisor, economist, or TV commentator-and definitely not Charlie nor I-can tell you when chaos will occur. Market forecasters will fill your ear but will never fill your wallet.

The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy.

A prudent speculator never argues with the tape. Markets are never wrong, opinions often are.

The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.