Stock Investing Quotes

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. You just don't know when you can find the bottom.

Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.

The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share.

If you expect to be a net saver during the next 5 years, should you hope for a higher or lower stock market during that period? Many investors get this one wrong. Even though they are going to be net buyers of stocks for many years to come, they are elated when stock prices rise and depressed when they fall. This reaction makes no sense. Only those who will be sellers of equities in the near future should be happy at seeing stocks rise. Prospective purchasers should much prefer sinking prices.

I'd like to see great textbooks, great opportunities for kids to really understand stock market investing, because at the end of the day, they are going to be all they have in terms of creating a life for themselves, a retirement account, and things like that.

If you expect to continue to purchase stocks throughout your life, you should welcome price declines as a way to add stocks more cheaply to your portfolio.

It's a fact: stock investors sometimes lose money on their way to wealth. Get over it.

The American economy is going to do fine. But it won't do fine every year and every week and every month. I mean, if you don't believe that, forget about buying stocks anyway... It's a positive-sum game, long term. And the only way an investor can get killed is by high fees or by trying to outsmart the market.

It would be nice if this [finding really cheap stocks] happened all the time. Unfortunately, it doesn't.

I think the worst mistake you can make in stocks is to buy or sell based on current headlines.

One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world.

As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius.