Best Investing Quotes

If investing is entertaining, if you’re having fun, you’re probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.

Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It’s really a great invention, and I wouldn’t underestimate the value of that. But they’re not designed to take care of social needs.

It’s not whether you’re right or wrong that’s important, but how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong.

Invest time, don’t spend it.

The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).

Every bubble consists of a trend that can be observed in the real world and a misconception relating to that trend. The two elements interact with each other in a reflexive manner.

Only in the exceptional case, where the integrity and competence of the advisers have been thoroughly demonstrated, should the investor act upon the advice of others without understanding and approving the decision made.

There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.

The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.

I plan to eliminate regulations that hinder domestic companies, particularly large conglomerates from investing in other companies.

Most investors want to do today what they should have done yesterday.

As a speculator you must embrace disorder and chaos.

Unless an investor has access to incredibly high-qualified professionals, they should be 100 percent passive – that includes almost all individual investors and most institutional investors.

Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn’t worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong time.

One of the big problems with growth investing is that we can’t estimate earnings very well. I really want to buy growth at value prices. I always look at trailing earnings when I judge stocks.

I’ve always viewed high-frequency trading as a tax on the rest of us.

Sunshine is the best disinfectant

All jobs are created in direct proportion to the amount of capital employed.

You realise the responsibility of carrying a film on your shoulders when people are investing money in you and they recognise the hard work you have to put in.

Investing in the market without knowing what stage it is in is like selling life insurance to 20 year olds and 80 year olds at the same premium.

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

Properly measured, the average actively managed dollar must underperform the average passively managed dollar, net of costs. Empirical analyses that appear to refute this principle are guilty of improper measurement.

Perhaps you will ask whether I can raise these three millions without difficulty. Well, nearly all my capital is invested in land, but I have some money out at interest and I can borrow without any trouble.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.

Investing and connecting are the key factors in turning any intention into reality.