Best Investors Quotes

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.

If you’re going to invest in an Internet stock, you must be a long-term investor.

I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong.

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.

Most active mutual funds are more interested in collecting fees than in boosting returns for investors.

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.

The tax-exempt privilege is a feature always reflected in the market price of [municipal] bonds. The investor pays for it.

In this age of electronic money, investors are no longer seduced by a financial ‘dance of a thousand veils.’ Only hard and accurate information on reserves, current accounts, and monetary and fiscal conditions will keep capital from fleeing precipitously at the first sign of trouble.

I think the first word of caution is; It’s not the kind of market where you need to jump in immediately on these downs. We’ve trained investors so much over the past decade and a half: Buy the dip, buy the dip.

When I read in Fortune magazine that Warren Buffet, the billionaire investor and one of the world’s richest men, was investing in a direct sales (network marketing) company, I decided I was missing something.

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.

Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.

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As an investor my job is to figure out what will happen rather than what should happen.

It is not enough for [the investor] to know all the factors that can possibly contribute to the determination of a future event. In order to anticipate correctly they must also anticipate correctly the quantity as it were of each factor’s contribution and the instant at which its contribution will become effective.

Bank One has got one of the best credit card divisions, … The perception of investors is that financial services stocks are affected by interest rates and they’re not.

One of the best investors around, Joel Greenblatt, has written a popular, charming and funny book about investing in great companies at low P/E multiples. To simplify an already simple book, great companies are generally measured as companies that can generate lots of profit without requiring a lot of capital. This means that they have high ROEs.

We would like to draw the attention of our partners, of potential investors to the Russian Far East.

Investors don’t like uncertainty. The market is telling us that they need certainty, they need to see where the economy is heading. If the government is committed to continue the Open Door policy, they will need to come up with concrete policies and execution steps to increase confidence.

If you don’t want to lose, you should wait for the right opportunity

I do not know whether the Government will be able to get ready to conduct this transaction together with the management of Rosneft itself, whether the appropriate strategic investors will be found. And I believe it is about such investors that we should talk. But we are getting ready, and it is in the current year that we are planning to do this.

Don’t try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped

We are talking about capital-intensive enterprises, so market certainty is the key. Investors and entrepreneurs have to know that there will be a guaranteed U.S. renewable energy market in which they can compete. Otherwise, they will create the next generation of green companies and green jobs in Asia, not here.

The U.S. should take notes: Government overspending and a campaign of alienating investors and small business isn’t really the best way to boost the economy or overcome massive unemployment.

We may have more control, but my point is that, strictly speaking, Rosneft is not a state company. I think that this is an obvious fact, as a foreign investor has a 19.7 percent stake in it.

If all of us work in accordance with rule of law, if rule of law is implemented, we are all safe, investors are safe, people will be safe.

If you’re a retail investor, you have set aside some of your hard-earned money for investment or to create a nest egg, for your kids or family.

A very interesting and promising cluster has formed here [in the Russian Far East ], and we would be happy if our potential investors, our counterparts from abroad, first of all those from the Asia-Pacific region, knew more about it.

If there’s any relevant influence we may have with an investor, with a studio, with a director, with an actor, I think we have to fight.

In order to access private capital, you have to provide competitive return on investment. In order to give competitive returns to investors, you’ve got to operate on a profitable basis and be thinking of yourself as a business.

Let’s take a timeout. Let’s allow investors the opportunity in a period of market calm to re-examine what’s happened and to deploy new strategies into the marketplace.

The market gives you the opportunity to arbitrage what the emotional investor will pay or sell at versus the fundamental value of a company, but you’ve got to pull the trigger promptly without hesitating. We’ve disciplined ourselves mentally and prepared ourselves in terms of information, as well as relationships with brokers, to do that.

They’re {Marvel] the ones who have went out and bought the comic book whenever it came out. They’re the real investors. They serve them. Having a chance to be part of that Marvel Universe is just – well, it is what it is. It’s just fantastic.