Long-term investment success, risk control, aggressiveness — Howard Marks
An investment business has certain risks, and your job as an investor is not to eliminate all risks but to manage and minimize them. — Naved Abdali
An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return. — Benjamin Graham
Return alone, quality of investment decisions — Howard Marks
Successful investing, attention, aspects, satisfactory, risk, challenging, essential — Howard Marks
Diversified portfolio, significant loss, investment success — Howard Marks
Good investors have to choose how to allocate their mind share with the precious capital they have. — Chamath Palihapitiya
Skillful investors, risk, stability, dependability of value, relationship between price and value — Howard Marks
Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it. — Benjamin Graham
Correlation, diversification, risk control — Howard Marks
Value and growth, value today, value tomorrow, growth investing, value investing, analysis, current wealth — Howard Marks
Investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business and How to Think About Market Prices — Warren Buffett
Prudent investing is all about buying the right assets at the right price. — Naved Abdali
Skillful risk control is the mark of the superior investor. — Howard S. Marks
Differences in correlation, portfolio management — Howard Marks
Short Investment Management Quotes
Smart investing doesn't consist of buying good assets, but of buying assets well. — Howard Marks
Investment is somewhat like cricket, where you change your game plan as per the format. — Vijay Kedia
Fundamentals, value, price, successful investing — Howard Marks
Diversification is an established tenet of conservative investment. — Benjamin Graham
Investing performance is what happens when events collide with an existing portfolio. — Howard Marks
The decision to invest in an asset class must be rational, not emotional. — Naved Abdali
Investing is a business, investment is a project and investor is a promoter. — Vijay Kedia
Investing is a hard area for most people to figure out what to do. — Howard Marks
Investment success, position, uncomfortable, popular opinion — Howard Marks
Your investment belongs to the market and your profits belong to you. — Vijay Kedia
Your body will be around a lot longer than that expensive handbag. Invest in yourself.
About Investment Quotes
One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am. — Michelle Obama
One of my great pleasures from the study of investing, finance, and economics is the discovery of insights about people and society. — Edward O. Thorp
I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice.
You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense. — Warren Buffett
Management is doing things right; Leadership is doing the right things.
The important thing to remember about investing is that it is not sufficient to set up a portfolio that will survive on average. The key is to survive at the low end. — Howard Marks
Cleaners don’t care about instant gratification. The invest in the long-term payoff. — Tim Grover
Maybe it makes me old-fashioned, but investing to me is about owning great companies for many, many years. — Francois Rochon
Travel is an investment in yourself.
Investing is not about being right all the time; it is about being patient and disciplined. — Gautam Baid
Ever wonder about those people who spend $2 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backward. — George Carlin
In the long run, investing is not about markets at all. Investing is about enjoying the returns earned by businesses. — John C. Bogle
To finance longer life spans, we must convince individuals to start investing now for the long term. But longevity should be an asset that can be levered, not a curse. They must understand that there's a cost to sitting in cash. No one talks about that cost. — Larry Fink
Finance Investment Quotes
If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need. — Warren Buffett
Gold miners have incentive to conceal & minimize the full extent of their reserves, increase their capacity aggressively, and mine more gold as fast as they can. They are the enemies of gold investors. It’s a hopelessly antiquated system for storing value in the 21st century. — Michael Saylor
I’d compare stock pickers to astrologers but I don’t want to bad mouth astrologers. — Eugene Fama
Save your love for the one who's worth the investment.
By lowering the barrier to create new digital currency applications, we'll see an explosion in the number of ideas tried. We'll invest in, partner with, or build a number of new applications in this space, including replacements for many of the services people use in finance 1.0. — Brian Armstrong
Bitcoin is the most compelling monetary asset to emerge in 500 years. — Michael Saylor
If you want to improve how you manage your time, stop doing what doesn't need to be done.
My philosophy is that all stocks are bad. There are no good stocks unless they go up in price. If they go down instead, you have to cut your losses fast Letting losses run is the most serious mistake made by most investors. — William O'Neil
The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket. — American Proverbs
Understanding the value of a business is more important than predicting its short-term stock price movements. — Gautam Baid
You know, a balance-sheet is like a bikini, it shows more but it hides what is vital. I learned to read a balance sheet and then I got fascinated by stocks. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
Investment Strategies Quotes
Understanding and dealing correctly with the trade-off between risk and return is a fundamental, but poorly understood, challenge faced by all gamblers and investors. — Edward O. Thorp
I learned from great investors like Warren Buffett and Peter Lynch that you have to look at stocks not based on world events or economic data but almost in spite of them. — Francois Rochon
If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die. — Warren Buffett
Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop — Gertrude Stein
Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it. — Albert Einstein
Entrepreneurship isn't about luck, it's about vision, time management, creativity, determination and goals.
Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet! — Benjamin Franklin
Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source. — Warren Buffett
Let me tell you this and I want to really emphasize it...nothing is going to help Nigeria like Nigerians bringing back their money. If you give me $5 billion today, I will invest everything here in Nigeria. Let us put our heads together and work. — Aliko Dangote
How you manage truth greatly affects how you manage your life.
Someone stole all my credit cards, but I won't be reporting it. The thief spends less than my wife did — Henny Youngman
One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements. — Dennis Hastert
So this is the goal: To make money by increasing net profit, while simultaneously increasing return on investment, and simultaneously increasing cash flow. — Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Investing favors the dispassionate. Markets efficiently separate emotional investors from their money. — Naval Ravikant
Asset Allocation Quotes
As investors rotate out of Bonds in search of a Store of Value, they are forced to choose between Gold and Big Tech. — Michael Saylor
The most important thing you can have is a good strategic asset allocation mix. So, what the investor needs to do is have a balanced, structured portfolio – a portfolio that does well in different environments…. we don't know that we're going to win. We have to have diversified bets. — Ray Dalio
You should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold. — Ray Dalio
The most important key to successful investing can be summed up in just two words-asset allocation. — Michael Leboeuf
I don't often know where my ideas come from. Maybe it's the fact that I'm obsessively regimented in my analysis, borderline autistic. But whether it's bond selection or asset allocation, we can do it better than just about anybody around. — Jeffrey Gundlach
The difference between success and failure is not which stock you buy or which piece of real estate you buy, it's asset allocation. — Tony Robbins
An asset allocation plan is based on your personal circumstances, goals, time-horizon, and need and willingness to take risk. — Michael Leboeuf
We attracted a lot of market timers and asset allocators. I don't need those ... amateurs in my fund. — Martin J. Whitman
The conventional asset-allocation method is like sheet music. It is prescribed, it has right answers and wrong answers and it sounds about the same every time. But jamming is different. Jamming is when you make the music. When you improvise and adapt to conditions. When you are creative. — John Kao
Investment Success Quotes
Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. — Warren Buffett
We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest. — Warren Buffett
Ultimately the fundamentals will determine the outcome. — Bill Ackman
For investing to be reliably successful, an accurate estimate of intrinsic value is the indispensable starting point. — Howard Marks
Wendy’s was a really good investment for us, making the fund a few hundred million, which was sizable as a percent of our total assets at the time. Wendy’s set us up for McDonald's. — Bill Ackman
It's not what you buy, it's what you pay. And success in investing doesn't come from buying good things, but from buying things well. And if you don't know the difference, you're in the wrong business. — Howard Marks
Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes. — John C. Bogle
Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack! — John C. Bogle
Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing. — J. Paul Getty
No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. — Warren Buffett
Successful Investing Quotes
The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything. — Warren Buffett
You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. — Warren Buffett
To be a successful investor, one has to be emotionally stable and maintain a long-term perspective. — Gautam Baid
Price and value, investment success — Howard Marks
Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth. — Paul Clitheroe
Investment success doesn’t come from ‘buying good things, but rather from ‘buying things well.’ — Howard S. Marks
The goal of a successful trader is to make the best trades. Money is secondary. — Alexander Elder
Success in investing is not about being right all the time. It’s about minimizing losses and maximizing gains. — Jim Simons
Invest in yourself. Continuous learning and personal growth are key to success. — Steven Bartlett
You will be successful as long as you make your life decisions based on your own value system and not others… — Peggy Whitson
Financial Investment Quotes
Take Charge Of Your Financial Future. I believe investing small amounts each month in the stock market will give you financial freedom in the later years of your life. — Bo Sanchez
Only those who are asleep make no mistakes. — Ingvar Kamprad
It will bring financial inclusion, investment, tourism, innovation and economic development for our country. — Nayib Bukele
If you eat, invest, and think according to what the ‘news’ advocates, you’ll end nutritionally, financially, and morally bankrupt. — Naval Ravikant
The videos that I post every day are averaging 7 million views per day. And I post one of those a day. I spend an average of $200 a day to make that. The Disney show that I'm on, they spend $2 million over the course of five days to create one episode that gets 1.7 million views. — Jake Paul
When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute. — Simon Sinek
The financial crisis and the Great Recession left firms with excess capacity, reducing incentives to invest. — Jerome Powell
To become financially independent you must turn part of your income into capital; turn capital into enterprise; turn enterprise into profit; turn profit into investment; and turn investment into financial independence. — Jim Rohn
Financial history is the most important thing to study for anyone seeking to avoid the mistakes of the past. — Russell Napier
Successful Investment Quotes
Stay with your most successful stock investments as long as they are increasing their earnings. — Thomas Phelps
The biggest differentiator that sets your company apart from competitors is your commitment to long-term success. — Vladimer Botsvadze
In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine. — Benjamin Graham
When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: 'we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year. — Warren Buffett
There is a big difference between ‘investing’ and ‘speculating.’ Knowing that difference is critical to success. — Russell Napier
The key to successful investing is to think long term and ignore short-term noise. — Raoul Pal
The greatest enemy of investment success is overconfidence. — Raoul Pal
Patience is the rarest and most valuable trait of a successful investor. — Gautam Baid
In investing, luck may occasionally give you a boost, but it’s the rigorous analysis and discipline that sustain long-term success. — Jim Simons
Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing. — Warren Buffett
Investment Banking Quotes
International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief. — Joseph Stiglitz
The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. — Matt Taibbi
The movement is called World Mobile, and we believe that we can connect the unconnected and bank the unbanked before 2030… — Micky Watkins
If the public understands the central bank's views on the economy and monetary policy, then households and businesses will take those views into account in making their spending and investment plans; policy will be more effective as a result. — Jerome Powell
Bitcoin is a bank that can't lend out, invest, gamble, dilute, debase, freeze, or seize your assets. It works all the time, everywhere in the world, and is unstoppable. — Michael Saylor
Now that I do have money in my bank account, I want to help kids with a background similar to mine to get smart about their money. — 21 Savage
If you can't find any companies that you think are attractive, put your money in the bank until you discover some. — Peter Lynch
My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking. — Douglass North
Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now. — William J. Clinton
I have great, great confidence in our capital markets and in our financial institutions. Our financial institutions, banks and investment banks, are strong. Our capital markets are resilient. They're efficient. They're flexible. — Henry Paulson
Never ask a barber if you need a haircut. — Warren Buffett
Was talking to a pension fund manager. He said it’s risky to NOT be invested in Bitcoin. Things are changing. — Samson Mow
Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains. — John C. Bogle
We invest generally in very good companies that have lost their way. And with better management, enormous value can be created. — Bill Ackman
The problem with fiat is that simply maintaining the wealth you already own requires significant active management and expert decision-making. You need to develop expertise in portfolio allocation, risk management, stock and bond valuation, real estate markets, credit markets, global macro trends, national and international monetary policy, commodity markets, geopolitics, and many other arcane and highly specialized fields in order to make informed investment decisions that allow you to maintain the wealth you already earned. You effectively need to earn your money twice with fiat, once when you work for it, and once when you invest it to beat inflation. The simple gold coin saved you from all of this before fiat. — Saifedean Ammous
In MBIA...we were short for seven years before the stock went from $73 to $3. — Bill Ackman
Ain't only three things to gambling: knowing the 60-40 end of the proposition, money management, and knowing yourself. — Puggy Pearson
After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years, people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them. — Marshall Goldsmith
Casino gambling with a system where you have the edge is a wonderful teacher for elementary money management. — Edward O. Thorp
The key is in not spending time, but in investing it. — Stephen Covey
You can’t get taught how to manage money by somebody that’s poor. — 21 Savage
Many of the great financial disasters we’ve seen have been failures to foresee and manage risk. — Howard S. Marks
Most investors are pretty smart. Yet most investors also remain heavily invested in actively managed stock funds. This is puzzling. The temptation, of course, is to dismiss these folks as ignorant fools. But I suspect these folks know the odds are stacked against them, and yet they are more than happy to take their chances. — Jonathan Clements
Markets are efficient, but there are different dimensions of risk and those lead to different dimensions of expected returns. That's what people should be concerned with in their investment decisions and not with whether they can pick stocks, pick winners and losers among the various managers delivering basically the same product. — Eugene Fama
Smart money is just dumb money that’s been through a crash. — Naval Ravikant
It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits. — Charles Jaffe
I can't figure out why anyone invests in active management, so asking me about hedge funds is just an extreme version of the same question. Since I think everything is appropriately priced, my advice would be to avoid high fees. So you can forget about hedge funds. — Eugene Fama
When do stockholders get no benefit from retained earnings? One way is when managements pile up cash and liquid assets far beyond any present or prospective needs for the business. — Philip Arthur Fisher
If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers. — Dee Hock
Active management is a zero-sum game before cost, and the winners have to win at the expense of the losers. — Eugene Fama
Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
We [at Soros Fund Management] use options and more exotic derivatives sparingly. We try to catch new trends early and in later stages we try to catch trend reversals. Therefore, we tend to stabilize rather than destabilize the market. We are not doing this as a public service. It is our style of making money. — George Soros
The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns. — Benjamin Graham
Of one thing the investor can be certain: A large company's need to bring in a new chief executive from the outside is a damning sign of something basically wrong with the existing management - no matter how good the surface signs may have been as indicated by the most recent earnings statement. — Philip Arthur Fisher
Active management strategies demand uninstitutional behavior from institutions, creating a paradox that few can unravel. Establishing and maintaining an unconventional investment profile requires acceptance of uncomfortably idiosyncratic portfolios, which frequently appear downright imprudent in the eyes of conventional wisdom. — David F. Swensen
If you don't invest in risk management, it doesn't matter what business you're in, it's a risky business. — Gary Cohn
Most investors would be better off in an index fund. — Peter Lynch
Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application. — Voltaire
The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it. — Stephen Covey
The investor's chief problem - and even his worst enemy - is likely to be himself. — Benjamin Graham
Fund investors are confident that they can easily select superior fund managers. They are wrong. — John C. Bogle
A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business — Charlie Munger
Inside any important philanthropy meeting, you witness heads of state meeting with investment managers and corporate leaders. All are searching for answers with their right hand to problems that others in the room have created with their left. — Peter Buffett
Many stock options in the corporate world have worked in exactly that fashion: they have gained in value simply because management retained earnings, not because it did well with the capital in its hands. — Warren Buffett
Risk managers and investment bankers and actually, all kinds of investors took on more risk than they expected. So there was a failure of risk management. There was a failure to recognize how much risk there was in some of these securities that people bought. — Robert F. Engle
I've never invested in any airline. I'm an airline manager. I don't invest in airlines. And I always said to the employees of American, 'This is not an appropriate investment. It's a great place to work and it's a great company that does important work. But airlines are not an investment.' — Robert Crandall
Our goal is long-term growth in revenue and absolute profit - so we invest aggressively in future innovation while tightly managing our short-term costs. — Larry Page
When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever. — Warren Buffett
It's natural that you'd have more brains going into money management. There are so many huge incomes in money management and investment banking - it's like ants to sugar. There are huge incentives for a man to take up money management as opposed to, say, physics, and it's a lot easier. — Charlie Munger
Real investment risk is measured not by the percent that a stock may decline in price in relation to the general market in a given period, but by the danger of a loss of quality and earnings power through economic changes or deterioration in management. — Benjamin Graham
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