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
Mind-blowing Investment Success quotations
We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop


Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.
Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks.
Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes.
Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!

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.
No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.
You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.
Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth.
The goal of a successful trader is to make the best trades. Money is secondary.

Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.
In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.
When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: 'we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year.

Diversification is a protection against ignorance.
It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing.
A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.
Most successful investors, in fact, do nothing most of the time.

Very successful people say no to almost everything.
Successful investing professionals are disciplined and consistent and they think a great deal about what they do and how they do it.
Long-term investment success is almost totally a function of how one emotionally handles declines in the equity market, as opposed to how one's portfolio handles them.

The best way to measure your investing success is not by whether you're beating the market but by whether you've put in place a financial plan and a behavioral discipline that are likely to get you where you want to go.
For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth.
But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.
Investment success cannot be captured in a mathematical equation or a computer program.

The ability to change one's mind is probably a key characteristic of the successful investor. Dogmatic and rigid personalities rarely, if ever, succeed in the markets. The markets are a dynamic process, and sustained investment success requires the ability to modify and even change strategies as markets evolve.
Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.
Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.
Your success in investing will depend in part on your character and guts, and in part on your ability to realize at the height of ebullience and the depth of despair alike that this too shall pass.

The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.'
The key to investment success is emotional discipline.
Making money has nothing to do with intelligence. To be a successful investor, you have to be able to admit mistakes. I trained a guy to trade who had a 188 IQ. He was on "Jeopardy" once and answered every question correctly. That same person never made a dime in trading during 5 years!
In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.

Your ultimate success or failure will depend on your ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow your investments to succeed.
You don't need to be a rocket scientist.
Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.
Investors have very short memories
Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
If you're not working to get your business or investing operation to operate without you, you're thinking too small. Think team and systems.