tede02 Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 What is your favorite investing quote or quotes? I'll start us out with a few of the famous ones that everyone knows: "Be greedy when others are fearful and fearful when others are greedy." Warren Buffett "The key to making money in stocks is to not get scared out of them." Peter Lynch "Investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike." Benjamin Graham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boilermaker75 Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to arbitrage and you feed him forever. (If, however, he studied at the Ivan Boesky School of Arbitrage, it may be a state institution that supplies his meals.),” Warren Buffett. “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. “It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent. There must be some wisdom in the folk saying, It’s the strong swimmers who drown,” Charlie Munger. “A stockbroker is someone who invests your money until it is all gone,” Woody Allen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liberty Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 I have learned that I can only stick it out if I have some grasp on a highly predictable earnings future that presents me with a nearly certain massive earnings yield. Every time I've lost money it has been because I didn't start off with a company with a highly certain future earnings stream that offered a gargantuan earnings yield. -ERICOPOLY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yadayada Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction. Bill gates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otsog Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 “Men lie, women lie, numbers don’t.” - Jay Z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkbabang Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 None of these are specifically about investing, but I think they all apply. I love RAH. "Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events." --Robert A. Heinlein "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." --Robert A. Heinlein "One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others." --Robert A. Heinlein "Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done." --Robert A. Heinlein "Never underestimate the power of human stupidity." --Robert A. Heinlein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
writser Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 The four most dangerous words in investing are: 'this time it's different.' - John Templeton. Earnings fluctuate, assets stay - Walter Schloss. The sceptic investor :) . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alwaysinvert Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 "People are always asking me where the [investing] outlook is good, but that’s the wrong question. The right question is: Where is the outlook most miserable?" - John Templeton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premfan Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Only buy assets that are non-operational and turn it operational - "the wise one" Dont buy assets from a successful businessman. They have milked the cow and you have no cost advantages. Buy from fools that want to build empires. - patel family Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premfan Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Intellectuals think about how to game the system. The willing get there hands dirty and make money. When given a choice partner with the willing. - Bill B. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 50centdollars Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. - Jesse Livermore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubsfan Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 "You make your most money in bear markets, you just don't realize it at the time" - Shelby Cullom Davis "You can either have cheap stocks or you can have good news, but you can't have both" - Joe Rosenberg "In investing, if you are good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten" - Peter Lynch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kraven Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 "I know what you do. You buy a stock and wait for it to be worth more and then you sell it." - my kid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkbabang Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 "I know what you do. You buy a stock and wait for it to be worth more and then you sell it." - my kid Smart kid. Your profession is a little easier to explain than mine. I design integrated circuits. When my son was little I was trying to explain this to him and told him that "I make chips" he asked "Like Doritos?". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yadayada Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 "the way to beat the market is to find a stock that will go up, and if it will not go up, don't buy it" -no idea who said that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
augustabound Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 "the way to beat the market is to find a stock that will go up, and if it will not go up, don't buy it" -no idea who said that Will Rogers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
augustabound Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 At some point you have to stop learning and start thinking I believe his name is Jacob Barnett. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregS Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 "Investing is simple, but not easy." - Buffett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stone19 Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 As long as women won’t save we’re not likely to have many women millionaires in this country. Hetty Green Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkbabang Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 As long as women won’t save we’re not likely to have many women millionaires in this country. Hetty Green I don't know for sure, but I'd guess that the vast majority of millionaires are both straight and married, which means that there would be almost as many women millionaires as men millionaires. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stone19 Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Hetty Green was born in 1834 and made a fortune as financier on Wall St.She is one of my heroes in fact our investment club is named Hetty Green Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
west Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Here's one for all the is-the-market-overvalued? posters out there: "In market analysis there are no margins of safety; you are either right or wrong, and if you are wrong, you lose money." - Benjamin Graham, Security Analysis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
investor-man Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 "Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked." -- Warren Buffett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
compounding Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Every variation of "running through a dynamite factory with a burning match". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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