Investing famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
-- Adam Smith -
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
-- Adam Smith -
Stop spending your time; start investing your time.
-- Al Duncan -
My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international.
-- Al-Waleed bin Talal -
I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.
-- Alan Greenspan -
China is doing lots of things right. It's investing in education and R&D, it's opening up, it's more cosmopolitan than it's ever been. I think it's very likely that China will continue to explode economically and certainly become a superpower.
-- Amy Chua -
Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important
-- Anish Kapoor -
Investing in early childhood nutrition is a surefire strategy. The returns are incredibly high.
-- Anne M. Mulcahy -
But when that information travels only to a privileged few, when it is used to profit at the expense of the investing public, when that information comes by way of favored access rather than by acumen, insight or diligence, we must ask, 'Whose interest is really being served?'.
-- Arthur Levitt Jr -
And what I'm interested in is investing in people.
-- Arthur Rock -
It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations.
-- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth -
The best approach here if at all possible is to use supervisory and regulatory methods to restrain undue risk-taking and to make sure the system is resilient in case an asset price bubble bursts in the future.
-- Ben Bernanke -
...the Federal Reserve has the capacity to operate in domestic money markets to maintain interest rates at a level consistent with our economic goals
-- Ben Bernanke -
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. When it comes to investing, nothing will pay off more than educating yourself. Do the necessary research, study and analysis before making any investment decisions.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.
-- Benjamin Graham -
Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they are cheap.
-- Benjamin Graham -
As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him.
-- Benjamin Graham -
In trading/ investing it's not about how much you make, but how much you don't lose
-- Bernard Baruch -
Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new.
-- Bob Parsons -
Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new. Make it your goal to be better each and every day, in some small way. Remember the Japanese concept of Kaizen. Small daily improvements eventually result in huge advantages.
-- Bob Parsons -
After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
Anyone who is not investing now is missing a tremendous opportunity.
-- Carlos Slim -
A cell is a complex structure, with its investing membrane, nucleus, and nucleolus.
-- Charles Darwin -
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.
-- Charles Dickens -
In most bull markets there comes a time when the public controls fluctuations and the efforts of the largest operators are insufficient to check the rising tide.
-- Charles Dow -
The period of financial distress is a gradual decline after the peak of a speculative bubble that precedes the final and massive panic and crash, driven by the insiders having exited but the sucker outsiders hanging on hoping for a revivial, but finally giving up in the final collapse.
-- Charles P. Kindleberger -
Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.
-- Charles R. Schwab -
Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.
-- Charlie Munger -
Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.
-- Charlie Munger -
Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.
-- Charlie Munger -
The whole concept of dividing it up into 'value' and 'growth' strikes me as twaddle. It's convenient for a bunch of pension fund consultants to get fees prattling about and a way for one advisor to distinguish himself from another. But, to me, all intelligent investing is value investing.
-- Charlie Munger -
You can talk all you want about having a clear purpose and strategy for your life, but ultimately this means nothing if you are not investing the resources you have in a way that is consistent with your strategy. In the end, a strategy is nothing but good intentions unless it's effectively implemented.
-- Clayton Christensen -
Demanding immediate success invariably leads to playing the fads or fashions currently performing well rather than investing on a solid basis. A course of investment, once charted, should be given time to work out. Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.
-- David Dreman -
Why did God invent economists? To make weathermen feel good about themselves.
-- David I. Rozenberg -
Having fallen from the eternal, the Evil One's desires are endless, insatiable. Having fallen from pure Being, he is driven by the desire to possess, to fill his emptiness. But the problem is insoluble, always. He is compelled to have and to hold, to possess and consume, and nothing else. All he takes, he destroys.
-- Denis de Rougemont -
You are spending millions and millions of dollars of other peoples money when you make a movie. You have to at least approach it in a way where you can see how you can make that money back for the people who are investing.
-- Duncan Jones -
I am investing like a crazy person, mostly in internet start-ups. And I want to invest in Brazil as well, because I am Brazilian and that's in my heart.
-- Eduardo Saverin -
By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow.
-- Elissa Schappell -
By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow. You shortchange yourself by devaluing the experiences and knowledge you've banked, all those things that have been making you, you.
-- Elissa Schappell -
Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public.
-- Gavyn Davies -
If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them.
-- George Orwell -
Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure.
-- George Osborne -
When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.
-- George Soros -
Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
-- George Soros -
The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.
-- George Soros -
If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.
-- George Soros -
Investing solely for 'income,' investing merely 'to keep capital employed,' and investing simply 'to hedge against inflation' are all entirely out of the question.
-- Gerald M. Loeb -
I am not criticizing investing in the stock market; I am an investor.
-- Grace Napolitano -
I find it more enjoyable investing time doing what pleases me, rather than wasting precious time attempting to please everyone else.
-- Greg Reid -
Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.
-- Gro Harlem Brundtland -
The entire pursuit of value investing requires you to see where the crowd is wrong so that you can profit from their misperceptions.
-- Guy Spier -
It is possible to increase paper-money income to any amount by debasing the currency. But real income can only be increased by working harder or more efficiently, saving more, investing more, and producing more.
-- Henry Hazlitt -
The Americans are good about making fancy cars and refrigerators, but that doesn't mean they are any good at making aircraft. They are bluffing. They are excellent at bluffing.
-- Hermann Goring -
Investing in women is not only the right thing to do, but also the smart thing to do.
-- Hillary Clinton -
When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover.
-- Howard Dean -
President Marcos was investing in precious metals long before he entered politics.
-- Imelda Marcos -
The pursuit of things robs me of investing more in the work of Christ.
-- Jack Hyles -
I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
-- Jackie Kennedy -
Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.
-- Jacob Hacker -
Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
-- James Thurber -
The transaction reflects our disciplined strategy of investing capital in core businesses where we can leverage scale and expertise for competitive advantage. In addition to being a great strategic fit, the deal is compelling financially.
-- Jamie Dimon -
Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.
-- Jay Inslee -
We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry.
-- Jay Weatherill -
What we've done last night is what I call pushing back the risks..If there is a risk in a bank, our first question should be 'Okay, what are you in the bank going to do about that? What can you do to recapitalise yourself? If the bank can't do it, then we'll talk to the shareholders and the bondholders, we'll ask them to contribute in recapitalising the bank, and if necessary the uninsured deposit holders.
-- Jeroen Dijsselbloem -
Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.
-- Jerry Pournelle -
The definition of a Dark Age is that we no longer remember what we once could do.
-- Jerry Pournelle -
There is only one side to the stock market; and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side
-- Jesse Lauriston Livermore -
A man must study general conditions, to seize them so as to be able to anticipate probabilities.
-- Jesse Lauriston Livermore -
A prudent speculator never argues with the tape. Markets are never wrong, opinions often are.
-- Jesse Lauriston Livermore -
"If I buy stocks on Smith's tip I must sell those same stocks on Smith's tip. I am depending on him. Suppose Smith is away on a holiday when the selling time comes around?
-- Jesse Lauriston Livermore -
Professional traders have always had some system or other based upon their experience and governed either by their attitude towards speculation or by their desires.
-- Jesse Lauriston Livermore -
Don't take action with a trade until the market, itself, confirms your opinion. Being a little late in a trade is insurance that your opinion is correct. In other words, don't be an impatient trader.
-- Jesse Lauriston Livermore -
Experience has proved to me that real money made in speculating has been in commitments in a stock or commodity showing a profit right from the start.
-- Jesse Lauriston Livermore -
It is literally true that millions come easier to a trader after he knows how to trade, than hundreds did in the days of his ignorance.
-- Jesse Lauriston Livermore -
The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight.
-- Jesse Lauriston Livermore -
Instead of hoping he must fear and instead of fearing he must hope. He must fear that his loss may develop into a much bigger loss, and hope that his profit may become a big profit.
-- Jesse Lauriston Livermore -
I don't know whether I make myself plain, but I never lose my temper over the stock market. I never argue with the tape. Getting sore at the market doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Jesse Lauriston Livermore -
The price pattern reminds you that every movement of importance is but a repetition of similar price movements, that just as soon as you can familiarize yourself with the actions of the past, you will be able to anticipate and act correctly and profitably upon forthcoming movements.
-- Jesse Lauriston Livermore -
It is what people actually did in the stock market that counted - not what they said they were going to do.
-- Jesse Lauriston Livermore -
Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon. I found it one of the hardest things to learn. But it is only after a stock operator has firmly grasped this that he can make big money.
-- Jesse Lauriston Livermore -
Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing
-- Jessica Livingston -
Thats one of the challenges of investing in China, is the lack of clarity with respect to tax positions.
-- Jim Oberweis -
Index investing outperforms active management year after year.
-- Jim Rogers -
As a nation, this is the moment to start seriously investing our time, energy and resources into proven methods of reducing violence, both within our nation as well as internationally. The cost of violence to our culture and our children is simply not sustainable.
-- Joaquin Phoenix -
The secret to investing is to figure out the value of something - and then pay a lot less.
-- Joel Greenblatt -
The grim irony of investing, then, is that we investors as a group not only don't get what we pay for, we get precisely what we don't pay for. So if we pay for nothing, we get everything.
-- John C. Bogle -
Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.
-- John Cusack -
Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
-- John D. Rockefeller -
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith -
Almost every aspect of its (Federal Reserve) history should be approached with a discriminating disregard for what is commonly taught or believed.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith -
The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith -
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith -
Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
-- John Maynard Keynes -
Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
-- John Maynard Keynes -
I take more jobs when I need more money, if I'm investing in films. I take fewer when I don't. Or if something really good comes along, I usually find a way to do a good job on it in the time that I've got.
-- John Sayles -
If I'd only followed CNBC's advice, I'd have a million dollars today. Provided I'd started with a hundred million dollars.
-- Jon Stewart
