Invest in yourself before you invest in stocks.
Stocks are the echoes of the economy.
In the world of stocks, patience is a virtue and research is your guide.
The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.
Investing is not about beating others; it’s about managing yourself.
The stock market is a giant distraction from the business of investing.
Stocks are like a roller coaster – thrilling but not for the faint-hearted.
Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.
Stocks don’t just represent companies; they represent dreams and aspirations.
The stock market is a device for transferring money from the active to the patient.
Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.
The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.
The stock market is designed to transfer money from the active to the patient.
Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.
The stock market is a reflection of human nature – greed, fear, and hope.
In the long run, the stock market is a weighing machine.
Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with a 130 IQ.
Stocks are ownership in businesses, not pieces of paper.
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.
The stock market is a device for transferring money from the inattentive to the attentive.
Investing is about making your money work for you, not working for your money.
The stock market is a journey, not a destination.
Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings.
In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable.
Investing is not about how much you make but rather how much you keep.
Stocks are like the weather – unpredictable, but patterns can be recognized.
The stock market is a giant auction where emotions get traded.
The stock market is a tool for transferring money from the inpatient to the patient.
In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.
Investing is about managing your emotions as much as managing your money.
The stock market is designed to transfer money from the inattentive to the attentive.
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.
Stocks are bought on expectations, not facts.
If stock market experts were experts, they would be buying the stock, not selling advice.
The stock market is a discounter of all known information.
The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.
The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator.
I would not pre-pay. I would invest instead and let the investments cover it.
Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.
Be quick in cutting your loses but not profits
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.
Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get. Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.
Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.
Bottoms in the investment world don’t end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Know what you own, and know why you own it.
How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.
Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
Every once in a while, the market does something so stupid it takes your breath away.
The four most dangerous words in investing are: ‘this time it’s different.’
Gambling with cards or dice or stock is all one thing. It’s getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
You’re neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You’re right because your facts are right and your reasoning is right-and that’s the only thing that makes you right.
It’s not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.
Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.