For me, seed investing isn't just a good return area but a big part of how we network in Silicon Valley. A… — Joe Lonsdale Copy Share Image
Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that… — Maria Bartiromo Copy Share Image
There are no new fundamentals. You've got to be a little suspicious of someone who says, "I've got a new fundamental." That's… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
“Being an entrepreneur takes many hours of the day, and if your entrepreneur is a late riser or an early quitter, it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ever since its founding in 1913, the Fed has described itself as an "independent" agency operated by selfless public servants striving to… — Thomas DiLorenzo Copy Share Image
Investing in auto companies and ensuring a financial collapse didn't lead not from a recession to a great depression may not have… — Robert Gibbs Copy Share Image
It's 1450 out of 1500 ETF funds that I just wouldn't touch because they're not diversified enough. Or they have some huge… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
“If you want to become a consistently profitable day trader, you need to be formally trained and mentored by a seasoned veteran...anything… — Josh DiPietro Copy Share Image
This idea of anticipation is key to investing and to business generally. You can't wait for an opportunity to become obvious. You… — Edward Lampert Copy Share Image
Outperforming the market with low volatility on a consistent basis is an impossibility. I outperformed the market for 30-odd years, but not… — George Soros Copy Share Image
“Several researchers have found that companies that spend the most time offering guidance on quarterly earnings deliver significantly lower long-term growth rates… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
In essence, the stock market represents three separate categories of business.They are, adjusted for inflation, those with shrinking intrinsic value, those with… — Michael Burry Copy Share Image
“The profit lure of mass production obviously has a place in the plans and strategy of business management, but it must always… — Harvard Business School Press Copy Share Image
If you jump into a market when everyone else is doing the same thing, you're probably too late. On the other hand,… — Michael Maloney Copy Share Image
Building a startup community is not a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers: if everyone engages, they and the… — Brad Feld Copy Share Image
Selling, in particular, can be a challenge; many investors are tempted to become more optimistic when a security is performing well. This… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Berkshire's past record has been almost ridiculous. If Berkshirehad used even half the leverage of, say, Rupert Murdoch, it would be five… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We will prosper or suffer in controlled investments in relation to the operating performances of our businesses - we will not attempt… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“If it is a real movement, in a short space of time the natural, normal reaction will have been recovered, and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The strategy of buying what's in favor is a fool's errand, ensuring long-term underperformance. Only by standing against the prevailing winds -… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
“Security analysis cannot presume to lay down general rules as to the "proper value" of any given common stock... The prices of… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
When I took the entrepreneurship class at Stanford, the first lecture was about an entrepreneur and his personality. They described it as… — Phil Knight Copy Share Image
Speculation is an effort, probably unsuccessful, to turn a little money into a lot. Investment is an effort, which should be successful,… — Fred Schwed Jr Copy Share Image
Doing a me-too business, because it's you - the only person who cares about that is you. The market doesn't care if… — Stephen A. Schwarzman Copy Share Image
While everyone would love to have that perfect portfolio of stocks that can be bought and held forever, it usually does not… — Whitney Tilson Copy Share Image
The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
When you are making a decision about how best to serve your customers, your own experience is often a better guide than… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“10. Stores have massively excessive verbal communication. Products and packaging are a significant part of the clutter. Using iconic images, colors, shapes,… — Herb Sorensen Copy Share Image
A mutual fund can do for you what you would do for yourself if you had sufficient time, training, and money to… — Venita VanCaspel Copy Share Image
First, you must have entrepreneurs who fully grasp their customers. They understand their product so well because they themselves are customers. The… — Craig Sherman Copy Share Image
The grim irony of investing, then, is that we investors as a group not only don't get what we pay for, we… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Monetary policy is like juggling six balls... it is not 'interest rate up, interest rate down.' There is the exchange rate, there… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
The nation's largest savings and loan, Washington Mutual, has become the biggest bank failure in history. See, the problem with the savings… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The real challenge was to model all the interest rates simultaneously, so you could value something that depended not only on the… — John Hull Copy Share Image
Venture-capital firms invest in trends by projecting returns. But most projections are pretty much bogus, and research shows that experts are no… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
“Bubbles form when too many people expect values to go up forever. Bubbles burst when there are no longer enough excessively optimistic… — Glenn Harlan Reynolds Copy Share Image
What caused 2008, in my opinion, is that people just didn't see the risk. These people that took on all this risk… — John Manley Copy Share Image
I really don't want the highlight of my life to be my success as an investor. Genuinely. My idea of death would… — Tom Steyer Copy Share Image
THE CORRECTION, when it finally came, was not an overnight bursting of a bubble but a much more gentle letdown, a year-long… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
