Investing Quotes · Page 101

Less volatile stocks tend to have negative abnormal profits; more volatile stocks tend to have positive abnormal profits.

— Robert Haugen

The sillier the market's behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor.

— Benjamin Graham

Slow investing can have the same impact on startups that slow food has had on cuisine: good things come to those who…

— Glenn Kelman

When the housing market fell in Las Vegas, we got so many Rolex and Tag Heuer watches it was ridiculous.

— Corey Harrison

You have to manage money. Particularly with market economies. You may have a great product, but if your bottom line goes bust,…

— Mukesh Ambani

Nobody beats the market, they say. Except for those of those of us who do.

— David Dreman

You know, when you sell real estate, that's not like going out and selling a stock. That takes a long time.

— Donald Trump

I've never asked anyone to invest in what I'm doing unless I'm willing to put some skin in the game myself.

— Doug Burgum

The period of financial distress is a gradual decline after the peak of a speculative bubble that precedes the final and massive…

— Charles P. Kindleberger

A weakness of the random-walk model lies in its assumption of instantaneous adjustment, whereas the information impelling a stock market toward its…

— Richard Arnold Epstein

I have no doubt that my M.B.A. from New York University's Stern School of Business was one of the best investments I…

— Vivek Wadhwa

It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to…

— Lewis Thomas

I was at UC Berkeley as an undergrad when my father lost a lot of money in real estate investments in Northern…

— Maz Jobrani

As a designer, you are flattered to see anyone in one of your designs, whether it's on a red carpet or passing…

— Lauren Conrad

“Over the years, that investors continued to fund Pike's grandiose predictions, the price of coal was high enough to send men day…

— Rebecca Macfie

Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforcement and incarceration costs, while providing many billions of dollars…

— George Soros

We have legislated to protect the public from tax rises and guarantee incomes for pensioners, so enshrining in law more protections for…

— Priti Patel

My dishes tend to have a very carefree style: what's ripe at the farmers market or what's in my fridge, even if…

— Darby Stanchfield

Worker-owned co-ops, on their own, floating in the market, tend to replicate the behavior of worker-owned capitalists in some circumstances. They sometimes…

— Gar Alperovitz

One of the dangers about net-net investing is that if you buy a net-net that begins to lose money your net-net goes…

— Peter Cundill

While some might mistakenly consider value investing a mechanical tool for identifying bargains, it is actually a comprehensive investment philosophy that emphasizes…

— Seth Klarman

I think I entered the market around the time when there was getting to be less snobbery about the difference between feature…

— Joe Dante

we have complaints that institutional dominance of the stock market has put 'the small investor at a disadvantage because he can't compete…

— Benjamin Graham

Finding a single investment that will return 20% per year for 40 years tends to happen only in dreamland. In the real…

— Charlie Munger

Never, ever invest money that you will need prior to three to five years - minimum.

— Suze Orman

When laissez-faire creates instability, the move to a freer market can be something less than pure gain.

— Robert Kuttner

Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market.

— Jason Calacanis

Never mingle your speculative and investment operations in the same account nor in any part of your thinking.

— Benjamin Graham

I cannot invest the way I want the world to be; I have to invest the way the world is.

— Jim Rogers

There's always a fine line between 'What is the market going to bear?' and, 'By the way, I've got 2,000 unsold seats.'

— Michael Rapino

We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The market groups and demographics said, 'Teenage guys don't read magazines.'

— Spike Jonze

In practice, a good deal of the outcomes produced by the market reflect nothing more than luck - good or bad.

— Robert Kuttner

“Scholars have long debated whether capital markets lead to appropriate levels of saving and investment for future generations.”

— David L. Weimer

Where you really get in trouble is if the market is dropping and the economy's slowing down and you don't take action.

— Alan Mulally

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than…

— Laozi

I don't think anybody ever makes any money buying and selling stock. They have to make money by keeping the stock.

— Donald Sultan

Climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen

— Nicholas Stern

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a…

— George Soros

For all long-term investors, there is only one objective-maximum total real return after taxes.

— John Templeton