Investing Quotes · Page 111

You don’t make money when you buy stocks. And you don’t make money when you sell stocks. You make money by waiting.

— Mohnish Pabrai

From my experience, there are so many regulations for investing in the United States that they become an impediment, a barrier to…

— Michael Otto

If you think your initial market might be too big, it almost certainly is.

— Peter Thiel

You can't succeed in the markets today unless you are part of a great team. The team is the essence of how…

— Kenneth C. Griffin

People in emerging markets want to do business with the U.K. I don't see why the U.K. should be penalised for this.

— Theo Paphitis

“Chase the story behind the stock, not the money on the table. Money will make you rich, but the story will make…

— Vijay Kedia

The record of a month's roulette playing at Monte Carlo can afford us material for discussing the foundations of knowledge.

— Karl Pearson

Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.

— Wang Jianlin

Cryptography [without system integrity] is like investing in an armored car to carry money between a customer living in a cardboard box…

— Gene Spafford

The gains from specialization go all the way back to Adam Smith. He talked about the advantage of a bigger market being…

— Paul Romer

In times of stress, it is easy to look to one's weaknesses and fear the worst, but it is worth remembering that…

— Munira Mirza

Whatever I was writing at the time, I knew there was no market for it and never would be, because there’s never…

— Nell Zink

Every once in a while you must go to cash, take a break, take a vacation. Don't try to play the market…

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

The reason I invest in technology is it's the only work humans do that actually is creative. All other types of economic…

— D.A. Wallach

There is very little difference between speculation and investment. The only difference is basically that investments are successful speculations because if you…

— George Soros

Targeting investment returns leads investors to focus on potential upside rather on downside risk ... rather than targeting a desired rate of…

— Seth Klarman

We must continue to liberalise the single market, cut red tape and basically create a digital single market. We have not completed…

— Alexander Stubb

If there are dollars to be made, you destroy the environment. The reason is elementary. The people who are going to be…

— Noam Chomsky

“From my perspective, there wasn’t much difference between a socialist movement, a nationalist movement, and a brutal brawl in the black market.…

— Masaji Ishikawa

Ignorance, as well as disapproval for the natural restraints placed on market excesses that capitalism and sound markets impose, cause our present…

— Ron Paul

Suffice it to say that Wall Street investors in the drug industries have used the government to unleash and transform their economic…

— Douglas Valentine

“And now a look at the financial markets. You will turn yourself inside out. Your sadness will know no bounds. Ladybugs will…

— Joseph Fink

“Direct-sold retail funds can be great for investors, but sometimes they can work against the fund companies that market them. Throughout the…

— Pat Dorsey

“His morning hours were set apart for the nourishment of his own soul; not, however, with the view of laying up a…

— Andrew Bonar

“Some burglars are vermin, they're no better than, well, investment bankers - there, I've said it.”

— Ian Pattison

When stock prices are rising, it's called ''momentum investing''; when they are falling, it's called ''panic.''

— Paul Krugman

Here’s my prediction: Ninety percent of what everyone will drink will be red wine, and one of the biggest markets will be…

— Kevin Zraly

So if you are evaluating others (or yourself!) in the investment field, think out some standards - apply them - interpret them.

— Warren Buffett

The idea is to buy when the probability is greatest that the market is going to advance.

— Martin Zweig

The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fishbowl and tells you their point of view.

— Mario Gabelli

Warren is a very good judge of people and he's a very good judge of businesses.

— Walter Schloss

It's possible to have more than one interest. I've been a painter and did summer stock.

— Arne Glimcher

Your health is a long-range investment that will pay-off when you need it most.

— Anonymous

There's a very thin market and the banks seem to be taking their toll on the market.

— Tom Green

You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.

— Reid Hoffman

Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical

— Amartya Sen

The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“Prohibitionism violates the fundamental law of market economy, which led to the emergence of a thriving shadow economy.”

— Jeffrey Dhywood

I don't know if I ever entertained an academic career, nor did I ever think I'd become a feature film-maker in the…

— Todd Haynes

You know there might, I say there just might be a market for bottled duck.

— Foghorn Leghorn