Investing Quotes · Page 89

Sometimes on Broadway, you don't know who the investors are, and you end up making a million dollars for somebody awful.

— John Tiffany

If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.

— Norman Ralph Augustine

The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock, as their traditions and the scanty remains of their language combine to…

— J. B. Bury

Typically in a panic, corporate bonds sell off as investors fear weaker growth, tighter financial conditions, or need liquidity.

— Kelly Evans

The Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market.

— Charles R. Morris

OLD: Be No.1 or No.2 in Your Market. NEW: Find a Niche, Create Something New.

— Tom Peters

“the risk-free rate should be normalized in some way before being used to assess riskier investments.”

— Howard Marks

I invest in funds myself even though I run my own fund for my daughters.

— Jim Cramer

“Enclosure gave an owner control over his land and allowed him to gain the full rewards of managing the land. This increased…

— Edward A. Hudson

I was educated to think maybe Brazil works, maybe it doesn't. But I decided I am going to make this country work…

— Eike Batista

During the Enlightenment, there were brilliant thinkers who realized that, if you assume most people are naturally selfish and you construct the…

— Rutger Bregman

“Because each person was only allowed to convert a maximum of 100,000 won (around US$30–40 at the time, according to black market…

— Daniel Tudor

By overhauling current rules and speeding the entry of competitors in the market, we encourage competition and provide our constituents with new…

— Melissa Bean

In my experience over the past 30 years in business, investment decisions can be slowed or stopped due to unpredictability in laws…

— Borje Ekholm

Marylanders have led the nation in adopting a balanced approach to revenues and investments because we know that in order to maintain…

— Martin O'Malley

The exact details of how you practice value investing will vary investor to investor, but the fundamental principle of scouring the world,…

— Whitney Tilson

One of our great strength, world capitalism, is the most successful economic system possible, but has also become one of shorter and…

— Arthur Demarest

One of the best investors around, Joel Greenblatt, has written a popular, charming and funny book about investing in great companies at…

— David Einhorn

I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your…

— Socrates

I went to see the stock exchange when I was 18 years old. I'm not a Wall Street lawyer, I'm a Stanwix…

— Keith Rothfus

“Again the ranch is on the market and they’ve shipped out the last of the horses, paid everybody off the day before,…

— Annie Proulx

One day, because they realize for some reason or other that they must stop credit expansion, the banks do stop creating new…

— Ludwig von Mises

A new product, technology, or innovation - such as Bitcoin - has the potential to give rise both to frauds and high-risk…

— Perianne Boring

I want to open up investment even further so over the summer we'll launch a consultation on indirect investments in social enterprises…

— David Gauke

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools.

— Barack Obama

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

— Robert Kiyosaki

It's human nature to be optimistic. Any fool can enter a market, it takes talent to exit consistently and profitably.

— Jeff Cooper

As a whole, investors should welcome attempts to safeguard the integrity of markets. You need very clear rules applied to markets.

— Mohamed El-Erian

A speculator gambles that a stock will go up in price because somebody else will pay even more for it.

— Benjamin Graham

I found the stock market very intriguing because prices used to fluctuate, I used to wonder why the price fluctuates.

— Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

— Warren Buffett

The markets are the world's greatest Rubik's cube. And I love solving puzzles.

— Rick Santelli

The purpose of investing is not to simply optimise returns and make yourself rich. The purpose is not to die poor.

— William J. Bernstein

In India, the investment banking industry is a little different. Overseas, the structures are very complicated, but not in India.

— Arundhati Bhattacharya

Moved up to Bentley with more chrome from a Lexus key. All because we cornered the market on that Texas tee.

— UGK

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

— Mark Twain

There are no bad business and investment opportunities, but there are bad entrepreneurs and investors.

— Robert Kiyosaki

When you look at whether a company is a monopoly or not, the first thing you look at is what kind of…

— Andy Jassy

The globally constituted accident can be compared to what people who work at the stock exchange call 'systemic risk'.

— Paul Virilio

“Market and price, then design, then build. In other words, design the product around the price. Think”

— Madhavan Ramanujam