Investors Quotes · Page 24

One measure for promoting both stability and fairness across financial market segments is a small sales tax on all financial transactions -…

— Robert Pollin

Fund investors are confident that they can easily select superior fund managers. They are wrong.

— John C. Bogle

Investors operate with limited funds and intelligence, they do not need to know everything. As long as they understand something better than…

— George Soros

We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

— Warren Buffett

“Instead of stocks investors should invest in blankets, that way they’ll at least have something to keep them warm after they’ve lost…

— Amy Riekhof

I still believe that for good business analysts a concentrated portfolio is a good strategy combined with a long term horizon. Once…

— Joel Greenblatt

I can't figure the stock market out. I think it's wacky. I have done well with a long-term strategy and will continue…

— Scott McNealy

Near the top of the market, investors are extraordinarily optimistic because they've seen mostly higher prices for a year or two. The…

— Martin Zweig

It is very hard, if not impossible," he wrote in his study, "to justify active management for most individual, taxable investors, if…

— Mark Hulbert

We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and businessmen. Thirty years ago,…

— Warren Buffett

"Average" isn't so hot at the race track given those steep track takes. "Average" is pretty decent for stocks, something like 6…

— William Poundstone

Investors will sort of like write the check and then, despite a lot of promises, don't usually do that much; sometimes they…

— Sam Altman

Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That's because, when you invest…

— Robert Kiyosaki

If you expect to be a net saver during the next 5 years, should you hope for a higher or lower stock…

— Warren Buffett

There's a lot of bad information about TV Azteca in the market, but that's always an opportunity for smart and savvy investors.

— Ricardo Salinas Pliego

I’ve learned many things from him [George Soros], but perhaps the most significant is that it’s not whether you’re right or wrong…

— Stanley Druckenmiller

Understanding how to be a good investor makes you a better business manager and vice versa.

— Charlie Munger

Investors have to remember: corporate profits are going up, but stocks are going up faster. How can that continue indefinitely? Investors can…

— Warren Buffett

Commissions add up, taxes are a big drag, margin ain't cheap. A good accountant costs money as well. The math on this…

— Barry Ritholtz

You have to make the shift from being a consumer in the economy to becoming an owner-and you do it by becoming…

— Tony Robbins

The psychology of the saver and the psychology of the investor is very closely connected with Keynes' distinction between risk and uncertainty.…

— Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky

The speculator is not an investor.

— Edwin Lefevre

Practical investors usually learn their problem is finding enough outstanding investments, rather than choosing among too many.

— Philip Arthur Fisher

There are no safeguards that can protect the emotional investor from himself.

— J. Paul Getty

The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.

— Warren Buffett