Most investors are obsessed with the market size today and they don't think about how the market is going to evolve. — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
Many investors prefer comfort, chasing what is popular and loved, rather than pursuing what is out of favor. The markets do not… — Robert D. Arnott Copy Share Image
Any time we would talk to another VC, our investors would talk him out of it: 'This is not a good company'...… — Sabeer Bhatia Copy Share Image
Question: So investors shouldn't delude themselves about beating the market? Answer: "They're just not going to do it. It's just not going… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The successful investor is usually an individual who is inherently interested in business problems. — Philip Arthur Fisher Copy Share Image
GE is falling under the same cloud of the market as a whole. Investors are not focused on the positives that are… — James Fisher Copy Share Image
For investor confidence, it is important that there is certainty about the future of Ireland in E.U. — Jose Manuel Barroso Copy Share Image
Our concerns about what we saw in Australia: an economy clearly tied to China has hitched its wagon to the tail of… — James Chanos Copy Share Image
"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 Copy Share Image
“The best investors are visionaries—they look beyond the present. By the same token, vision remains vision until you focus, do the work,… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working… — Arthur Levitt Copy Share Image
Fannie Mae is owned by shareholders but operates under a federal charter that exempts it from paying state or local taxes. As… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
But if our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
Investors are impatient and they are also desperate for the 'next big thing,' and they are not paying attention to the fact… — Carmen Busquets Copy Share Image
I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think… — James Chanos Copy Share Image
In a world in which most investors appear interested in figuring out how to make money every second and chase the idea… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Miners produce the bullion. If there is going to be more demand for gold from investors and central banks, where is the… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
Below, we itemize some of the quite different lessons investors seem to have learned as of late 2009 - false lessons, we… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
A lot of people with high IQs are terrible investors because they've got terrible temperaments. And that is why we say that… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The inflow of capital from the developed countries is the prerequisite for the establishment of economic dependence. This inflow takes various forms:… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
Given that ever-broadening array of options and alternatives, as consumers and investors, we are often bewildered. We need guidance. That's where today's… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
It can be shown that maximum diversification is achieved by holding each stock in proportion to its value to the entire market… — Jeremy Siegel Copy Share Image
I love what I do. I don't do it for the money. I work on behalf of investors that I like and… — Bill Ackman Copy Share Image
“The most successful startups are those that are able to balance the needs of their customers, employees, and investors, while staying true… — Justin Ho Guo Shun Copy Share Image
It was always a challenge for me to prove that a Russian financial investor can be as successful in the West as… — Alisher Usmanov Copy Share Image
People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don't desire to exhaustive… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards. — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
The need for empowering investors to have information on the way their own money is invested is not going away. — Donald Luskin Copy Share Image
Stock prices aren't real things. They're just froth on a wave. The wave is the only real thing, which investors forget when… — Jane Bryant Quinn Copy Share Image
Everyone told me you can't build a major tech company in Canada. There just aren't enough investors or engineers or top-level managers.… — Ryan Holmes Copy Share Image
You have a class of investors and you have a class of speculators. The speculators historically haven't been big enough to cause… — Jim Cramer Copy Share Image
Your goal, as a creative investor, is to launch your ship into financial orbit ... and then put it on automatic pilot. — Robert G. Allen Copy Share Image
Long-term investing has gotten so popular, it's easier to admit you're a crack addict than to admit you're a short-term investor. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Frankly, there are better things for me to invest in than these hotels. Stewards are really needed for these kind of properties… — Philip Anschutz Copy Share Image
We [Vietnam] happen to offer good investment opportunities for foreigners, although this is not a one-way street. Both we and the foreign… — Nguyen Minh Triet Copy Share Image
I hated discussing ideas with investors, because then I become a Defender of the Idea, and that influences your thought process. — Michael Burry Copy Share Image