If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A pin lies in wait for every bubble and when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
My best advice to individual investors can readily be summed up into two closely linked precepts. Be patient and don't be greedy. — Peter Cundall Copy Share Image
When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The true investor welcomes volatility ... a wildly fluctuating market means that irrationally low prices will periodically be attached to solid businesses. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying… — Amy Goodman Copy Share Image
We next consider the rule that the investor does or should consider expected return a desirable thing and variance of return an… — Harry Markowitz Copy Share Image
It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
While the apostles of the new so-called "behavioral" theory present ample evidence of how often human beings make irrational financial decisions, it… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
If you were at Lehman, the same thing happened. If you were at AIG, the shareholders are getting creamed on these things.… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think the tech stock, the public market is still completely traumatized by the dotcom crash. I think the investors and reporters… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money.… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
The value of the security analyst to the investor depends largely on the investor's own attitude. If the investor asks the analyst… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Steve McClellan has drawn on an insider's lifetime view of how Wall Street really works to produce a practical and entertaining book… — Charles O. Rossotti Copy Share Image
Investors need to pick their poison: Either make more money when times are good and have a really ugly year every so… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
The reader can test his own psychology by asking himself whether he would consider, in retrospect, the selling at 156 in 1925… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Frequent comparative ranking can only reinforce a short-term investment perspective. It is understandably difficult to maintain a long-term view when, faced with… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Anyone believing the TPP is good for Americans take note: The foreign subsidiaries of U.S.-based corporations could just as easily challenge any… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Turbulence is a condition that we all experience during a flight when the plane is bouncing around by competing air currents. By… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
We are convinced that the intelligent investor can derive satisfactory results from pricing of either type (market timing or fundamental analysis via… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The industrial leader of the 20th century was a system-builder. He was a visionary in terms of what could be built; got… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
The government can always rescue the markets or interfere with contract law whenever it deems convenient with little or no apparent cost.… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
While it is probably a poor idea to own actively managed funds in general, it is truly a terrible idea to own… — William J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
You have to be intellectually honest with yourself and others. In my judgment, all great investors are seekers of truth. — Michael Steinhardt Copy Share Image
Investors tend to discover 'hot' mutual fund managers just after a successful run and just before the inescapable force of mean reversion… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Fund investors are confident that they can easily select superior fund managers. They are wrong. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
If you're a retail investor, you have set aside some of your hard-earned money for investment or to create a nest egg,… — Vito Fossella Copy Share Image
The tax-exempt privilege is a feature always reflected in the market price of [municipal] bonds. The investor pays for it. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As an investor-entrepreneur, I’ve always tried to be contrarian, to go against the crowd, to identify opportunities in places where people are… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Real investors should never feel bearish because the time to buy value is when markets go down! — Irving Kahn Copy Share Image
If you are not willing to own a stock for 10 years, do not even think about owning it for 10 minutes. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Timidity prompted by past failures causes investors to miss the most important bull markets. — Walter Schloss Copy Share Image
An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Commercial banks are very good for certain businesses, like loans and guarding other people's money. They're not great investors or entrepreneurs. — John Gutfreund Copy Share Image
Investors have been too willing to buy stocks with strong reported earnings, even if they do not understand how the earnings are… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
My biggest prediction for the future is that people are going to start looking after individual investors. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor. — Simon Baker Copy Share Image
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