Beat Quote by Ben Stein

Choosing individual stocks without any idea of what you're looking for is like running through a dynamite factory with a burning match. You may…

— Joel Greenblatt

Here is a dirty little secret: Stock-picking is wildly overrated. Sure, it makes for great cocktail party chatter, and what is more fun than…

— Barry Ritholtz

Investors... can't pick stocks that are better than average. Stocks are a good thing to own over time. There's only two things you can…

— Warren Buffett

To value investors the concept of indexing is at best silly and at worst quite hazardous. Warren Buffett has observed that "in any sort…

— Seth Klarman

Picking the right stocks is one of the hardest parts of investing, and every night on Mad Money, I try to take some of…

— Jim Cramer

My method for picking stocks has never changed. When businesses go from crappy to semicrappy, there's money to be made.

— Peter Lynch

There's lots of stocks out there and all you need is a few of 'em. That's been my philosophy.

— Peter Lynch

Stock-picking is like gambling: those who win well, seldom bet, but when they do, they bet heavily.

— Charlie Munger

The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.

— Byron Katie

My experience is that very few people have what it takes to be a successful investor, as I discussed in The Arrogance of Stock…

— Whitney Tilson

Even fans of actively managed funds often concede that most other investors would be better off in index funds. But buoyed by abundant self-confidence,…

— Paul Samuelson

I am a huge, huge, huge fan of index funds. They are the investor’s best friend and Wall Street’s worst nightmare.

— Jonathan Clements