Causes Quote by Benjamin Graham

Confusing speculation with investment is always a mistake.

— Benjamin Graham

I have never invested directly in stocks and shares. That's never been my type of speculation.

— John Virgo

Speculation is an effort, probably unsuccessful, to turn a little money into a lot. Investment is an effort, which should be successful, to prevent…

— Fred Schwed Jr

Regardless of what the future holds, intelligent investment in common stocks offer a solid route for a reasonable return on investment going forward.

— Michael Burry

There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.

— Daniel Kahneman

The true secret of success in the investment and speculative world is not so much which good securities to buy, but rather which investments…

— Morton Shulman

“risks therein must be assumed by someone. * There is intelligent speculation as there is intelligent investing. But there are many ways in which…

— Benjamin Graham

There is very little difference between speculation and investment. The only difference is basically that investments are successful speculations because if you successfully anticipate…

— George Soros

Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the…

— John Maynard Keynes

Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.

— Peter Lynch

I don't think it makes any sense for an individual to invest in common stocks unless they know the company, work at the company,…

— Eli Broad

The traditional thinking has been that the stock market likes certainty.

— Maria Bartiromo