Ability Quote by Jack D. Schwager

Successful investors tend to be unemotional, allowing the greed and fear of others to play into their hands. By having confidence in their own…

— Seth Klarman

The markets represent the aggregate interaction of many investors. Their attitudes, philosophies, and behavioral patterns on many levels are predictable... and repetitive.

— Rick Santelli

To be a good investor, you have to think differently from others.

— Kirsten Green

But successful investors tend to be not too self-destructive. They tend to be patient, they tend not to follow the crowd, and they tend…

— Andrew Tobias

An investor will succeed by coupling good business judgment with an ability to insulate his thoughts and behavior from the super-contagious emotions that swirl…

— Warren Buffett

“A successful investor is generally a well-rounded individual who puts a natural curiosity and an intellectual interest to work.”

— Burton G. Malkiel

The successful investor is usually an individual who is inherently interested in business problems.

— Philip Arthur Fisher

As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting,…

— Barry Ritholtz

The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time to have a view…

— Michael Steinhardt

The list of qualities (an investor should have) include patience, self-reliance, common sense, a tolerance for pain, open-mindedness, detachment, persistence, humility, flexibility, a willingness…

— Peter Lynch

Successful investment may become substantially a matter of techniques and criteria that are learnable, rather than the product of unique and incommunicable mental powers.

— Benjamin Graham

Being a successful investor & winning in the stock market is a matter of skill & discipline and not luck alone

— Jack D. Schwager