Agree Quote by James Grant Download Open image “Successful investing is about having people agree with you ... later.” — James Grant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Agree Investing People Success Successful Successful investing
Your success in investing will depend in part on your character and guts, and in part on your ability to realize at the height… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Successful investing is about owning businesses and reaping the huge rewards provided by the dividends and earnings growth of our nation's - and, for… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Investing is about intellectual honesty. You want to know what you know. You want to know, mostly, what you don't know. — Li Lu Copy Share Image
Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right. — Bill Ackman Copy Share Image
Good investing is a peculiar balance between the conviction to follow your ideas and the flexibility to recognize when you have made a mistake. — Michael Steinhardt Copy Share Image
Successful investing professionals are disciplined and consistent and they think a great deal about what they do and how they do it. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The key to investment success is emotional discipline. Making money has nothing to do with intelligence. To be a successful investor, you have to… — Victor Sperandeo Copy Share Image
Investing is where you find a few great companies and then sit on your ass. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“Though the continued march of intellect and education have nearly obliterated from the mind of the Scots a belief in the marvelous, still a love of the supernatural lingers among the more mountainous districts of the northern kingdom; for 'the Schoolmaster' finds it no easy task, even when aided by all the light of science, to uproot the prejudices of… — James Grant Copy Share
It is an axiom nowadays that no bank fails for lack of capital; unprofitable lending is always the underlying cause. — James Grant Copy Share Image
The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s. — James Grant Copy Share Image
Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance. — James Grant Copy Share Image
It's about bums on seats. If nobody wants to listen to what you are doing, it kind of defeats the purpose really, doesn't it? — James Grant Copy Share Image
The art of banking is always to balance the risk of a run with the reward of a profit. The tantalizing factor in the equation is that riskier borrowers pay higher interest rates. Ultimate safety - a strongbox full of currency - would avail the banker nothing. Maximum risk - a portfolio of loans to prospective bankrupts at usurious interest… — James Grant Copy Share
In almost every walk of life, people buy more at lower prices; in the stock market they seem to buy more at higher prices. — James Grant Copy Share Image
To suppose that the value of a common stock is determined purely by a corporation's earnings discounted by the relevant interest rates and adjusted… — James Grant Copy Share Image
Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this should also present what they believe are public reasons for their argument. So their opinion is no longer just that of one particular party, but an opinion that all members of a society might reasonably agree… — John Rawls Copy Share
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with you completely… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you disagree with.… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
I will not agree to have this bill [to repeal DADT ] go forward, because our economy is in the tank. — John McCain Copy Share Image
People might not agree with me, but I think a woman should have a feminine shape, something you can get your hands on. You,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
On 9-11, we discovered that we cannot escape from the world. To me personally, this was a life-changing experience, and I realized, as did all Americans, in a way that is impossible to describe, that we were not protected by the two oceans. It was necessary to eliminate threats before they showed up on our doorstep. I agree that we… — George W. Bush Copy Share
But I would say if the Security Council is only relevant if it agrees with the United States, then we have come a long… — Hans Blix Copy Share Image
We're never all going to agree with each other. We have to learn to value the diversity. It's one of the presumable principles of… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image