Ability Quote by Jim Cramer

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

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

— Peter Lynch

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

“There have been many times when I, like many other speculators, have not had the patience to await the sure thing. I wanted to…

— Gil Morales

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

— Charlie Munger

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

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

— Jack D. Schwager

Not being dogmatic has helped me become a better stock-picker.

— Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks just as…

— Peter Lynch

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

Whenever you have the kind of market that is taking shape now - a wildly volatile one with big pricing discrepancies - it plays…

— James Russell Lowell

The most important ingredient for success in the stock market is a sharp sense of timing.

— Venita VanCaspel