Anvils Quote by Joel Greenblatt Download Open image “I wait until an investment idea is so good, it hits me over the head like an anvil.” — Joel Greenblatt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anvils Ideas Investing Investment Waiting
Buy into good, well-researched companies and then wait. Let's call it a sit-on-your-hands investment strategy. — Kenneth Fisher Copy Share Image
Before you invest in anything else, exhaust the possibilities of investing in your own business first. — Paul Zane Pilzer Copy Share Image
Before you invest all of your time into someone make sure they're worth investing in. — SONYA PARKER Copy Share Image
I love the thought of not knowing how things will turn out but the willingness to invest anyway. — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
If I feel like something's gonna be right, I invest in it, whatever it is. — Bernie Ecclestone Copy Share Image
I don't invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
One of the rules I've learned is that struggling to try and think your way into making an investment is usually the best way… — Stephen A. Schwarzman Copy Share Image
We are busy surviving, herding, fixating on what just happened, and being overconfident! — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share Image
There's a clarity that comes with great ideas: You can [easily and simply] explain why something's a great business, how and why it's cheap,… — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share Image
The secret to investing is to figure out the value of something - and then pay a lot less. — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Remember, it’s the quality of your ideas not the quantity that will result in the big money. — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, since the measurement of potential gain and loss from a particular stock is so subjective, it is easier, if you are a professional… — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Here is part of the tradeoff with diversification. You must be diversified enough to survive bad times or bad luck so that skill and… — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share Image
It just seems logical that sticking to investing in only a small number of companies that you understand well, rather than moving down the… — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share Image
“When thinking about risk, rather than making things unnecessarily complicated, there are really two main things you should want to know about an investment… — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share Image
“Graham figured that always using the margin of safety principle when deciding whether to purchase shares of a business from a crazy partner like… — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share Image
I think the exercise of trying to figure out how to simplify concepts has been incredibly helpful to me over the last 13 years… — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smitting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving horses, sweeping,… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver. — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Many authors write like amateur blacksmiths making their first horseshoe; the clank of the anvil, the stench of the scorched leather apron, the sparks… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters:… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human encounter felt… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
Those who will find here a hold for their souls, an anvil for their hands, and vitality for their hearts, will build both their… — Berl Katznelson Copy Share Image
Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has fled his… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image