Investing Quote by John Del Vecchio

“It’s easy to see why the undervalued stocks were undervalued. Profits fell 30 percent in three years before they were picked. Investors expected those…

— Tobias Carlisle

It's a fact: stock investors sometimes lose money on their way to wealth. Get over it.

— Jane Bryant Quinn

“The best-performing 2,000 stocks—25 percent—accounted for all the gains. The worst performing 6,000—75 percent—collectively had a total return of 0 percent.”

— John Del Vecchio

If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.

— John C. Bogle

If it is hard to imagine that 20% of losses on the stock market, you should never participate

— John C. Bogle

Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets.

— Peter Lynch

The whole secret to winning and losing in the stock market is to lose the least amount possible when you're not right.

— William O'Neil

“In the short run, however, stock returns are very volatile, driven by changes in earnings, interest rates, risk, and uncertainty, as well as psychological…

— Jeremy J. Siegel

“From 1977 to 1987, our average annual return to investors was 46 percent. And even in the middle of the recession, in 1991, we…

— Sam Walton

“The stock market has predicted nine out of the last five recessions.”

— Anonymous

More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing.

— Peter Lynch

I presumably lost $150,000 in the depression of 1937—on my one stock investment—because I did everything Lehman Brothers told me. I said, well, this…

— Studs Terkel