Investing Quote by John Maynard Keynes

Speculators often prosper through ignorance; it is a cliché that in a roaring bull market knowledge is superfluous and experience is a handicap. But…

— Benjamin Graham

Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In reality, they…

— James Surowiecki

Just remember, without discipline, a clear strategy, and a concise plan, the speculator will fall into all the emotional pitfalls of the market -…

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

Speculator: One who bought stocks that went down.

— Malcolm Forbes

The speculator is not an investor.

— Edwin Lefevre

The most realistic distinction between the investor and the speculator is found in their attitude toward stock-market movements. The speculator's primary interest lies in…

— Benjamin Graham

You have a class of investors and you have a class of speculators. The speculators historically haven't been big enough to cause the investors…

— Jim Cramer

A speculator gambles that a stock will go up in price because somebody else will pay even more for it.

— Benjamin Graham

The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. This means ... that he should be able to justify…

— Benjamin Graham

If you're an investor, you're looking on what the asset is going to do, if you're a speculator, you're commonly focusing on what the…

— Warren Buffett

Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the position is serious when enterprise becomes a bubble on…

— John Maynard Keynes

In contrast to the speculators preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss.

— Seth Klarman