Balance Quote by Michael Steinhardt

Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences…

— Benjamin Graham

Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.

— Bill Ackman

If you are not making any mistakes, you are being excessively risk-averse. Investing involves risk, and that means you will occasionally be wrong. And…

— Barry Ritholtz

Successful investing is about having people agree with you ... later.

— James Grant

To be a good investor, you have to think differently from others.

— Kirsten Green

Investing is about intellectual honesty. You want to know what you know. You want to know, mostly, what you don't know.

— Li Lu

Investors should invest on what they know. The biggest mistake is to invest on what they don't know.

— Mohamed El-Erian

Investing is a probabilistic business. Every once in a while, it's sort of like you're throwing six-sided dice, and anything except a one or…

— Whitney Tilson

Investing is where you find a few great companies and then sit on your ass.

— Charlie Munger

Any mistakes that I make is an investment in my future.

— Rose Namajunas

Confusing speculation with investment is always a mistake.

— Benjamin Graham

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