Ability Quote by Warren Buffett

The value of market esoterica to the consumer of investment advice is a different story. In my opinion, investment success will not be produced…

— Warren Buffett

It is only by understanding the emotion of others that an investor has a chance to produce superior results.

— John Templeton

Successful investors tend to be unemotional, allowing the greed and fear of others to play into their hands. By having confidence in their own…

— Seth Klarman

The ability to change one's mind is probably a key characteristic of the successful investor. Dogmatic and rigid personalities rarely, if ever, succeed in…

— Jack D. Schwager

Good investors have to choose how to allocate their mind share with the precious capital they have.

— Chamath Palihapitiya

Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent.

— Andrew Lo

An intelligent investor gets satisfaction from the thought that his operations are exactly opposite to those of the crowd.

— Benjamin Graham

Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and they should…

— Anonymous

Investors believe in the best possible outcome.

— James Cook

“The size of an investor’s brain is less important than his ability to detach the brain from the emotions.”

— Anonymous

As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting,…

— Barry Ritholtz

The successful investor is usually an individual who is inherently interested in business problems.

— Philip Arthur Fisher