Average Quote by Warren Buffett

My philosophy is that all stocks are bad. There are no good stocks unless they go up in price. If they go down instead,…

— William O'Neil

Here is a dirty little secret: Stock-picking is wildly overrated. Sure, it makes for great cocktail party chatter, and what is more fun than…

— Barry Ritholtz

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

My experience is that very few people have what it takes to be a successful investor, as I discussed in The Arrogance of Stock…

— Whitney Tilson

Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can't do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over…

— Ben Stein

All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good companies.

— Warren Buffett

Stock-picking is like gambling: those who win well, seldom bet, but when they do, they bet heavily.

— Charlie Munger

The stock market really isn't a gamble, as long as you pick good companies that you think will do well, and not just because…

— Peter Lynch

As a professional, you can afford to pick some stocks and be wrong about a few of them. To keep your job, you cannot…

— Jeremy Grantham

The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm; the best shares are plow shares; and the best banks…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Although there are good and bad companies, there is no such thing as a good stock; there are only good stock prices, which come…

— Benjamin Graham

The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.

— Barry Ritholtz