Behaviour Quote by Warren Buffett

The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This…

— George Soros

Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing

— Jessica Livingston

Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency…

— Benjamin Graham

The wild life of today is not ours to do with as we please. The original stock was given to us in trust for…

— Theodore Roosevelt

There's a company behind every stock and a reason companies - and their stocks - perform the way they do.

— Peter Lynch

The companies I have traditionally seen do best over the long term had lead investors for their seed rounds

— Keith Rabois

So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. They are momentum investors purchasing highly illiquid…

— Fred Wilson

The true investor welcomes volatility ... a wildly fluctuating market means that irrationally low prices will periodically be attached to solid businesses.

— Warren Buffett

A lot of share-buying, not bargain-seeking, is designed to prop stock prices up. Thirty to 40 years ago, it was very profitable to look…

— Charlie Munger

Share prices fluctuate more than share values.

— John Templeton

The possibility that stock value in aggregate can become irrationally high is contrary to the hard-form "efficient market" theory that many of you once…

— Charlie Munger

The basic story remains simple and never-ending. Stocks aren't lottery tickets. There's a company attached to every share.

— Peter Lynch