Call Quote by Whitney Tilson

“A successful investor is generally a well-rounded individual who puts a natural curiosity and an intellectual interest to work.”

— Burton G. Malkiel

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

— Benjamin Graham

But successful investors tend to be not too self-destructive. They tend to be patient, they tend not to follow the crowd, and they tend…

— Andrew Tobias

Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should…

— Warren Buffett

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

— Philip Arthur Fisher

We like to be the largest outside investor, and the first outside investor.

— John Simon

The grim irony of investing is that we investors as a group not only don't get what we pay for, we get precisely what…

— John C. Bogle

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

I'm a passive investor. There are people who are very aggressive; they try to buy companies.

— Walter Schloss

The entire pursuit of value investing requires you to see where the crowd is wrong so that you can profit from their misperceptions.

— Guy Spier

Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or otherwise confuse.…

— Oliver E. Williamson

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

— Chamath Palihapitiya