Quotes on Investing

You can find good reasons to scuttle your equities in every morning paper and on every broadcast of the nightly news.

Just because you buy a stock and it goes up does not mean you are right. Just because you buy a stock and it goes down does not mean you are wrong.

It's one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment.

When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.

Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.

The average man doesn't wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically which particular stock to buy or sell. He wants to get something for nothing. He does not wish to work. He doesn't even wish to have to think.

Look for companies with high profit margins.

Investing in girls' education is the very best thing we can do, not just for our daughters and granddaughters, but for their families, their communities, and their countries.

Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them.

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

Investing a lot of time and money in external beauty and caring little about internal beauty.

When you start to confuse Freddie Mac, Sallie Mae and Fannie Mae with members of your family, and you remember 2,000 stock symbols but forget the children's birthdays, there's a good chance you've become too wrapped up in your work.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.

If you hope to have more money tomorrow than you have today, you've got to put a chunk of your assets into stocks. Sooner or later, a portfolio of stocks or stock mutual funds will turn out to be a lot more valuable than a portfolio of bonds or CDs or money-market funds.

Don't worry about looking good - worry about achieving your goals.

The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage.

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

Generally speaking, investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. Anything that improves your own talents; nobody can tax it or take it away from you. They can run up huge deficits and the dollar can become worth far less. You can have all kinds of things happen. But if you’ve got talent yourself, and you’ve maximized your talent, you’ve got a tremendous asset that can return ten-fold.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

Probability is the very guide of life.