Stock Market Quotes
Investing is by no means a simple process; there are countless considerations that must be paid, and infinite risks along the way. But sometimes the best advice is extremely simple to digest. A few choice words can summarize winning strategies and rules of thumb quite nicely. Below are 41 of the most insightful and useful concise quotes about investing.
1. “Games are won by players who focus on the playing field – not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.”Warren Buffett
2. “October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.”Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson
3. “The trick is not to learn to trust your gut feelings, but rather to discipline yourself to ignore them. Stand by your stocks as long as the fundamental story of the company hasn’t changed.”Peter Lynch, One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In
4. “If you aren’t thinking about owning a stock for ten years, don’t even think about owning it for ten minutes.”Warren Buffett
5. “The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.”Phillip Fisher
6. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”Benjamin Franklin
7. “If investing is entertaining, if you’re having fun, you’re probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.”George Soros
8. “Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.”Warren Buffett
“There’s a virtuous cycle when people have to defend challenges to their ideas. Any gaps in thinking or analysis become clear pretty quickly when smart people ask good, logical questions. You can’t be a good value investor without being an independent thinker – you’re seeing valuations that the market is not appreciating. But it’s critical that you understand why the market isn’t seeing the value you do. The back and forth that goes on in the investment process helps you get at that.”
The Bottom Line
Even though the quotes above come from some of the most intelligent people on Wall Street, the ideas behind them are both quite simple and insightful.
