43 Of The Very Best Investment Quotes

~Investment Quotes~

1. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest-Benjamin Franklin
2. In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money-Michael Jordan
3. Education is the investment our generation makes in the future-Mitt Romney
4. Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future-Ed Markey
5. Price is what you pay; value is what you get.’ Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down- Warren Buffett
6. I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong…I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes- George Soros
7. Persist – don’t take no for an answer. If you’re happy to sit at your desk and not take any risk, you’ll be sitting at your desk for the next 20 years- David Rubenstein
8. Anyone who is not investing now is missing a tremendous opportunity– Carlos Slim
9. This idea of anticipation is key to investing and to business generally. You can’t wait for an opportunity to become obvious. You have to think, “Here’s what other people and companies have done under certain circumstances. Now, under these new circumstances, how is this management likely to behave?- Eddie Lampert
10. As long as you enjoy investing, you’ll be willing to do the homework and stay in the game. That’s why I try to make the show so entertaining, because if you aren’t interested, you’ll either miss the opportunity to make money in the market or not pay enough attention and end up losing your shirt- Jim Cramer
11. My experience indicates that most people who’ve accumulated a great deal of wealth haven’t had that as their goal at all. Wealth is only a by-product, not the original motivation- Michael Milken
12. The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell- John Templeton
13. Risk is what’s left over when you think you’ve thought of everything-Carl Richards
14. In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable-Robert Arnott
15. If you look carefully, almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook-Bill Bonner
16. No one can foresee the consequences of trivia and accident, and for that reason alone, the future will forever be filled with surprises-Dan Gardner
17. The stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing-John Bogle
18. A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business-Henry Ford
19. Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you’re generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make-Donald Trump
20. Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas-Paul Samuelson
21. If investing is entertaining, if you’re having fun, you’re probably not making any money. Good investing is boring-George Soros
22. Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.-Warren Buffett
23. The four most dangerous words in investing are “This time it’s different-John Templeton
24. Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust-Oliver Wendell Holmes
25. Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons-Woody Allen
26. When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns – in short, being fooled by randomness-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
27. Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. If you are susceptible to selling everything in a panic, you ought to avoid stocks and mutual funds altogether-Peter Lynch
28. Most investors want to do today what they should have done yesterday-Larry Summers
29. Cash is a fact, profit is an opinion-Alfred Rappaport
30. Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells-J. Paul Getty
31. Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone-Sigmund Freud
32. People don’t like the idea of thinking long term. Many are desperately seeking short term answers because they have money problems to be solved today-Robert Kiyosaki
33. Financial peace isn’t the acquisition of stuff. It’s learning to live on less than you make, so you can give money back and have money to invest. You can’t win until you do this-Dave Ramsey
34. It’s nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don’t want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it’s a little like saving sex for your old age-Warren Buffett
35. Speculation is an effort, probably unsuccessful, to turn a little money into a lot. Investment is an effort, which should be successful, to prevent a lot of money from becoming a little-Fred Schwed Jr
36. You can get in way more trouble with a good idea than a bad idea, because you forget that the good idea has limits-Ben Graham
37. A dream business that doesn’t make money is a living nightmare-Habeeb Akande
38. It is better to hang out with people better than you … you’ll drift in that direction-Warren Buffett
39. Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago-Warren Buffett
40. Price is what you pay. Value is what you get-Warren Buffett
41. We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful-Warren Buffett
42. Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down-Warren Buffett
43. If a business does well, the stock eventually follows-Warren Buffett

~Investment Quotes~