A way to increase your wealth and financial well-being is by investing.
Investing can seem daunting but insights from past and present financial experts offer valuable guidance.
From Benjamin Franklin to Warren Buffett, these quotes provide timeless advice on markets and investing strategies.
Key themes include patience, discipline, risk management and the simplicity of sound investment principles.
Whether you’re new to investing or seasoned, these nuggets of wisdom, totaling 50 quotes, encapsulate strategies and philosophies crucial for navigating the often turbulent financial landscapes.
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Best Investing Quotes of All Time
“Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.” ~ Benjamin Graham.
“We don’t have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.” ~ Warren Buffett.
“Investing is simple, but not easy.” ~ Warren Buffett.
“The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.” ~ Warren Buffett.
“The greatest Enemies of the Equity investor are Expenses and Emotions.” ~ Warren Buffett.
“Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you’ve got talents, no one can take them from you.” ~ Warren Buffett.
“The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting.” ~ Charlie Munger.
“Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless.” ~ Warren Buffett.
Famous Investing Quotes
Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing. ~ Warren Buffett.
Ultimately, nothing should be more important to investors than the ability to sleep soundly at night. ~ Seth Klarman.
You never really know a stock until you own it. ~ Walter J. Schloss.
“Investing is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.” ~ Benjamin Graham.
“Investing requires qualities of temperament way more than it requires qualities of intellect.” ~ Warren Buffett.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. ~ Benjamin Franklin
With a good perspective on history, we can have a better understanding of the past and present, and thus a clear vision of the future. ~ Carlos Slim Helu
Time in the market beats timing the market. ~ Ken Fisher
The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient. ~ Warren Buffett.
Don’t look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack! ~ John Bogle
Our favorite holding period is forever. ~ Warren Buffett
It’s not whether you’re right or wrong that’s important, but how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong. ~ George Soros.
“Building your own business is the best way to become rich. Then you can begin investing in other assets.” ~ Robert T. Kiyosaki.
“The intelligent investor should recognize that market panics can create great prices for good companies and good prices for great companies.” ~ Benjamin Graham.
“I’m not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making – just the facts.” ~ Bill Ackman.
“Investing isn’t about beating others at their game. It’s about controlling yourself at your own game.” ~ Benjamin Graham.
Inspiring Investing Quotes
“It is more important to say “no” to an opportunity, than to say “yes”.” ~ Warren Buffett.
“It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.” ~ John Maynard Keynes.
“People calculate too much and think too little.” ~ Charlie Munger.
“People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers.” ~ Benjamin Graham.
“Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual’s cash flow and wealth.” ~ Robert T. Kiyosaki.
“The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.” ~ Benjamin Graham.
“Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.” ~ John Templeton.
“Take a simple idea and take it seriously.” ~ Charlie Munger.
“Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.” ~ Warren Buffett.
“You don’t have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long time.” ~ Charlie Munger.
“Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” ~ John Maynard Keynes.
Top Investing Quotes
“The best way to measure your investing success is not by whether you’re beating the market but by whether you’ve put in place a financial plan and a behavioral discipline that are likely to get you where you want to go.” ~ Benjamin Graham.
“If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing.” ~ Warren Buffett.
“Experience teaches that the time to buy stocks is when their price is unduly depressed by temporary adversity. In other words, they should be bought on a bargain basis or not at all.” ~ Benjamin Graham.
“Investing in tomorrow’s technology today is more critical than ever…” ~ Bill Gates.
“Losing some money is an inevitable part of investing, and there’s nothing you can do to prevent it. But to be an intelligent investor, you must take responsibility for ensuring that you never lose most or all of your money.” ~ Benjamin Graham.
“In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.” ~ Benjamin Graham.
“Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.” ~ John D. Rockefeller.
“I’ve not found ! one single mutual fund, one single real estate investment, any gold, silver or anything else that has given me higher returns than: me investing in myself.” ~ Patrick Bet-David.
Popular Investing Quotes
“High valuations entail high risks.” ~ Benjamin Graham.
“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.
“The stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing.” ~ John C. Bogle.
“I’m investing in myself, I’m investing in others and I’m investing in my cause. I know if I persist it will pay back in dividends and it always does.” ~ Simon Sinek.
“Many stock options in the corporate world have worked in exactly that fashion: they have gained in value simply because management retained earnings, not because it did well with the capital in its hands.” ~ Warren Buffett.
“We do not view the company itself as the ultimate owner of our business assets but instead view the company as a conduit through which our shareholders own assets.” ~ Warren Buffett.
“I take the market-efficiency hypothesis to be the simple statement that security prices fully reflect all available information.” ~ Eugene Fama.
