Over the years legendary investors like Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, Peter Lynch and others have delivered us timeless investment quotes. The best investing advice should be easy to understand and stand the tests of time. Even though these financial quotes are from some of the most intelligent people on Wall Street, the concepts are quite simple. Here are 30 timeless investing quotes for success.
5. Spend each day trying to
be a little wiser than you
were when you woke up.
CHARLIE MUNGER
6. The desire to perform all the time is
usually a barrier to performing over
time.
ROBERT OLSTEIN
7. Risk comes from not
knowing what you’re
doing.
WARREN BUFFETT
8. If we buy the business as a business and not
as a stock speculation, then it becomes
personal. I want it to be personal.
PHIL TOWN
9. We don’t have an
analytical advantage,
we just look in the
right place.
SETH KLARMAN
10. I love quotes…but in the end,
knowledge has to be converted to
action or it’s worthless.
TONY ROBBINS
11. No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent
and experience, fails to use his checklist.
CHARLIE MUNGER
12. The secret to investing is to figure out the
value of something - and then pay a lot less.
JOEL GREENBLATT
13. It is impossible to produce
superior performance
unless you do something
different from the majority.
JOHN TEMPLETON
14. It is remarkable how much long term
advantage people like us have gotten by
trying to be consistently not stupid,
instead of trying to be very intelligent.
CHARLIE MUNGER
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17. Based on my own personal
experience - rarely do more than
three or four variables really count.
Everything else is noise.
MARTIN WHITMAN
18. Wide diversification is only
required when investors do not
understand what they are doing.
WARREN BUFFETT
19. I will tell you how to become rich. Close
the doors, be fearful when others are
greedy. Be greedy when others are
fearful.
WARREN BUFFETT
20. Compound interest is the eighth
wonder of the world. He who
understands it, earns it. He who
doesn’t, pays it.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
21. The individual should act
consistently as an investor and not
as a speculator.
BENJAMIN GRAHAM
22. The entrance strategy is actually more
important than the exit strategy.
EDWARD LAMPERT
23. In many ways, the stock market is
like the weather in that if you
don’t like the current conditions
all you have to do is wait a while.
LOW SIMPSON
24. The ability to focus attention on
important things is a defining
characteristic of intelligence.
ROBERT J. SHILLER
28. All intelligent investing is value investing.
Acquiring more than you are paying for.
You must value the business in order to
value the stock.
CHARLIE MUNGER
29. The stock market is filled with
individuals who know the price of
everything, but the value of nothing.
PHILLIP FISHER
30. Although it’s easy to forget sometimes, a
share is not a lottery ticket...it’s part
ownership of a business.
PETER LYNCH
31. WARREN BUFFETT
The stock market is a
device for transferring
money from the
impatient to the patient.
32. PHIL TOWN
When it comes to investing, we want our money to
grow with the highest rates of return, and the lowest
risk possible. While there are no shortcuts to getting
rich, there are smart ways to go about it.
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