Investing Quotes
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Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks.
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Be sure that debt does not exceed 100% of the equity.
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Having a tax code that rewards companies that are shipping jobs overseas instead of companies that are investing here in the United States, that will not make us more competitive.
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Always consider investing in a grade-A man with a grade-B idea. Never invest in a grade-B man with a grade-A idea.
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When stock prices are rising, it's called ''momentum investing''; when they are falling, it's called ''panic.''
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Good investing is a peculiar balance between the conviction to follow your ideas and the flexibility to recognize when you have made a mistake.
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It is what people actually did in the stock market that counted - not what they said they were going to do.
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Anyone who gives a surgeon six thousand dollars for breast augmentation should give some thought to investing a little more in brain augmentation.
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We like to buy stocks which we feel are undervalued and then we have to have the guts to buy more when they go down.
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I don't think the Federal Reserve has any role in how high rates are right now. I don't understand why everyone is paying attention to this tapering. The Fed is using one kind of bond to buy another kind of bond. What's the big deal, and why is anyone taking the Fed seriously?
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A person with a flexible schedule and average resources will be happier than a rich person who has everything except a flexible schedule. Step one in your search for happiness is to continually work toward having control of your schedule.
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Try to buy assets at a discount than to buy earnings.
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The purpose of investing is not to simply optimise returns and make yourself rich. The purpose is not to die poor.
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One of the first things I tell people is, if you want to learn about investing, you want to open an account and make real investments because that's when it becomes real.
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[What if my advisor talks only about returns, not risk?] ... It's his job to take risk into account by telling you the range of possible outcomes you face. If he won't, go get a new planner, someone who will get real.
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Do you know what investing for the long run but listening to market news everyday is like? It's like a man walking up a big hill with a yo-yo and keeping his eyes fixed on the yo-yo instead of the hill.
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Britain has squandered its windfall of natural resources from North Sea oil and gas. Instead of prudently investing the 'unearned income' from nature, to build a safe, clean and green energy supply for the nation, we face unnecessary shortages. But there is still a chance to put the proceeds from liquidating our fossil fuel assets to better and more appropriate use. Instead of oil companies profiteering from climate change and oil depletion, a windfall tax could establish an Oil Legacy Fund to pay for Britain's urgent transition to a sustainable, decentralised energy system.
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Indexing is a successful approach to investing not because it's simple, but because it has performed so much better than the average active manager (the opposite of indexing), and the simplicity is just an added bonus.
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In most bull markets there comes a time when the public controls fluctuations and the efforts of the largest operators are insufficient to check the rising tide.
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Stop spending your time; start investing your time.
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By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow.
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You want to know a sure way to lose money? Buy what's popular and don't know what you are investing in.
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If the market were way over priced, I wouldn't own any stocks.
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Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.
