“Famous Investment Quotes”

To help you through the day…

“The four most expensive words in the English language are, ‘This time it’s different.’” – Sir John Templeton

“We have two classes of forecasters: Those who don’t know and those who don.t know they don’t know..” – John Kenneth Galbraith.

“When somebody buys a stock it’s because they think it’s going to go up and the person who sold it to them thinks it’s going to go down. Somebody’s wrong.” – George Ross

“I hate weekends because there is no stock market.” – Rene Rivkin

“I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.” -Mark Twain

“I remember getting all my friends to buy the candy bars so the company would make more money and the stock would go up.” -David Ryan

“Our favourite holding period is forever.” – Warren Buffett

“Fundamentalists who say they are not going to pay any attention to the charts are like a doctor who says he’s not going to take a patient’s temperature.” – Bruce Kovner

“The stock was around a long time before you bought it. Just because you bought it now doesn’t mean that it suddenly has to go up.” -Keff Yass’s father

“Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please..” – Mark Twain

“We has met the enemy, and it is us.” -Walt Kelly

“The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.” – Mark Twain

“Due to the recent bankruptcy, we’re removing this stock from our buy list.” -Anonymous

“Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.” – Warren Buffett

“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

“There are two kinds of investors, be they large or small: those who don’t know where the market is headed, and those who don’t know that they don’t know. Then again, there is a third type of investor the investment professional, who indeed knows that he or she doesn’t know, but whose livelihood depends upon appearing to know..” – Bernstein, William.

“Risk is good. Not properly managing your risk is a dangerous leap.” -Evel Knievel

“The most predictable thing about the stock market is the number of experts who take credit for predicting it.” -Dave Weinbaum

“You can’t teach them your stomach.” -Marty Schwartz

“You don’t need it. You don’t need any education at all todo it. The smarter you are, the dumber you are. The more you know, the worse it is for you.” -Tom Baldwin

“He could tell the state of your equity by the amount of anxiety he saw in your face.” -Bill Lipschutz on John Guthfreund.

“Anyone with average intelligence can learn to trade. This in not rocket science.” -William Eckhardt

“Frankly, even today, many analysts still don’t know what makes their particular stocks go up and down.” -Stanley Druckenmiller

“God is not a market manipulator.” -Mark Ritchie

“Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.” – Mark Twain

“Investors have very short memories.” -Roman Abramovich

“Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.” – Peter Lynch

“Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.” -Robert Orben

“Money talks but all mine ever says is good-bye.” -Anonymous

“Market Correction-The day after you buy stocks..” -Anonymous

“There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.” -Winston Churchill

“Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting.” -Billy Rose

“The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.” -Jean-Paul Kauffmann

“Money couldn’t buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.” -Spike Milligan

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” -Benjamin Franklin

“The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that’s always been my philosophy.” – Peter Lynch

“Don’t gamble! Take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it..” -Will Rogers

“Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.” -Warren Buffett

“You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don’t understand that’s going to happen, then you’re not ready, you won’t do well in the markets.” – Peter Lynch

“Wall Street is the only place people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from people who take the subway.” – Warren Buffett

“October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February..” – Mark Twain

“It’s not whether you are 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

“The average man doesn’t wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically which particular stock to buy or sell. He wants to get something for nothing. He does not wish to work. He doesn.t even wish to have to think.” – Jesse Livermore