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A Collection of Famous Quotes About Investing

Posted by Preet on Oct 26, 2008 | 2 comments

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Thanks to everyone who voted and/or left a comment on my Womens Network auditiontape. The Top 20 will be selected by Monday, November 3rd and Ill be sure to letyou know if I made the first cut! In the meantime, Ive rounded up some great quotes from some investing giants for your enjoyment so enjoy! (NOTE: Some were picked because I found them insightful, while other were included because I found them humorous)Peter Lynch

Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections or trying to

anticipate corrections than has been lost in corrections themselves.

Nobody can predict interest rates, the future direction of the economy or the stock market. Dismiss all such forecasts and concentrate on what is actually happening to the companies in which youve invested.

The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.

You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you dont understand thats going to happen, then youre not ready, you wont do well in the markets.

When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. Ive bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just dont know wh

en you can find the bottom.

Ive found that when the markets going down and you buy funds wisely, at some pointin the future you will be happy. You wont get there by reading Now is the time tobuy.

Go for a business that any idiot can run because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

Although its easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket its part-ownrship of a business.Warren Buffett

If you expect to continue to purchase stocks throughout your life, you should welcome price declines as a way to add stocks more cheaply to your portfolio.

Calling someone who trades actively in the market an investor is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a romantic

If you are not willing to own a stock for 10 years, do not even think about owning it for 10 minutes

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice

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from those who take the subway.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Our favourite holding period is forever.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior,but simple behavior is more effective.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only whenothers are fearful. George Soros

Stock market bubbles dont grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.

Shelby Davis

You make most of your money in a bear market, you just dont realize it at the time

The hangover is the worst where the party was the wildest.John Bogle

Your success in investing will depend in part on your character and guts, and inpart on your ability to realize at the height of the ebullience and the depth ofdespair alike that this too shall pass.

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2 Comments

1.Big Cajun Man - October 27, 2008

Wayne Gretzky:

I go where the puck is going to go, not where it is

Yogi Berra

Hit em where they aint

Most Financial Planners

Buy low, sell high, its simple!Reply

2.Kevin M. - November 17, 2009

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The best financial advisors do not have to work as a financial advisor.Reply

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