Quotes by Investors

Entrepreneurs in accepting risk achieve security for all. In embracing change they ensure social and economic stability.
George Gilder
Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse their prospects have plummeted as families have broken into dependent fragments.
George Gilder
Everyone has got it in him if he will only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities. There is no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.
Charles Schwab
Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse their prospects have plummeted as families have broken into dependent fragments.
George Gilder
Everyone has got it in him if he will only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities. There is no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.
Charles Schwab
Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.
Charles Schwab
In embracing change entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.
George Gilder
In the history of enterprise most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education - not in the classroom where the old ways are taught but in the factories and labs where new ways are wrought ... nothing has been so rare in recent years as an Ivy League graduate who has made a significant innovation in American enterprise.
George Gilder
The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.
Charles Schwab
In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time -- none, zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads--and at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out.
Charles T. Munger
...not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.
Warren Buffett
Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
Douglas R. Casey
The fall of moral civilization has always been brought about by those who were "just doing their jobs".
Jeremy Grantham
I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
Charles Schwab
The stock market is almost magical because it always leads the economy. It goes down long before the economy drops and then heads higher long before the economy rebounds. It always has.
Kenneth L. Fisher
There are no good or bad stocks. The company is either good or bad. Stocks are just stocks.
Kenneth L. Fisher
The mutual fund industry has been built, in a sense, on witchcraft.
John C. Bogle
I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.
Warren Buffett
If you take one typewriter and build 100, you’ve made horizontal progress. If you have a typewriter and build a word processor, you have made vertical progress.
Peter Thiel
When you know the destination, the path is easy.
Ratmir Timashev
If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.
Henry Kravis
Socialism is an insurance policy bought by all the members of a national economy to shield them from risk. But the result is to shield them from knowledge of the real dangers and opportunities.
George Gilder
Even a small amount of unplanned downtime can effect a company’s profitability and reputation.
Ratmir Timashev
I pride myself in being a technology innovator, so our specialty at Veeam is our laser-focused commitment to R&D, but you cannot build solid solutions without knowing what the goals are for your customers.
Ratmir Timashev
The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.
Esther Dyson
When leaders reframe customers into guests, and results into experiences, profits escalate.
Eric Schiffer
Products produced cheaply create ugly work lives and ugly households and ugly communities. Profits produced quickly cannot purchase patience and care. Patience is beautiful. Restraint and care are beautiful. Peace is beautiful. A small, diversified organic farm is beautiful.
Woody Tasch
Entrepreneurship: you put one dumb foot in front of the other while the world throws bricks at your head.
Peter Thiel
The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say “no” to almost everything.
Warren Buffett
The risk-bearing role of the rich cannot be performed so well by anyone else. The benefits of capitalism still depend on capitalists. The other groups on the pyramid of wealth should occasionally turn from the spectacles of consumption long enough to see the adventure on the frontiers of the economy above them - an adventure not without its note of nobility...
George Gilder
I have already made up my mind, don't confuse me with facts.
Philip A. Fisher
Nutrition matters for everybody, but you can’t major in it at Harvard. Most top scientists go into other fields. Most of the big studies were done 30 or 40 years ago, and most are seriously flawed. The food pyramid that told us to eat low fat and enormous amounts of grains was probably more a product of lobbying by Big Food than real science; its chief impact has been to aggravate our obesity epidemic. There’s plenty more to learn: we know more about the physics of faraway stars than we know about human nutrition. It won’t be easy, but it’s not obviously impossible: exactly the kind of field that could yield secrets.
Peter Thiel
Just as the attempts to preserve the power of knights in armor were doomed to fail in the face of gunpowder weapons, so the modern notions of nationalism and citizenship are doomed to be short-circuited by microtechnology. Indeed, they will eventually become comic in much the way that the sixteenth century. The cherished civic notions of the twentieth century will be comic anachronisms to new generations after the transformation of the year 2000. The Don Quixote of the twenty-first century will not be a knight-errant struggling to revive the glories of feudalism but a bureaucrat in a brown suit, a tax collector yearning for a citizen to audit.
James Dale Davidson
When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
Warren Buffett
Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.
Warren Buffett
Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.
Warren Buffett
The four most expensive word in the English language are 'This time it's different.
John Templeton
Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob.
Jim Rogers
I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.
Warren Buffett
Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
Warren Buffett
We need a moderately-priced stock market… The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But, unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do. For the investor, a too-high purchase price for the stock of an excellent company can undo the effects of a subsequent decade of favorable business developments.
Warren Buffett
...it's a good idea to remember that whenever there is a buy and a seller, somebody is wrong. Make sure it's not you
Kenneth L. Fisher
There is no better teacher than history in determining the future... There are answers worth billions of dollars in 30$ history book.
Charles T. Munger
No company has a culture, every company is a culture
Peter Thiel
Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.
Warren Buffett
You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible. Most startups that fail do it because they fail at one of these. A startup that does all three will probably succeed.' [Paul Graham]
Alexis Ohanian
A bull doesn’t go wrong in predicting an upswing in a falling market. He goes wrong when he predicts a down swing in a rising market.
Vijay Kedia
If you keep trying to hit a four but you keep on getting only one run. Then chances are when you will hit a six you will get caught.
Vijay Kedia
Investing is a business, investment is a project and investor is a promoter.
Vijay Kedia
Rome was not built in a day, but Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed in a day.
Vijay Kedia
Market rewards you as per your perception.
Vijay Kedia
Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press
Warren Buffett
In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.
Warren Buffett
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
Warren Buffett
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.
Warren Buffett
When we think about the future, we hope for a future of progress. That progress can take one of two forms. Horizontal or extensive progress means copying things that work—going from 1 to n. Horizontal progress is easy to imagine because we already know what it looks like. Vertical or intensive progress means doing new things—going from 0 to 1. Vertical progress is harder to imagine because it requires doing something nobody else has ever done. If you take one typewriter and build 100, you have made horizontal progress. If you have a typewriter and build a word processor, you have made vertical progress.
Peter Thiel
A bull market is very much like being in love. You don’t realise its value till it’s gone.
Vijay Kedia
Self-improvement comes mainly from trying to help others.
John Templeton
The pain of problems is a call to find solutions rather than a reason for unhappiness and inaction, so it's silly, pointless, and harmful to be upset at the problems and choices that come at you (though it’s understandable).
Ray Dalio
Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.
Ray Dalio