Investing Quotes

My best form of investment is paying my tithe and offering.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Investing in a startup does not make you an entrepreneur any more than buying a grand piano makes you a concert pianist.

You will never be a greater risk-taker in the markets if you approach life with a completely different attitude.

Henrique M. Simões

Knowing the right detail gets you a great return. Ignore them and you just crash & burn.

Love risk when making money. Hate risk when investing money.

If you are playing the rigged game of investing, the house always wins.

Jewish families encourage pursuit of wealth accumulation, high-income careers, and investing.

Then it is your opinion…that a man should never-“-Invest in portable property in a friend?”… “Certainly he should not. Unless he wants to get rid of the friend- and then it becomes a question how much portable property it may be worth to get rid of him.

Charles Dickens

In order to create something new, to invent a new product or idea, you need to anticipate where things are headed. That requires a mixture of certain habits of mind. You need to foster imagination, thoroughly understand the origins of past ideas, learn from others’ mistakes, talk to lots of people about ideas and test your hypotheses against people both alive and dead.

The art of investing is not about figuring out what has already happened. It’s about anticipating the futureand creating the future that others will read about in The Wall Street Journal.

Civil war tends to give a helping hand to the velocity of currency, Ukraine can attest to that. However, it is quite an unpleasant way to find the intrinsic value of worthlessness.

I was convinced that I was totally incompetent in predicting market prices - but that others were generally incompetent also but did not know it, or did not know they were taking massive risks. Most traders were just "picking pennies in front of a steamroller," exposing themselves to the high-impact rare event yet sleeping like babies, unaware of it.

Nassem Nicholas Taleb

I love supporting blue chip companies’ revival. Shows wise when you are on the top and you are still not ignorant & arrogant to realise your weaknesses.

Saving is a great habit but without investing and tracking, it just sleeps

You should RULE your money, Money shouldn't RULE your Life.

There are no good or bad stocks. The company is either good or bad. Stocks are just stocks.

Kenneth L. Fisher

Everyday i meet with clients including widows and divorcees who have the same fears about money and it's my role to empower them, and women in general, to take control of their finances and create a plan.

Smart Risk will shatter the emotional myths to investing and help Canadians see the opportunities in today's volatile market.

The alluring, long-shot chance of a huge gain is the grease that lubricates the machine of innovation.

Money is always eager and ready to work for anyone who is ready to employ it.

Idowu Koyenikan

To discern profits only when it is within the ken of the market herd is not the acme of investing excellence

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

I think the very best attitude for anyone investing in the stock market is to make up his mind to lose money.”— The Duchess Gloriana XII

Leonard Wibberley

My ethical values prevent me from investing in the stock market.

Be selective in your battles...

Brandi L. Bates

Your health is a long-range investment that will pay-off when you need it most.

Make your body your prized possession above all physical things. Spare no expense, re-prioritize and invest in your health.

Understanding the value of a security and whether it's trading above or below that value is the difference between investing and speculating.

Perfection does not mean errorless . Real perfection starts with real intention and ends with delivery, all driven by seeking knowledge, trial & error and investing emotions. Whatever delivered after that is perfect .

Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?

The four most expensive word in the English language are 'This time it's different.

A dream business that doesn't make money is a living nightmare.

You don't need to chase wealth, just become a real entrepreneur and the world is your oyster.

Reliability investing requires finding companies trading below their inherent worth--stocks with strong fundamentals including earnings, dividends, book value, and cash flow selling at bargain prices give their quality.

We can't all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the pie.

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.

Successful companies are built by investing large amount of money and hundreds of litres of sweat.

Successful companies are built by investing lare amount of money and hundreds of litres of sweat.

I don't waste food, water, money, time and talent.

The U.S. stock market was now a class system, rooted in speed, of haves and have-nots. The haves paid for nanoseconds; the have-nots had no idea that nanoseconds had value. The haves enjoyed a perfect view of the market; the have-nots never saw the market at all.

In 2008, when almost every other investor got crushed, and even the Wall Street 'experts' were down by almost half, I was up 17 percent - beating the S&P Average by over 50 percent.Reminiscences of a Stock Market Flea

Be a Flea, not a Bull or a Bear. Don't delay, retire anyway. Trading is NOT a four letter word. Buy carefully, sell aggressively. Don't mark duds while drinking. When your plan fails, change it. Don't be slow, don't be greedy. Don't be obtuse with a machine gun pointed at you. There's still time to build wealth and retire well.The Stock Market Flea: Lessons from the Front

In 2008, when almost every other investor got crushed, and even the Wall Street "experts" were down by almost half, I was up 17 percent - beating the S&P Average by over 50 percent.Reminiscences of a Stock Market Flea

In order to win as a contrarian, you need perfect timing and the perfect size.

Henrique M. Simões

Volatility in the up direction is not a problem-it's only downward volatility that offers discourse.

Life is simple but if you don't put anything into it, you won't get anything out of it.

Auliq-Ice

Entrepreneurship is when an individual retrieves a red hot idea from the creativity furnace without the constraint of the heat of lean resources, and with each persistent blow of the innovation hammer shapes the still malleable idea against the anvil of passion, vision, insight, strategy, and principles to forge a fitting vessel of a creative concern.

Creativity doesn’t come from glancing quickly at your Twitter feed while in line at Starbucks. It comes from deep thought. It comes from voraciously reading books—long books that require focused attention. It comes from meaningful discourse with other intellectually curious people. It comes from listening and asking good questions.

Your assets are your employees. Invest more on those performing well. Let the non performers go.

Every cent you own and every moment you spend is always an investment.

At the end of the day, if you’re wasting your time by not investing in yourself, you’re going to waste away—and that would be the greatest waste of all.

Some people will each start investing more of their salary on ‘their’ house and spending less of it on ‘their’ car or cars only when they start being able to take ‘their’ house to work, funerals, weddings, etc.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If you invest nothing, the reward is worth little.

Richelle E. Goodrich

When you work on something that only has the capacity to make you 5 dollars, it does not matter how much harder you work – the most you will make is 5 dollars.

Idowu Koyenikan