Investing Quotes

The greater the potential for reward in the value portfolio, the less risk there is.

You can be sure that over the next 10 years, you'll see something that you did not think was possible.

Sound investing can make you very wealthy if you're not in too big a hurry.

Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you've got talents, no one can take them from you.

A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.

Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future.

It is more important to say "no" to an opportunity, than to say "yes".

All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good companies.

The gross profits in many workouts appear quite small. It's a little like looking for parking meters with some time left on them. However, the predictability coupled with a short holding period produces quite decent average annual rates of return after allowance for the occasional substantial loss.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

The best education you can get is investing in yourself, and that doesn't mean college or university.

It's not that I want money. It's the fun of making money and watching it grow.

We're perfectly willing to trade away a big payoff for a certain payoff.

The smartest side to take in a bidding war is the losing side.

Gold has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative.

Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand.

Always invest for the long term.

When investing, pessimism is your friend, euphoria the enemy.

I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice. You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense.

Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.