Investing Quotes

Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

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.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.

Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

The only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.