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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Quotes: Money and Markets



"Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1. " - Warren Buffett


 "Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing." – Warren Buffett

 
"In the business world, the rear-view mirror is always clearer than the windshield." - Warren Buffett

 
"Most investors want to do today what they should have done yesterday." -Larry Summers


 "Bottoms in the investment world don’t end with four-year lows, they end with 10 or 15-year lows." – Jim Rogers

 
"Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive." -Milton Friedman

 
"Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman." - G Soros
 

"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." -John Maynard Keynes

 
"The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing." - Phillip Fisher

 
"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." – Henry Ford


"The four most dangerous words in investing are: 'this time it's different.'" - Sir John Templeton


 "Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game" - Donald Trump

 
"Diversification is a hedge for ignorance" - William O’Neil.

 
"Cash is a fact, profit is an opinion." -Alfred Rappaport

 
"I would not pre-pay. I would invest instead and let the investments cover it." - Dave Ramsey

 
"So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?" -Ayn Rand

 
"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is." -Oscar Wilde


 "I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves." -Joe Louis


 
"When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?" - Rene Rivkin (Net Worth $346 Million)

 
"Budget: a mathematical confirmation of your suspicions." -A.A. Latimer

 
"Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times." - John Burroughs

 
"Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse." - Alan Greenspan

 
"How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case." - Robert G. Allen


 "Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but realty as distorted by a misconception" - George Soros

 
"You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress." – J. Paul Getty


 
"My basic advise is don’t lose money" - Jim Rogers


 
"The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it." – Andrew Carnegie


 
"Go to the mouse you foolish investor and learn. A mouse never entrusts its life to only one hole." – Ajaero Tony Martins


 
"Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows." - Horore de Balzac


 "A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business." -Henry Ford
  

"If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd. " - J. Templeton

 
"Historically, there has been a bull market in the commodities every 20 or 30 years." – Jim Rogers


 "Don’t try to buy at the bottom or sell at the top" – Bernard Baruch

 
"Men of means look at making money as a game which they love to play." 
– J. Paul Getty


 "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin


 “The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell.” - John Templeton


 "I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful." -Warren Buffett

 
"We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful." -Warren Buffett

 
"The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them." - Peter Lynch


"Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy. " Jack Bogie

 
"Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for ten years." - Warren Buffett

 
"Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they are cheap." -Benjamin Graham

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

 
"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield." - Warren Buffett


 "Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

 
"Maybe the trend is your friend for a few minutes in Chicago, but for the most part it is rarely a way to get rich" - Jim Rogers.

 
"Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in." – John D. Rockefeller


 "Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting." - Billy Rose

 
"At a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts." – Aristotle Onassis

 
"Go for a business any idiot can run because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it." – Peter Lynch

 
"Although it’s easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket. It’s part ownership of a business." – Peter Lynch

 
"Know what you own, and know why you own it." - Peter Lynch


 "Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.” – Henry Ford


"Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth." - Paul Clitheroe


 
"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." – Henry Ford

 
"Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing." - Warren Buffett

 
"In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten." - Peter Lynch


 "The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective." - Warren Buffett


 "Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they are cheap." -Benjamin Graham


"It’s never too late to learn." – Malcolm Forbes

 
”I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong…I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.” - George Soros


 
"Financial leverage is the advantage the rich have over the poor and middle class." – Rich Dad


 "Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons." - Woody Allen


 "A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim." - Kenneth Chang

 
"Index investing outperforms active management year after year." – Jim Rogers


 "Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything." - Ben  Graham


 
"Seek advice on risk from the wealthy who still take risks, not friends who dare nothing more than a football bet." – J. Paul Getty

 
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin

 
"Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy. Profit from folly rather than participate in it." – Warren Buffett

 
"Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery." - Spike Milligan

 
 
"Diversify your investments." - John Templeton


 "The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell." - John Templeton


 "Only those who are asleep make no mistakes." – Ingvar Kamprad

 
"The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters." - Jean-Paul Kauffmann

 
"Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and Money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected. " - Soros
 

 "I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said." -Alan Greenspan


 "Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy." - Spike Milligan


 
"The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets." - John D. Rockefeller


 
"When a long-term trend loses it's momentum, short-term volatility tends to rise." - George Soros

 "If I’d only followed CNBC’s advice, I’d have a million dollars today. Provided I’d started with a hundred million dollars." -Jon Stewart

 
"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." -John Maynard Keynes


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

 















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