28 February 2016
Famous Investing Trading Quotes
Buy on fear, sell on greed.
Buy on the rumor, sell on the news.
The trend is your friend.
Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making. Alan Greenspan
Sir John Templeton Quotes
Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria. The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy, and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell.
If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.
The four most dangerous words in investing are 'This time it's different'.
Warren Buffett Quotes
If you expect to continue to purchase stocks throughout your life, you should welcome price declines as a way to add stocks more cheaply to your portfolio.
Calling someone who trades actively in the market an investor is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a romantic
If you are not willing to own a stock for 10 years, do not even think about owning it for 10 minutes.
Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
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.
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
Our favourite holding period is forever.
The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
George Soros Quotes
Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.
Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios. The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.
It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong.
Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't under-estimate the value of that, but they're not designed to take care of social needs.
Peter Lynch Quotes
You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.
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.
I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'
Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
Benjamin Graham Quotes
Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.
Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.
The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. This means.. that he should be able to justify every purchase he makes and each price he pays by impersonal, objective reasoning that satisfies him that he is getting more than his money's worth for his purchase.
I am no longer an advocate of elaborate techniques of security analysis in order to find superior value opportunities.
Jack Bogle Quotes
Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.
If you have trouble imaging a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.
William O'Neil Quotes
What seems too high and risky to the majority generally goes higher and what seems low and cheap generally goes lower.
Jim Cramer Quotes
As long as you enjoy investing, you'll be willing to do the homework and stay in the game. That's why I try to make the show so entertaining, because if you aren't interested, you'll either miss the opportunity to make money in the market or not pay enough attention and end up losing your shirt.
Picking the right stocks is one of the hardest parts of investing, and every night on Mad Money, I try to take some of that burden off your shoulders.
Robert Kiyosaki Quotes
I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.
We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.
Jesse Livermore Quotes
When I'm bearish and I sell a stock, each sale must be at a lower level than the previous sale. When I am buying, the reverse is true. I must buy on a rising scale. I don't buy long stocks on a scale down, I buy on a scale up.
The price pattern reminds you that every movement of importance is but a repetition of similar price movements, that just as soon as you can familiarize yourself with the actions of the past, you will be able to anticipate and act correctly and profitably upon forthcoming movements.
I never hesitate to tell a man that I am bullish or bearish. But I do not tell people to buy or sell any particular stock. In a bear market all stocks go down and in a bull market they go up.
Buy on the rumor, sell on the news.
The trend is your friend.
Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making. Alan Greenspan
Sir John Templeton Quotes
Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria. The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy, and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell.
If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.
The four most dangerous words in investing are 'This time it's different'.
Warren Buffett Quotes
If you expect to continue to purchase stocks throughout your life, you should welcome price declines as a way to add stocks more cheaply to your portfolio.
Calling someone who trades actively in the market an investor is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a romantic
If you are not willing to own a stock for 10 years, do not even think about owning it for 10 minutes.
Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
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.
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
Our favourite holding period is forever.
The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
George Soros Quotes
Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.
Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.
The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios. The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.
It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong.
Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't under-estimate the value of that, but they're not designed to take care of social needs.
Peter Lynch Quotes
You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.
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.
I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'
Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
Benjamin Graham Quotes
Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.
Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.
The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. This means.. that he should be able to justify every purchase he makes and each price he pays by impersonal, objective reasoning that satisfies him that he is getting more than his money's worth for his purchase.
I am no longer an advocate of elaborate techniques of security analysis in order to find superior value opportunities.
Jack Bogle Quotes
Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.
If you have trouble imaging a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.
William O'Neil Quotes
What seems too high and risky to the majority generally goes higher and what seems low and cheap generally goes lower.
Jim Cramer Quotes
As long as you enjoy investing, you'll be willing to do the homework and stay in the game. That's why I try to make the show so entertaining, because if you aren't interested, you'll either miss the opportunity to make money in the market or not pay enough attention and end up losing your shirt.
Picking the right stocks is one of the hardest parts of investing, and every night on Mad Money, I try to take some of that burden off your shoulders.
Robert Kiyosaki Quotes
I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.
We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.
Jesse Livermore Quotes
When I'm bearish and I sell a stock, each sale must be at a lower level than the previous sale. When I am buying, the reverse is true. I must buy on a rising scale. I don't buy long stocks on a scale down, I buy on a scale up.
The price pattern reminds you that every movement of importance is but a repetition of similar price movements, that just as soon as you can familiarize yourself with the actions of the past, you will be able to anticipate and act correctly and profitably upon forthcoming movements.
I never hesitate to tell a man that I am bullish or bearish. But I do not tell people to buy or sell any particular stock. In a bear market all stocks go down and in a bull market they go up.
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