28 February 2016
Quotations for Investment Clubs
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. ~Mark Twain
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Gentlemen prefer bonds. ~Andrew Mellon
Never invest in any idea you can’t illustrate with a crayon. ~Peter Lynch
An investor without investment objectives is like a traveler without a destination. ~Ralph Seger
The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. ~Frank Hubbard
A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way. ~Mark Twain
A steady job and a mutual fund is still the best defense against social security. ~Author Unknown
When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company? ~Rene Rivkin
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. ~J. Paul Getty
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work. ~Robert Orben
We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out. ~Julian Huxley, Essays of a Biologist, 1923
The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters. ~Jean-Paul Kauffmann
I hate weekends because there is no stock market. ~Rene Rivkin
Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for ten years. ~Warren Buffett
The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them. ~Peter Lynch
Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets,
But gold that’s put to use more gold begets.
~William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, 1593
Investors have very short memories. ~Roman Abramovich
If inflation continues to soar, you’re going to have to work like a dog just to live like one. ~George Gobel
The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight. ~Jesse Livermore
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. ~Errol Flynn
If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion. ~George Bernard Shaw
You can never predict when that unknown torpedo will come out of the dark and smash the price of a stock. ~Ralph Seger
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful. ~Warren Buffett
Goodness is the only investment that never fails. ~Henry David Thoreau
People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage. ~Doug Larson
I’m tired of Love: I’m still more tired of Rhyme.
But Money gives me pleasure all the time.
~Hilaire Belloc, "Fatigued," Sonnets and Verse, 1923
In the old days a man who saved money was a miser; nowadays he’s a wonder. ~Author Unknown
A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore. ~Yogi Berra
One way to end up with $1 million is to start with $2 million and use technical analysis. ~Ralph Seger
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin
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
A bank book makes good reading — better than some novels. ~Harry Lauder
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. ~Sigmund Freud
Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy you the kind of misery you prefer. ~Author Unknown
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. ~Woody Allen
Inflation hasn’t ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Wealth — any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband. ~H.L. Mencken
If the nation’s economists were laid end to end, they would point in all directions. ~Arthur H. Motley
By the time I have money to burn, my fire will have burnt out. ~Author Unknown
Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven’t earned one. ~H.W. Lewis, Technological Risk, 1990
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you’re generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make. ~Donald Trump
Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master. ~Alexandre Dumas fils, Camille, 1852
That money talks
I’ll not deny,
I heard it once:
It said, "Goodbye."
~Richard Armour
Money is much more exciting than anything it buys. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966
Invest a few moments in thinking. It will pay good interest. ~Author Unknown
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. ~Mark Twain
Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times. ~John Burroughs
Women prefer men who have something tender about them — especially the legal kind. ~Kay Ingram
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. ~Mark Twain
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Gentlemen prefer bonds. ~Andrew Mellon
Never invest in any idea you can’t illustrate with a crayon. ~Peter Lynch
An investor without investment objectives is like a traveler without a destination. ~Ralph Seger
The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. ~Frank Hubbard
A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way. ~Mark Twain
A steady job and a mutual fund is still the best defense against social security. ~Author Unknown
When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company? ~Rene Rivkin
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. ~J. Paul Getty
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work. ~Robert Orben
We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out. ~Julian Huxley, Essays of a Biologist, 1923
The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters. ~Jean-Paul Kauffmann
I hate weekends because there is no stock market. ~Rene Rivkin
Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for ten years. ~Warren Buffett
The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them. ~Peter Lynch
Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets,
But gold that’s put to use more gold begets.
~William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, 1593
Investors have very short memories. ~Roman Abramovich
If inflation continues to soar, you’re going to have to work like a dog just to live like one. ~George Gobel
The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight. ~Jesse Livermore
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. ~Errol Flynn
If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion. ~George Bernard Shaw
You can never predict when that unknown torpedo will come out of the dark and smash the price of a stock. ~Ralph Seger
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful. ~Warren Buffett
Goodness is the only investment that never fails. ~Henry David Thoreau
People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage. ~Doug Larson
I’m tired of Love: I’m still more tired of Rhyme.
But Money gives me pleasure all the time.
~Hilaire Belloc, "Fatigued," Sonnets and Verse, 1923
In the old days a man who saved money was a miser; nowadays he’s a wonder. ~Author Unknown
A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore. ~Yogi Berra
One way to end up with $1 million is to start with $2 million and use technical analysis. ~Ralph Seger
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin
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
A bank book makes good reading — better than some novels. ~Harry Lauder
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. ~Sigmund Freud
Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy you the kind of misery you prefer. ~Author Unknown
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. ~Woody Allen
Inflation hasn’t ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Wealth — any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband. ~H.L. Mencken
If the nation’s economists were laid end to end, they would point in all directions. ~Arthur H. Motley
By the time I have money to burn, my fire will have burnt out. ~Author Unknown
Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven’t earned one. ~H.W. Lewis, Technological Risk, 1990
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you’re generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make. ~Donald Trump
Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master. ~Alexandre Dumas fils, Camille, 1852
That money talks
I’ll not deny,
I heard it once:
It said, "Goodbye."
~Richard Armour
Money is much more exciting than anything it buys. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966
Invest a few moments in thinking. It will pay good interest. ~Author Unknown
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. ~Mark Twain
Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times. ~John Burroughs
Women prefer men who have something tender about them — especially the legal kind. ~Kay Ingram
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. ~Mark Twain
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