COMPASSION

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live thoughtlessly and begins to devote himself to his life
with reverence in order to give it true value.
— Albert Schweitzer

3/18/2013

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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