100 Quotes by Naved Abdali about Investing
"Buy the business, not the price."
"Prices are easy to understand, and it is easy to isolate or pick assets based on prices. Understanding the businesses and analyzing the risk is complex."
"Analyzing prices is not wrong. However, picking inflated prices as your only source of information is terrible."
"When you buy a stock, you buy a piece of business, not a quote from a broker. As long as the company is doing good, your investment is safe."
"The most important thing is to invest and buy shares in successful businesses. The second most important thing is to buy right and do not pay excessive amounts."
"If you have some working knowledge of business and accounting and have a lot of patience to ride out market ups and downs, you can be a stock picker. You just need to understand that stocks are proportionate ownership of earning businesses."
"Stocks are not market tickers represented by daily quotes but proportionate ownership of businesses and should be viewed accordingly."
"Humans’ reactions are contaminated with their cognitive biases, greed, fear, and survival instinct. However, capital market success requires precisely the opposite behavior of what your intuition is suggesting."
"All common investments have a great feature; the maximum amount you can lose is your capital."