621 Quotes About Investing

Investing in digital marketing is cheaper than doing nothing at all.

It's nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don't want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it's a little like saving sex for your old age.

Games are won by players who focus on the playing field –- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.

Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble

Investors should be skeptical of history-based models. Constructed by a nerdy-sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the like, these models tend to look impressive. Too often, though, investors forget to examine the assumptions behind the models. Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

If you aren't thinking about owning a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes.

It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble.

Acknowledge the complexity of the world and resist the impression that you easily understand it. People are too quick to accept conventional wisdom, because it sounds basically true and it tends to be reinforced by both their peers and opinion leaders, many of whome have never looked at whether the facts support the received wisdom. It's a basic fact of life that many things "everybody knows" turn out to be wrong.

You can get in way more trouble with a good idea than a bad idea, because you forget that the good idea has limits.