621 Quotes About Investing

The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.

Valuing a business is part art and part science.

In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

I love making movies. But it's a lot of investing your heart and soul. It can be exhausting.

If yields are rising over there, they provide a better investing opportunity.

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

If some lose their whole fortunes, they will drag many more down with them . . . believe me that the whole system of credit and finance which is carried on here at Rome in the Forum, is inextricably bound up with the revenues of the Asiatic province. If Those revenues are destroyed, our whole system of credit will come down with a crash.