621 Quotes About Investing

Thousands of people have tried, and the evidence is clear: The more you trade, the less you keep.

Never buy a stock because it has gone up or sell one because it has gone down.

Although there are good and bad companies, there is no such thing as a good stock; there are only good stock prices, which come and go.

An investor calculates what a stock is worth, based on the value of its businesses.

The best values today are often found in the stocks that were once hot and have since gone cold.

The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. This means ... that he should be able to justify every purchase he makes and each price he pays by impersonal, objective reasoning that satisfies him that he is getting more than his money's worth for his purchase.

It's nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.

It should be remembered that a decline of 50% fully offsets a preceding advance of 100%.

The true investor... will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operation results of his companies.