621 Quotes About Investing

If you're lucky enough to have been rewarded in life to the degree that I have, there comes a point at which you have to decide whether to become a slave to your net worth by devoting the rest of your life to increasing it or to let what you've accumulated begin to serve you.

The typical big winner in the Lynch portfolio generally takes three to ten years to play out.

The S&P is up 343.8 percent for 10 years. That is a four-bagger. The general equity funds are up 283 percent. So it's getting worse, the deterioration by professionals is getting worse. The public would be better off in an index fund.

The worst thing you can do is invest in companies you know nothing about. Unfortunately, buying stocks on ignorance is still a popular American pastime.

Stocks are a safe bet, but only if you stay invested long enough to ride out the corrections.

The more cash that builds up in the treasury, the greater the pressure to piss it away.

People who want to know how stocks fared on any given day ask, "Where did the Dow close?" I'm more interested in how many stocks went up versus how many went down. These so-called advance/decline numbers paint a more realistic picture.

In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.

The natural-born investor is a myth.