Successful Investing Quotes

All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the minuses from the stocks that don't work out.

Successful investing is about having people agree with you ... later.

We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.'

one of the greatest deterrents to successful investing is the three-letter word ego.

You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.

Successful investing is about owning businesses and reaping the huge rewards provided by the dividends and earnings growth of our nation's - and, for that matter, the world's - corporations.

Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

Very successful people say no to almost everything.

You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

Successful investing professionals are disciplined and consistent and they think a great deal about what they do and how they do it.

The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.

In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing.

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.

Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes.

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Successful investors tend to be unemotional, allowing the greed and fear of others to play into their hands. By having confidence in their own analysis and judgement, they respond to market forces not with blind emotion but with calculated reason. Successful investors, for example, demonstrate caution in frothy markets and steadfast conviction in panicky ones. Indeed, the very way an investor views the market and it’s price fluctuations is a key factor in his or her ultimate investment success or failure.

The most important key to successful investing can be summed up in just two words-asset allocation.

Taking this view, it is possible to see financial markets as a laboratory for testing hypotheses, albeit not strictly scientific ones. The truth is, successful investing is a kind of alchemy.