Top 25 Investment Quotes| Investing Quotes

     Here are the Top 25 Quotes on Investment from experts like Warren Buffett, Benjamin Graham, Robert Kiyosaki,Peter Lynch and others that will inspire you, motivate you and guide you.



These quotes would be more helpful and beneficial for you if you not just read them but also take your time to think about them and try to understand what the authors wants to say. So let's start,


1. To be successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game."                            

                      -Robert Kiyosaki.

Successful Investors don't get depressed on losing or overconfident on winning. They focus on executing their investment strategy perfectly.


2. Successful Investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it. 

                         - Benjamin Graham.

Successful Investors know that risk is the part of the process and they plan for it. Most people get caught up with how much money they are going to make and avoid planning for the inevitable loss that they will experience.


3. The wisest rule in Investment is when others are selling,buy. When others are buying,sell."                                                        - Jonathan Sacks.

The crowd majority is almost on the wrong side every time. Be it Real estate, Stock market or even cryptocurrency.


4. Never test the depth of the river with both of your feet." 

                                Warren Buffett, click here for more quotes from him.

While taking risk or making an Investment you are not fully aware of, make sure you have second chance if you fail.


5. The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left. 

                           Robert Kiyosaki, click here for more quotes from him.

Robert Kiyosaki says, Financially with every dollar we get in our hands, we hold the power to choose our future to be rich, poor or middle class.
Our spending habits reflect who we are. Poor people simply have poor spending habits.


6. Don't work for money, make it work for you.                                                                     - Robert Kiyosaki

  When your income comes from a job, you are working for the money, when you invest, you are making money work for you.
  

7. When you invest, you are buying a day that you don't have to work."

                                          - Aya Laraya.

As said in the previous quote, when you invest, you are making money work for you. So after years of Investing, your hard working money would provide you with another source of income.


8. How many Millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by Investing in saving accounts? I rest my case." 

                                         -Robert Allen.

While it may be a good idea to save money for the emergency fund but you can't move ahead in this fast changing world without taking some risk.


9. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. 

                            - Benjamin Franklin.

Well every successful investor credits his success to his desire for knowledge. In fact, Warren Buffett once said that he spends 80% of his day reading.


10. In Investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable. 

                                   - Robert Arnott.

If an Investment is comfortable, it would be predictable and everyone would know about it. To get an edge in investing, you have to get out of your comfort zone.



11. Know what you own, and know why you own it."  

                                    -Peter Lynch.

Never invest in anything you don't really understand and have a financial goal set in your mind before making an Investment.


12. Wide diversification is only required when Investors do not understand what they are doing."                   -Warren Buffett.

If you diversify too much, you might not lose much, but you won't gain much either. 
If you have done enough research and understand about your investment, you don't need much diversification.


13. The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing."                           

                                  -Philip Fisher.

  Price and value of the stock are not always the same. 
Philip Fisher use to question the customers, former employees, suppliers, competitors and the management team of the company he was interested in to get a clearer picture of the value of a potential stock before Investing.



14. Investment is somewhat like cricket, where you change your game plan as per the format.                                                   -Vijay Kedia.

The idea here is that if you are a long term Investor then you require a different mindset and rules then a short term Investor and vice-versa.


15. Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.  

                                          - Warren Buffett.

An average millionaire has seven sources of income. Warren Buffett have around 70 different sources.

16. The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

                         -Warren Buffett
  
 The past performance of the stock or business doesn't guarantee the future returns. 



17. Investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game.    

                            - Benjamin Graham

 Graham here tells about the importance of self discipline.
 Intelligent investing is controlling yourself from buying high just because everyone is buying and selling low just because everyone is selling. 
You can't control the market behavior but you can control yours.


18. We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.                                                     - Warren Buffett.

 For being a successful Investor, having discipline is more important than having Intelligence. 
The discipline to form our own opinions and conclusions about a stock based on the facts and numbers and  being unaffected by others opinions and conclusions. 
The discipline to say 'no' for the stocks you don't feel confident about even though everyone is trying to turn you into saying yes.




19. Investing should be like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement... go to las vegas.  

                            - Paul Samuelson.

Good Investment takes time. Most of the Successful Investors focus on the long-term gains. In fact 99% of the Warren Buffett wealth was earned after his 52nd birthday.



20. Do not put all your eggs in one basket.   -                                                                             Warren Buffett.

As easy it may sound, the great wisdom this sentence holds can't be denied. You could have survived every market bubble by following only this quote.


21. The investor's chief problem and even his worst enemy is likely to be himself.                                                                         -  Benjamin Graham

  Controlling their emotions and maintaining the discipline should be the primary concern of an investor.


22.  I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock and there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small Companies grow to large Companies.
                                  -Peter Lynch

  Many people trading stocks forget or ignore the fact that what they are trading are actually a part of an enterprise. 
In the long run, the stocks go up only because the enterprise or the business does well.


 23. You get recession, you get stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you are not ready and you will not do well in the markets.
                                  -Peter Lynch

 Recession and Stock market declines are part of the economic cycle. The best thing you can do is be prepared for it.


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

  The attractive fundamentals of the stock may initially drive the prices higher, then a type of herd mentality takes over and people don't want to miss the boat of high returns received by others eventually creating a bubble caused by misconception of the reality.
  

25. The single greatest edge an investor can have is a long term orientation.   
                                       -Seth Klarman

 Money can be made in the short-term but the wealth is made in the long term.



These were the top 25 investment quotes. Which quote do you find to be the most inspiring ?

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