It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong.
- George Soros - Topics: Trader, Stock Market, Investing.
There's no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or worse, to buy more of it when the fundamentals are deteriorating.
- Peter Lynch - Topics: Stock Market, Money Management, Investing, Trader, Wall Street.
To buy when others are despondently selling and to sell when others are euphorically buying takes the greatest courage, but provides the greatest profit.
- John Templeton - Topics: Wall Street, Stock Market, Investing.
Average investors can become experts in their own field and can pick winning stocks as effectively as Wall Street professionals by doing just a little research.
- Peter Lynch - Topics: Wall Street, Stock Market, Investing.
In this business, if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.
- Peter Lynch - Topics: Stock Market, Investing, Forecasting, Trader.
Markets are irrational in the short term but not over the long term. They sometimes offer fire sale prices on the greatest companies in the world.
- Fred Wilson - Topics: Wall Street, Stock Market, Investing.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche - Topics: Investing.
When all the experts and forecasts agree, something else is going to happen.
- Bob Farrell - Topics: Wall Street, Trader, Stock Market, Investing, Forecasting.
Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.
- Peter Lynch - Topics: Investing, Stock Market, Wall Street.
When everyone thinks alike, no one is thinking clearly.
- Marc Faber - Topics: Forecasting, Investing, Stock Market.
Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it. Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe. Compound interest is the greatest mathematical discovery of all time.
- Albert Einstein - Topics: Investing.
In economics the majority is always wrong.
- John Kenneth Galbraith - Topics: Economist, Forecasting, Investing.
Price is what you pay, value is what you get.
- Warren Buffett - Topics: Stock Market, Investing.
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
- William Feather - Topics: Wall Street, Trader, Stock Market, Investing.
There are two kinds of investors, be they large or small: those who don't know where the market is headed, and those who don't know that they don't know. Then again, there is a third type of investor - the investment professional, who indeed knows that he or she doesn't know, but whose livelihood depends upon appearing to know.
- William Bernstein - Topics: Wall Street, Stock Market, Investing.
It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
- Warren Buffett - Topics: Wall Street, Stock Market, Investing.
People who exit the stock market to avoid a decline are odds-on favorites to miss the next rally.
- Peter Lynch - Topics: Wall Street, Trader, Stock Market, Investing.
Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria. The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy, and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell.
- John Templeton - Topics: Trader, Wall Street, Stock Market, Investing.
If you don't study any companies, you have the same success buying stocks as you do in a poker game if you bet without looking at your cards.
- Peter Lynch - Topics: Stock Market, Investing.
In this business it’s easy to confuse luck with brains.
- Jim Simons - Topics: Investing, Stock Market, Trader, Wall Street.
Most people get interested when everyone else is. The time to be interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well.
- Warren Buffett - Topics: Investing, Stock Market, Wall Street.
If everybody's waiting for a bounce to sell, either the market doesn't bounce or, if it does, you shouldn't sell into it.
- Bob Farrell - Topics: Trader, Investing, Wall Street.
Find the trend whose premise is false, and bet against it.
- George Soros - Topics: Forecasting, Investing, Stock Market, Trader, Wall Street.
I would never have thought that the same number of bitcoin would have a purchasing power on the order of real estate.
- Jeremy Sturdivant - Topics: Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Investing.
If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.
- George Soros - Topics: Investing, Money Management, Stock Market, Trader, Wall Street, Wealth.
If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
- Norman R. Augustine - Topics: Investing, Stock Market, Wall Street.
Buy low and sell high. It's pretty simple. The problem is knowing what's low and what's high.
- Jim Rogers - Topics: Investing, Stock Market, Wall Street.
Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
The pockets change, the suckers change, the stocks change, but Wall Street never changes, because human nature never changes.
- Jesse Livermore - Topics: Stock Market, Money Management, Investing, Trader, Wall Street.
Any fool can buy a company. You should be congratulated when you sell.
- Henry Kravis - Topics: Wall Street, Trader, Stock Market, Investing.
The only thing you can be sure of is that there are times when large numbers of stocks are priced too high and other times when they're priced too low.
- Benjamin Graham - Topics: Wall Street, Stock Market, Investing.
Markets can be volatile from time to time. However, stock prices follow earnings accumulation over the long term.
- Naved Abdali - Topics: Investing, Stock Market, Wall Street.
Owning stocks is like having children. Don't get involved with more than you can handle.
- Peter Lynch - Topics: Wall Street, Stock Market, Money Management, Investing.
Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux, and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
- George Soros - Topics: Trader, Stock Market, Investing, Forecasting, Wall Street.
Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
- Peter Lynch - Topics: Wealth, Wall Street, Stock Market, Investing.
Science progresses one funeral at a time.
- Max Planck - Topics: Monetary Policy, Investing, Forecasting, Economist.
You learn a little about yourself during bull markets. You learn a lot of about yourself during bear markets.
- Ian McMillan - Topics: Investing, Wall Street.
If you don't understand a company, if you can't explain it to a ten year old in two minutes or less, don't own it.
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
- Warren Buffett - Topics: Stock Market, Investing, Wall Street.
The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.
Selling your winners and holding your losers is like cutting the flowers and watering the weeds.
Wall Street makes its money on activity. You make your money on inactivity.
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