21 best investment quotes (my top picks)
Golden Rules
“The first rule of investment is: Don’t Lose. And the second rule of investment is: Don’t forget the first rule.” - Warren Buffett
“I put two children through Harvard by trading options. Unfortunately, they were my broker’s children.” - Jason Zweig
“If you owe the bank $100, that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem.” - Unknown
“When you want to test the depths of the stream, don’t use both feet.” - Chinese Proverb
“The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.” - Robert Kiyosaki
“History may not repeat itself, but it rhymes.” - Mark Twain
“In the short-run, the market is a voting machine…but in the long-run, the market is a weighing machine.” - Benjamin Graham
On Controlling Emotions
“Fear incites human action far more urgently than does the impressive weight of historical evidence.” - Jeremy Siegel
“Nothing like price to change sentiment.” - Helene Meisler
“If you’re not willing to react with equanimity to a market price decline of 50% two or three times a century, you’re not fit to be a common shareholder and you deserve the mediocre result you’re going to get.” - Charlie Munger
“The four most dangerous words in investing are: ‘This time it’s different.'” - Sir John Templeton
“Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should try to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy only when others are fearful.” - Warren Buffett
“Wall Street sells stocks and bonds, but what it really peddles is hope.” - Jason Zweig
“Wealth isn’t primarily determined by investment performance, but by investor behavior.” - Nick Murray
On Timing The Market
“The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” - A. Gary Shilling
“Trading stocks is simple mathematics—2+2 = 4, but our greed makes it 5 and our panic makes it 3.” - Feroz Ahmed Khan
“It was never my thinking that made the big money for me. It was my sitting.” - Edwin Lefevre
“The time to buy is when there’s blood in the streets.” - Baron Rothschild
On Lifestyle
“Spending money to show people how much money you have is the fastest way to have less money.” - Morgan Housel
“Two essentials for successful retirement are sufficient funds to live on and sufficient things to live for.” - Ernie Zelinski
“If you want to be wealthy, live below your means.” - Paul Merriman