I Quotes
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“Investing is not far from playing the lottery or any game of chance. You always have to be ready to lose or gain.”
“Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes.”
“Investing is simple, but not easy.”
“Investing is skill, knowledge, and research. But in reverse.”
“Investing is the greatest business in the world because you never have to swing. You stand at the plate; the pitcher throws you General Motors at 47! U.S. Steel at 39! And nobody calls a strike on you. There's no penalty except opportunity. All day you wait for the pitch you like; then, when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.”
“Investing is the intersection of economics and psychology.”
“Investing is the intersection of economics and psychology. The analysis is actually the easy part. The economics, the valuation of the business isn't that hard. The psychology - how much do you buy, do you buy it at this price, do you wait for a lower price, what do you do when it looks like the world might end - those things are harder. Knowing whether you stand there, buy more, or whether something has legitimately gone wrong and you need to sell, those are harder things. That you learn with experience, by having the right psychological makeup.”
“Investing is where you find a few great companies and then sit on your ass.”
“Investing isn’t a game - It has a substantive impact on the living of life and the development of civilization. It’s not just about stock tickers and opening bells and timing buys and sells to get a quick profit in the gap…. It effects when and where houses are built, the quality of schools, the accessibility of organic food, the price of solar relative to gasoline…. Investments direct the development of civilization.”
“Investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game.”
Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel
“Investing isn’t risky; not being in control is risky.”
“Investing, like spirituality, has a lot to do with energy, frequency and vibration. But it takes mastery to figure out how. And then even more mastery to apply the knowledge toward desirable results.”
“Investing, like spirituality, has a lot to do with the flow of energy.”
“Investing now in safe-guarding people by helping them to adapt to climate change, will help save money and lives while building resilience.”
“Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of our children.”
“Investing requires a substantial amount of effort, skill, and wisdom. However, it shouldn’t be laborious. Look at the trees in the forest - are any of them laboring? Are any of the trees in the forest hustling or grinding? No, the trees in the forest are not laboring, hustling or grinding. It’s a natural flow, a progressive accumulation. The trees in the forest are active, yes. But their activity is with calm, temperance, strategy, consistency and faith - not laborious. At Mayflower-Plymouth, we invest like the trees in the forest - with calm, temperance, strategy, consistency, and faith.”
“Investing requires qualities of temperament way more than it requires qualities of intellect.”
“Investing requires vision, patience, research, and strategy.”
“Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.”
“Investing solely for 'income,' investing merely 'to keep capital employed,' and investing simply 'to hedge against inflation' are all entirely out of the question.”
Source: Battle for Investment Survival
“Investing the time in climbing, descending, or traversing toward a new perspective is always worthwhile.”
Source: Livology: A Global Guide to a Deliberate Life
“Investing today may well be harder than it has been at any time in our three decades of existence.”
“Investing without a clear understanding of associated risk is like a child is playing with fire. Risk assets are called risk assets for a reason.”
“Investing your trust in an individual who evades responsibility while effortlessly shifting blame onto you lacks dependability. Trust is founded on the capability to assume accountability; however, narcissists neither possess the capacity for responsibility nor the willingness to accept it – they consistently allocate blame instead.”
“Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets.”
“Investment banking practices promoted a surge of predatory lending to originate loans and created a market for buying bonds based on them.”
Source: Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street
“Investment banks are pressured to create hype and stimulate "investor appetite.”
Source: Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street
“Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities.”
“Investment banks started recruiting at Harvard back in the day, and they'd fly me down to New York City and I was so poor so I would take advantage of the free flight, the per diem, the hotel. And then I would go audition for stuff.”
“Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.”
“Investment bubbles and high animal spirits do not materialize out of thin air. They need extremely favorable economic fundamentals together with free and easy, cheap credit, and they need it for at least two or three years. Importantly, they also need serial pleasant surprises in such critical variables as global GNP growth.”
“Investment decision should be made on the basis of the most probable compounding of after-tax net worth with minimum risk.”
“Investment decisions and personal decisions don't wait for the picture to be clarified.”
“Investment ideas, like women are often more exciting than punctual.”
“Investment in AIDS will be repaid a thousand-fold in lives saved and communities held together.”
“Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.”
“Investment in girls' education may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world.”
Source: Investing in All the People: Educating Women in Developing Countries
“Investment in green technology is to be welcomed, but is it enough? It is not just about changing technologies. That has to go hand in hand with changing the way we live and work.”
“Investment in infrastructure is a long term requirement for growth and a long term factor that will make growth sustainable.”
“Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.”
Source: The complete Murphy's law: a definitive collection
“Investment in the eradication of hunger today is a good business decision. If we fail to make this investment, it is doubtful that we can sustain healthy economic growth. Without this investment, our nation may disintegrate into a country sharply divided between those who have enough to eat and those who do not.”
“Investment is a flighty bird which needs to be controlled.”
“Investment is all about building wealth with a reasonable rate-of-return. Play this game for a long haul.”
“Investment is as important as the funeral cover. Even if you don’t want it. You need it, because you will use it in the future. With the little you have. Learn how to invest, save and buy shares. You will thank yourself in the future. We won’t see financial freedom. When we spend, throw, and blow every cent or penny we have. Financial freedom is to be financially responsible.”
“Investment is Human Resources capable of Implementation of Ideas.”
Source: 21 Day Target and Achievement Planner [Use Only Printed Work Book: LIFE IS SIMPLE HENCE SIMPLE WORKBOOK
“Investment is not only volatile, it is the key motor of the economy's prosperity because it has a snowball effect.”
Source: The State We're In: (Revised Edition)
“Investment is somewhat like cricket, where you change your game plan as per the format.”
“Investment must be rational; if you can't understand it, don't do it.”
“Investment performance doesn't determine real-life returns; investor behavior does.”
“Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks he owns businesses, not pieces of paper.”