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“I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone - not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent in 1976-77 - shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain.”

Years Taxes Percent Gains Investment Rate Shy Investors Sensible Capital Gains

Author:Warren Buffett

“To obtain financial freedom, one must be either a business owner, an investor, or both, generating passive income, particularly on a monthly basis.”

Bases Financial Income Owners Investors Passive Financial Freedom Business Owners Passive Income

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of good business conditions. The purchasers view the good current earnings as equivalent to 'earning power' and assume that prosperity is equivalent to safety.”

Years Loss Views Quality Conditions Security Taught Lows Safety Assuming Currents Prosperity Observation Chiefs Investors Earning Taught Us Good Business Purchasers

Author:Benjamin Graham

“Investors operate with limited funds and intelligence, they do not need to know everything. As long as they understand something better than others, they have an edge.”

Knows Needs Long Edges Fund Investors Something Better

Book:The Alchemy of Finance

Source: The Alchemy of Finance

“There are no bad business and investment opportunities, but there are bad entrepreneurs and investors. To be a successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game. The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way.”

“As an investor with small capital, one should prefer businesses that have high returns on capital and that require little incremental investment to grow.”

Should Littles Grows Return Investment Investors

Author:Warren Buffett

“Most investors, both institutional and individual, will find that the best way to own common stocks (shares') is through an index fund that charges minimal fees. Those following this path are sure to beat the net results (after fees and expenses) of the great majority of investment professionals.”

Way Individual Results Common Path Share Beats Majority Investment Following Best Way Fund Expenses Investors Fees Index Funds

Author:Warren Buffett

“When most investors, including the pros, all agree on something, they're usually wrong.”

Agree Including Investors

Author:Carl Icahn

“Ultimately, nothing should be more important to investors than the ability to sleep soundly at night.”

Should Important Night Sleep Ability Investors

Author:Seth Klarman

“Independent thinking is not just helpful in becoming a successful investor, it’s required.”

Thinking Successful Becoming Independent Helpful Investors Independent Thinking

Book:More Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times

Source: More Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times

“As a whole, investors should welcome attempts to safeguard the integrity of markets. You need very clear rules applied to markets.”

Needs Should Whole Clear Integrity Welcome Investors

Author:Mohamed El-Erian

“Most institutional investors feel compelled to swing at almost every pitch and forgo batting selectivity for frequency.”

Feels Investors Swings Compelled Frequency Batting

Author:Seth Klarman

“An investor doesn’t have a prayer of picking a manager that can deliver true alpha.”

Prayer Managers Investors Alphas

Author:Eugene Fama

“Learn to sell. In business you’re always selling: to your prospects, investors and employees. To be the best salesperson put yourself in the shoes of the person to whom you’re selling. Don’t sell your product. Solve their problems.”

Persons Problem Business Products Sells Shoes Solve Selling Being The Best Employee Investors Prospects Salesperson

Author:Mark Cuban

“Hedge funds are investment pools that are relatively unconstrained in what they do. They are relatively unregulated (for now), charge very high fees, will not necessarily give you your money back when you want it, and will generally not tell you what they do. They are supposed to make money all the time, and when they fail at this, their investors redeem and go to someone else who has recently been making money. Every three or four years they deliver a one-in-a-hundred year flood. They are generally run for rich people in Geneva, Switzerland, by rich people in Greenwich, Connecticut.”

“I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.”

Doe Able Process Business Company Technology Building Products Members Creator Invention Boards Valleys Satisfying Investors Founders New Technology Board Members

Author:Marc Andreessen

“Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.”

Believe Mean Stills Bigs Leadership Economy Sitting Tables Investors Ceo Believe In You

Author:Christie Hefner

“We have a desperate need for producers in the [commercial Broadway] theatre, and it is very hard for them to get money and find investors for new plays.”

Needs Hard Play Theatre Producers Crafts Desperate Investors Broadway Get Money Broadway Theatre

Author:Arthur Laurents

“If all of us work in accordance with rule of law, if rule of law is implemented, we are all safe, investors are safe, people will be safe.”

People Ifs Law Safe Investors Rule Of Law

Author:Veerappa Moily

“Employees pay the highest percentage of taxes. Big business and investors pay the least.”

Bigs Pay Taxes Highest Employee Investors Percentages Big Business

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“Just as a fisherman must watch the ebb and flow of the tides, an investor and businessperson must be keenly aware of the subtle shifts in cash flow.”

Watches Flow Subtle Investors Cash Tides Fisherman Ebb And Flow Cash Flow

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.”

Forever Optimism Intelligent Sells Expensive Pessimism Investors Swings Optimist Pessimist Realist Pendulums Unjustified

Book:The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed

Source: The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed

“The investor with a portfolio of sound stocks should expect their prices to fluctuate and should neither be concerned by sizable declines nor become excited by sizable advances. He should always remember that market quotations are there for his convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.”

Should Remember Sound Taken Advantage Concerned Investing Excited Investors Decline Quotations Ignored Convenience Portfolios Taken Advantage

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“Most businesses change in character and quality over the years, sometimes for the better, perhaps more often for the worse. The investor need not watch his companies' performance like a hawk; but he should give it a good, hard look from time to time.”

Needs Giving Should Years Looks Sometimes Hard Character Quality Company Watches Performances Investing Investors Hawks Business Change

Author:Benjamin Graham

“It’s waiting that helps you as an investor, and a lot of people just can’t stand to wait. If you didn’t get the deferred-gratification gene, you’ve got to work very hard to overcome that.”

People Ifs Hard Helping Waiting Overcoming Investors Genes Gratification

Author:Charlie Munger

“I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many serious practitioners.”

Helping Company Serious Industry Investors Equity Cottages Restructuring Private Equity

Author:Wilbur Ross

“When investors, particularly investment bankers, talk about splitting up companies, there's a lot of discussion about multiple expansion, and the reality is multiple expansion is an outcome, not a strategy.”

Reality Company Strategy Investment Discussion Outcomes Investors Multiple Expansion Bankers Splitting Splitting Up

Author:Irene Rosenfeld

“A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings.”

Taken Investors Schemes Typical Earning Ponzi Scheme

Book:The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope

Source: The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope

“In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well. It seems, perhaps, that the longer and longer you keep at it in this business the more and more time you have to expose your Achilles heel - wherever and whatever that might be.”

Wells Seems Might Doors Bills More Time Investors Questioning Heels Gross Icons Achilles Achilles Heel

Author:Bill Gross

“Bond investors want growth much like equity investors, and to the extent that too much austerity leads to recession or stagnation then credit spreads widen out - even if a country can print its own currency and write its own cheques.”

Ifs Want Writing Country Growth Too Much Spread Credit Print Investors Currency Equity Recessions Stagnation Austerity Cheques

Author:Bill Gross

“Whether a tops-down or bottoms-up investor in bonds, stocks, or private equity, the standard analysis tends to judge an investor or his firm on the basis of how the bullish or bearish aspects of the cycle were managed.”

Judging Standards Aspect Bases Bottom Firm Analysis Cycles Investors Equity Private Equity Bullish

Author:Bill Gross

“Both from the standpoint of stocks and bonds, an investor wants to go where the growth is.”

Want Growth Investors Standpoint

Author:Bill Gross

“I find the parallels between how some investors refuse to recognise the trends and our reaction to some of our environmental challenges very powerful. There is an unwillingness to process unpleasant data.”

Process Challenges Powerful Environmental Refuse Reactions Data Trends Investors Parallels Our Environment Very Powerful Recognise Environmental Challenges

Author:Jeremy Grantham

“Market timing, by the way, is a tag some buy-and-hold investors use to put down anything that involves using your brain. These are the same people who like to watch the locomotive coming and get run down in the name of discipline.”

People Way Use Running Names Brain Watches Discipline Investors Timing Tag Locomotives Market Timing Using Your Brain

Author:Jeremy Grantham

“I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance.”

Thinking Long Bigs Values Fall Differences Focused Psychological Finance Realms I've Learned Investors Sellers

Author:James Chanos

“As an investor-entrepreneur, I’ve always tried to be contrarian, to go against the crowd, to identify opportunities in places where people are not looking.”

People Opportunity Entrepreneur Crowds Investors

Author:Peter Thiel

“Wealth is not determined by investment performance, but by investor behavior.”

Wealth Behavior Performances Investment Determined Investors

Book:Simple Wealth, Inevitable Wealth: How You and Your Financial Advisor Can Grow Your Fortune in Stock Mutual Funds

Source: Simple Wealth, Inevitable Wealth: How You and Your Financial Advisor Can Grow Your Fortune in Stock Mutual Funds

“Being a successful investor & winning in the stock market is a matter of skill & discipline and not luck alone”

Matter Winning Successful Discipline Skills Luck Investors

Author:Jack D. Schwager

“An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job.”

Jobs Investment Active Investors Wages

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“If you are able to look beyond near term trouble, you have an advantage over many professional investors”

Ifs Looks Able Term Trouble Advantage Investors

Book:More Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times

Source: More Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times

“I favour passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.”

Successful Information Investing Devices Investors Passive Favour Incorporating Stock Price

Author:Merton Miller

“Investors feel very comfortable working in Georgia”

Feels Comfortable Investors Georgia

Author:Mikhail Saakashvili

“Famed value investor Guy Spier has managed to write what is both a gripping memoir and a fascinating study of what it takes to succeed in investing and life. A must read!”

Writing Guy Values Study Succeed Investing Memoir Fascinating Investors Gripping

Author:John Mihaljevic

“Defaulting on the nation's debt would be cataclysmic. The U.S. Treasury's Aaa rating is the one constant in the world's financial system. When times are bad anywhere on the planet, global investors flock to Treasury bonds because they know they will get their money back.”

Knows World Would Be Nations Planets Constant Financial Debt Investors Flocks Rating Treasury Financial System Treasury Bond

Author:Mark Zandi

“Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow.”

People Desire Grows Growth Company Built Management Investors Genes Salesman

Author:Andy Grove

“The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies that repeat this process because it provides the highest return on that financial capital.”

Process Company Return Highest Financial Corporations Repeats Fund Investors Pension

Author:Paul Hawken

“In real estate, many investors love triple net leases. With NNN's investors receive income without the expenses of taxes, repairs and insurance. The tenant covers these costs.”

Real Cost Taxes Income Expenses Investors Estates Tenants Lease

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform.”

People Ifs Industry Fund Mutual Investors Relentless Unforgiving Mutual Fund

Author:Ron Chernow

“For investor confidence, it is important that there is certainty about the future of Ireland in E.U.”

Important Certainty Investors Ireland

Author:Jose Manuel Barroso

“The amount of U.S. debt held by countries such as China and Japan is at a historic high, with foreign investors holding half of America's publicly held debt. This dependence raises the specter that other nations will be able to influence our policies in ways antithetical to American interests.”

Way Country Able America Nations Interest Half Influence Policy Amount Raises China Debt Japan Investors Dependence Historic China And Japan

Author:Evan Bayh

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