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“If you're going to invest in an Internet stock, you must be a long-term investor.”

Ifs Long Term Internet Long Term Investors

“If you can't come clean and tell investors how and why you failed, that raises a red flag. They need to see that you learned from it and came back stronger.”

Ifs Needs Red Stronger Raises Clean Investors Flags Red Flags

Author:Daymond John

“I mean, these good folks are revolutionizing how businesses conduct their business. And, like them, I am very optimistic about our position in the world and about its influence on the United States. We're concerned about the short-term economic news, but long-term I'm optimistic. And so, I hope investors, you know - secondly, I hope investors hold investments for periods of time - that I've always found the best investments are those that you salt away based on economics.”

“Stock prices are likely to be among the prices that are relatively vulnerable to purely social movements because there is no accepted theory by which to understand the worth of stocks....investors have no model or at best a very incomplete model of behavior of prices, dividend, or earnings, of speculative assets.”

Social Movement Theory Behavior Models Investing Accepted Vulnerable Assets Investors Earning Incomplete Dividends Social Movements Stock Price

Author:Robert J. Shiller

“South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.”

Example South Various Investors South Africa

Author:Susan Rice

“Consumer groups fought hard to provide investor protections for special entities such as pension funds, schools, and municipalities who purchase swaps. No comparable protection exists in the futures market.”

Hard School Groups Special Protection Consumers Fund Investors Entity Pension Municipality

Author:Daniel L. Doctoroff

“The value of market esoterica to the consumer of investment advice is a different story. In my opinion, investment success will not be produced by arcane formulae, computer programs or signals flashed by the price behavior of stocks and markets. Rather an investor will succeed by coupling good business judgment with an ability to insulate his thoughts and behavior from the super-contagious emotions that swirl about the marketplace.”

“Price fluctuations have only one significant meaning for the true investor. They provide him with an opportunity to buy wisely when prices fall sharply and to sell wisely when they advance a great deal.”

Fall Opportunity Deals Sells Investing Significant Investors Fluctuation

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“The most realistic distinction between the investor and the speculator is found in their attitude toward stock-market movements. The speculator's primary interest lies in anticipating and profiting from market fluctuations. The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices. Market movements are important to him in a practical sense, because they alternately create low price levels at which he would be wise to buy and high price levels at which he certainly should refrain from buying and probably would be wise to sell.”

“we have complaints that institutional dominance of the stock market has put 'the small investor at a disadvantage because he can't compete with the trust companies' huge resources, etc. The facts are quite the opposite. It may be that the institutions are better equipped than the individual to speculate in the market.But I am convinced that an individual investor with sound principles, and soundly advised, can do distinctly better over the long pull than large institutions.”

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Author:Benjamin Graham

“Investors who find the best businesses to put their money behind are rewarded for their research.”

Behinds Research Investors Best Business

Author:Kenneth C. Griffin

“My advice to this investor is the same that I give to the young investors in my classes Devote the same earnest attention to investing that $50,000 as you devoted to earning it.”

Giving Young Attention Class Advice Investing Investors Devoted Earning Earnest Earning It

Author:Ivan Boesky

“I believe investors should invest for the long run, so I don't buy and sell. I usually maintain the classic index of global equities, diversified U.S. and global and emerging markets, and when the risk is larger, I diminish the amount in global equities and put more into liquid assets - but very irregularly.”

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Author:Nouriel Roubini

“Experience taught me to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.”

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Book:Trump: The Art of the Deal

Source: Trump: The Art of the Deal

“The thing that's confusing for investors is that founders don't know how to be CEO. I didn't know how to do the job when I was a CEO. Founder CEOs don't know how to be CEOs, but it doesn't mean they can't learn. The question is... can the founder learn that job and can they tolerate all mistakes they will make doing it?”

Knows Mean Jobs Mistake Know How Investors Tolerate Founders Ceo Confusing

Author:Ben Horowitz

“Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day.”

May Information Rising Investors Volatility

Author:Alex Berenson

“The government has brought on the housing problem, partly by these very low interest rates, which encouraged many people to go way out on a limb. They've brought it on by highly restrictive building policies, which have caused housing prices to skyrocket artificially. And they've brought it on by the Community Reinvestment Act, which presumes that politicians are better able to tell investors where to put their money than the investors themselves are. When you put all that together, you get something like what you have.”

People Way Problem Government Able Together Interest Community Policy Building Politician Lows Rate Investors Limbs Housing Interest Rate

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Audiences arent fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all.”

Important Film Audience Risk Fool Hero Judgement Investors True Hero

Author:Stephen Frears

“As long as you've got serious investors who wish to put money into football, I applaud. It proves that football is attractive. What upsets me, what I find scandalous is when clubs accept fools.”

Long Wish Accepting Football Serious Fool Prove Clubs Upset Attractive Investors Scandalous

Author:Sepp Blatter

“The United States has the most sophisticated financial markets in the world, which does not leave much room to maneuver. But it also offers investors the greatest access to information and the ability to execute trades quickly and efficiently. So it is a mixed bag of opportunity.”

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Author:Andrew Lo

“Steve McClellan has drawn on an insider's lifetime view of how Wall Street really works to produce a practical and entertaining book of advice for investors. Whether you are a new or experienced investor you'll get something valuable out of it, including more than a few chuckles.”

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Author:Charles O. Rossotti

“It is better to be early than too late in recognizing the passing of one era, the waning of old investment favorites and the advent of a new era affording new opportunities for the investor.”

Opportunity Late Investment Passing Passings Eras Too Late Investors Recognizing Advent New Era New Opportunity Affording

Author:Thomas Rowe Price, Jr.

“Change is the investor's only certainty.”

Certainty Investors

Author:Thomas Rowe Price, Jr.

“We must look after our own before lining the pockets of overseas countries and investors.”

Looks Country Pockets Investors

Author:Pauline Hanson

“There is always a critical job to be done. There is a sales door to be opened, a credit line to be established, a new important employee to be found, or a business technique to be learned. The venture investor must always be on call to advise, to persuade, to dissuade, to encourage, but always to help build. Then venture capital becomes true creative capital - creating growth for the company and financial success for the investing organization”

Source: The First Venture Capitalist: Georges Doriot on Leadership, Capital, & Business Organization

“The tax-exempt privilege is a feature always reflected in the market price of [municipal] bonds. The investor pays for it.”

Pay Taxes Privilege Features Investors

Author:Louis D. Brandeis

“What the carburetor, sparkplug and self-starter are to an automobile, initiative, private enterprise and executive ability are to industry as a whole, including the wage earner, wage payer, wage spender and wage saver, i.e., the investor. If the sparkplug and self-starter get out of commission, the car will come to a standstill.”

Ifs Self Whole Ability Car Industry Including Enterprise Executives Investors Initiative Automobile Starters Private Enterprise Standstill Self Starter

Author:William J. H. Boetcker

“If you expect to be a net saver during the next 5 years, should you hope for a higher or lower stock market during that period? Many investors get this one wrong. Even though they are going to be net buyers of stocks for many years to come, they are elated when stock prices rise and depressed when they fall. This reaction makes no sense. Only those who will be sellers of equities in the near future should be happy at seeing stocks rise. Prospective purchasers should much prefer sinking prices.”

Ifs Should Years Fall Next Seeing Higher Periods Reactions Investors Equity Sinking Sellers Buyers Stock Price Purchasers

Author:Warren Buffett

“If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative that boards of directors be so constituted as to adequately represent the interests and inspire the complete confidence of investors of moderate substance.”

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Author:B. C. Forbes

“Surprise! The returns reported by mutual funds aren't actually earned by mutual fund investors.”

Return Surprise Investing Fund Mutual Investors Mutual Fund

Book:The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns

Source: The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns

“The American economy is going to do fine. But it won't do fine every year and every week and every month. I mean, if you don't believe that, forget about buying stocks anyway... It's a positive-sum game, long term. And the only way an investor can get killed is by high fees or by trying to outsmart the market.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the passive group - the "know-nothings" - must win.”

Knows Mean Winning Greater Groups Return Investing Active Investors Passive Percentages Brethren

Author:Warren Buffett

“Investors, of course, can, by their own behavior make stock ownership highly risky. And many do. Active trading, attempts to "time" market movements, inadequate diversification, the payment of high and unnecessary fees to managers and advisors, and the use of borrowed money can destroy the decent returns that a life-long owner of equities would otherwise enjoy. Indeed, borrowed money has no place in the investor's tool kit.”

“The distribution of the market is fat-tailed relative to the normal distribution... For passive investors, none of this matters, beyond being aware that outlier returns are more common than would be expected if return distributions were normal.”

Ifs Matter Would Be Common Return Normal Investing Expected Fats Investors Relative Passive Distribution Outliers

Author:Eugene Fama

“Even fans of actively managed funds often concede that most other investors would be better off in index funds. But buoyed by abundant self-confidence, these folks aren't about to give up on actively managed funds themselves. A tad delusional? I think so. Picking the best-performing funds is 'like trying to predict the dice before you roll them down the craps table,' says an investment adviser in Boca Raton, FL. 'I can't do it. The public can't do it.'”

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Author:Paul Samuelson

“Still, I figure we shouldn't' discourage fans of actively managed funds. With all their buying and selling, active investors ensure the market is reasonably efficient. That makes it possible for the rest of us to do the sensible thing, which is to index. Want to join me in this parasitic behavior? To build a well-diversified portfolio, you might stash 70 percent of your stock portfolio into a Wilshire 5000-index fund and the remaining 30 percent in an international-index fund.”

“The word passive does a disservice to investors considering their options. Indexing provides an effective means of owning the market and allows investors to participate in the returns of a basket of stocks. The basket of stocks changes over time as stocks are added or removed based on its rules.”

Mean Doe Return Investing Investors Passive Considering Baskets Disservice Changes Over Time Indexing

Author:Charles R. Schwab

“Unless an investor has access to “incredibly high-qualified professionals,” they “should be 100 percent passive - that includes almost all individual investors and most institutional investors.”

Should Individual Percent Investing Access Investors Passive Qualified

Author:David F. Swensen

“But whatever the consensus on the EMH, I know of no serious academic, professional money manager, trained security analyst, or intelligent individual investor who would disagree with the thrust of EMH: The stock market itself is a demanding taskmaster. It sets a high hurdle that few investors can leap.”

Knows Individual Security Serious Intelligent Investing Managers Leap Disagree Investors Academic Consensus Thrust Analysts Hurdle

Author:John C. Bogle

“While the apostles of the new so-called "behavioral" theory present ample evidence of how often human beings make irrational financial decisions, it remains to be seen whether these decisions lead to predictable errors that create systematic mispricings upon which rational investors can readily and economically capitalize.”

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Author:John C. Bogle

“The efficient market theory is one of the better models in the sense that it can be taken as true for every purpose I can think of. For investment purposes, there are very few investors that shouldn't behave as if markets are totally efficient.”

Ifs Thinking I Can Purpose Taken Theory Models Investment Investing Behave Investors Efficient Efficient Markets

Author:Eugene Fama

“Question: So investors shouldn't delude themselves about beating the market? Answer: "They're just not going to do it. It's just not going to happen."”

Happens Answers Investing Investors

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“Investors... can't pick stocks that are better than average. Stocks are a good thing to own over time. There's only two things you can do wrong: You can buy the wrong ones, and you can buy or sell them at the wrong time. And the truth is you never need to sell them.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“There are a few investment managers, of course, who are very good - though in the short run, it's difficult to determine whether a great record is due to luck or talent. Most advisors, however, are far better at generating high fees than they are at generating high returns. In truth, their core competence is salesmanship. Rather than listen to their siren songs, investors - large and small - should instead read Jack Bogle's The Little Book of Common Sense Investing.”

“Fund investors are confident that they can easily select superior fund managers. They are wrong.”

Investing Superiors Managers Fund Investors Select

Book:The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns

Source: The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns

“The commission of the investment sins listed above is not limited to 'the little guy.' Huge institutional investors, viewed as a group, have long underperformed the unsophisticated index-fund investor who simply sits tight for decades. A major reason has been fees: Many institutions pay substantial sums to consultants who, in turn, recommend high-fee managers. And that is a fool's game.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“Nothing highlights better the continuing gap between rhetoric and substance in British financial services than the failure of providers here to emulate Jack Bogle's index fund success in the United States. Every professional in the City knows that index funds should be core building blocks in any long-term investor's portfolio. Since 1976, the Vanguard index funds has produced a compound annual return of 12 percent, better than three-quarters of its peer group.”

“Millions of mutual-fund investors sleep well at night, serene in the belief that superior outcomes result from pooling funds with like-minded investors and engaging high-quality investment managers to provide professional insight. The conventional wisdom ends up hopelessly unwise, as evidence shows an overwhelming rate of failure by mutual funds to deliver on promises.”

“While it is probably a poor idea to own actively managed funds in general, it is truly a terrible idea to own them in taxable accounts... taxes are a drag on performance of up to 4 percentage points each year... many index funds allow your capital gains to grow largely undisturbed until you sell... For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.”

Years Mean Ideas Grows Poor Terrible Taxes Gains Performances Accounts Sells Sorry Investing Fund Investors Drag Percentages Capital Gains Index Funds Indexing

Author:William J. Bernstein

“For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.”

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