📈 Investing Quotes — Masters of the Market

50 famous investing quotes from Buffett, Graham, Munger, Lynch, Bogle & more, with who said them (English)

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1. "Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful."Warren Buffett — Go against the crowd's emotions.
2. "Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget Rule No.1."Warren Buffett — Protect your capital first.
3. "Price is what you pay; value is what you get."Warren Buffett — Focus on value, not the sticker price.
4. "It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price."Warren Buffett — Quality beats cheapness.
5. "If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes."Warren Buffett — Invest for the long term.
6. "Our favorite holding period is forever."Warren Buffett — Hold great businesses.
7. "Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing."Warren Buffett — Ignorance is the real risk.
8. "The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient."Warren Buffett — Patience pays.
9. "Only when the tide goes out do you learn who has been swimming naked."Warren Buffett — Crises expose weak positions.
10. "In the short run the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine."Benjamin Graham — Short-term is sentiment; long-term is value.
11. "The investor's chief problem, and even his worst enemy, is likely to be himself."Benjamin Graham — Master your emotions.
12. "The three most important words in investing: margin of safety."Benjamin Graham — Buy well below value to absorb mistakes.
13. "Mr. Market is there to serve you, not to guide you."Benjamin Graham — Use the market's mood swings; don't follow them.
14. "The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting."Charlie Munger — Patience.
15. "Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up."Charlie Munger — Keep learning.
16. "Invert, always invert."Charlie Munger — Solve problems backward.
17. "Invest in what you know."Peter Lynch — Stick to businesses you understand.
18. "Selling your winners and holding your losers is like cutting the flowers and watering the weeds."Peter Lynch — Don't dump gains and cling to losses.
19. "Far more money has been lost preparing for corrections than in the corrections themselves."Peter Lynch — Don't panic-time the market.
20. "Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack."John Bogle — Buy the whole index.
21. "Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy."John Bogle — Be patient and low-cost.
22. "Buy quality stocks, take sleeping pills, and wake up rich years later."André Kostolany — Avoid frequent trading.
23. "A stock price is like a dog on a leash: it wanders but returns to its owner, the economy."André Kostolany — Prices revert to value.
24. "Diversification is the only free lunch in investing."Harry Markowitz — Spreading risk improves risk-adjusted return.
25. "Diversification is the Holy Grail of investing."Ray Dalio — Combine uncorrelated assets.
26. "It's not whether you're right or wrong, but how much you make when right and how much you lose when wrong."George Soros — The size of wins and losses matters most.
27. "It was never my thinking that made the big money for me. It was my sitting."Jesse Livermore — Ride trends patiently.
28. "Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria."John Templeton — The cycle of market psychology.
29. "The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy."John Templeton — Buy when others despair.
30. "The four most dangerous words in investing are: 'This time it's different.'"John Templeton — Bubbles repeat.
31. "When most investors, including the pros, all agree on something, they're usually wrong."Carl Icahn — Look at the other side of the crowd.
32. "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."John Maynard Keynes — Timing can break you even when you're right.
33. "Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world."Often attributed to Albert Einstein — The snowballing power of compounding.
34. "Cut your losses short and let your winners run."Wall Street maxim — Manage risk, ride gains.
35. "Buy the rumor, sell the news."Wall Street maxim — Expectations get priced in early.
36. "Don't try to catch a falling knife."Wall Street maxim — Beware buying into a sharp drop.
37. "Don't put all your eggs in one basket."Investing proverb — Diversify.
38. "Time in the market beats timing the market."Wall Street maxim — Consistency beats prediction.
39. "If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money."George Soros — Good investing is disciplined, not thrilling.
40. "Buy when there's blood in the streets."Attributed to Baron Rothschild — Buy at peak fear.
41. "Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing."Warren Buffett — Concentrate when you truly know a business.
42. "If you can't stomach declines, you're not ready to make money in stocks."Peter Lynch — Accept volatility.
43. "The intelligent investor sells to optimists and buys from pessimists."Benjamin Graham — Trade against the crowd's mood.
44. "Know what you own, and know why you own it."Peter Lynch — Understand every holding.
45. "When you buy a stock, you're buying a piece of a business."Warren Buffett — Think like an owner.
46. "The best investment you can make is in yourself."Warren Buffett — Grow your own skills.
47. "The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect."Warren Buffett — Composure beats IQ.
48. "In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable."Robert Arnott — Embrace contrarian discomfort.
49. "Wall Street makes its money on activity; you make yours on inactivity."Warren Buffett — Trade less.
50. "Return of capital matters more than return on capital."Wall Street maxim — Protect your principal first.

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