Investing Wisdom Quotes

"Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful."

— Warren Buffett

"Mr. Market's job is to provide you with prices; your job is to decide whether it is to your advantage to act on them. You don't have to trade with him just because he constantly begs you to."

— Benjamin Graham

"The best time to buy is when blood is running in the streets."

— Baron Rothschild

"The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient."

— Warren Buffett

"Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy."

— Jack Bogle

"The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting."

— Charlie Munger

"In the short run, the market is a voting machine. In the long run, it's a weighing machine."

— Benjamin Graham

"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."

— Warren Buffett

"Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack."

— Jack Bogle

"The four most dangerous words in investing are: 'This time it's different.'"

— Sir John Templeton

"Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing."

— Warren Buffett

"The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator."

— Benjamin Graham

"It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price."

— Warren Buffett

"The investor who permits himself to be stampeded or unduly worried by unjustified market declines in his holdings is perversely transforming his basic advantage into a basic disadvantage."

— Benjamin Graham

"I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years."

— Warren Buffett

"Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections than has been lost in corrections themselves."

— Peter Lynch

"Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing."

— Warren Buffett

"If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas. Investing should be boring."

— Paul Samuelson

"Our favorite holding period is forever."

— Warren Buffett

"The biggest risk of all is not taking one."

— Charlie Munger

"The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect."

— Warren Buffett

"Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it. He who doesn't, pays it."

— Albert Einstein (attributed)

"The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing."

— Philip Fisher

"If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks."

— Jack Bogle

"The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."

— John Maynard Keynes

"Know what you own, and know why you own it."

— Peter Lynch

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

— Benjamin Franklin

"The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them."

— Peter Lynch

"The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don't have to swing at everything—you can wait for your pitch."

— Warren Buffett

"In this business, if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten."

— Peter Lynch