Quotes of the Week - March 9, 2010:
"Young players, young boys, rich boys - this is the problem."
-- Fabio Capello the England soccer football manager, says money is
spoiling the game.
"I want you to know, Mrs Obama, that I'm your husband's No 1 fan.
And not just because he's a black man. He's mixed. And I wouldn't really
know what that looks like anyway." --Stevie Wonder greets Michelle
Obama, wife of US president.
"I've only been with two men my entire life. I've never even come
close to having a one-night stand." -- Actress Megan Fox says she
is no man-eater.
Topic: Investment Quotes - Famous Investment
Quotes, Quotations, Sayings about Investors and Investing
Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never
forget rule No.1. Warren Buffett
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your
gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second
is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know.
And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the
ones you don't make. Donald Trump
The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one
has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually
predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking
at the market. George Soros
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. J. Paul Getty
Diversify your investments. John Templeton
When I was young I thought that money was the most important
thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. Oscar Wilde
Sell in May, and go away; don't come back until St Leger day. Anonymous Stock-market maxim.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. Woody Allen
It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but
how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose
when you're wrong. George Soros
Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and
money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the
unexpected. George Soros
Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a
solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception. George Soros
Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their
private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention
and I wouldn't under-estimate the value of that, but they're
not designed to take care of social needs. George Soros
October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate
in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November,
May, March, June, December, August and February. Mark Twain
The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy and the
time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell. John Templeton
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people
would be librarians. Warren Buffett
Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls
Royce to get advice from those who take the subway. Warren Buffett
If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market,
you shouldn't be in stocks. John (Jack) Bogle
A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding
to information, misinformation and whim. Kenneth Chang
I hate weekends because there is no stock market. Rene Rivkin
Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if
the market shut down for ten years. Warren Buffett
The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of
them. Peter Lynch
The four most dangerous words in investing are 'This time it's
different'. John Templeton
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly
ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your
life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will
remain with you all the days of your life. Frank Lloyd Wright
Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to
all subsequent times. John Burroughs
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital
in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not
to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. Sigmund Freud
There is no finer investment for any community than putting
milk into babies. Winston Churchill
Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their
own past sorrows. Horore de Balzac
Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting. Billy Rose
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest
people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. Robert Orben
The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather
does on weather forecasters. Jean-Paul Kauffmann
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant
form of misery. Spike Milligan
Investors have very short memories. Roman Abramovich
Goodness is the only investment that never fails. Henry David Thoreau
Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy. Spike Milligan
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin
The best investment on earth is earth. Louis J. Glickman
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer
me the position. Mark Twain
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach
a conclusion. George Bernard Shaw