Investing Wisdom

"Time is your friend, impulse is your enemy. Take advantage of compound interest and don't be captivated by the siren song of the market."  -- Warren Buffett

“But investing isn’t about beating others at their game. It’s about controlling yourself at your own game.” -- Benjamin Graham  

"The key to success [in investing] lies in avoiding losers, not in searching for winners."  -- Howard S. Marks

"My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest."  -- Warren Buffett

"All intelligent investing is value investing - acquiring more than you are paying for.  You must value the business in order to value the stock."  -- Charlie Munger

"In the short turn, the market is a voting machine but in the long run it is a weighing machine."  -- Benjamin Graham

"Avoiding serious loss is a precondition for sustaining a high compound rate of growth."  -- Roger Lowenstein

“Activity is the enemy of investment returns.”  -- 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

"Dishonest money dwindles away, but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow."  -- Proverbs 13:11

"Rule #1:  Never Lose Money;  Rule #2:  Never Forget Rule #1."  -- Warren Buffett


"An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and a satisfactory return. Operations not meeting these requirements are speculative." -- Ben Graham

"We don't have to be smarter than the rest.  We have to be more disciplined than the rest."  -- Warren Buffett

"The prudent person foresees danger and takes precautions." -- Proverbs 22:3

"Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety." -- Benjamin Graham

"Someone asked me once if I could condense into five words the most important qualities needed for a good investor, and I repled: ‘Motivation, humility, hard work, discipline.’” -- Mark Mobius

"Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." -- Warren Buffett


"Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up."  -- Charlie Munger

"Fallible, emotional people determine price; cold, hard cash determines value." -- Christopher C. Davis

"Trading on emotions is nearly always the wrong thing to do." -- Hank Greenberg

"Never depend on a single income, make an investment to create a second source." -- Warren Buffet

"When you invest you are buying a day that you don’t have to work." -- Aya Laraya

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." -- Benjamin Franklin

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

"Financial peace isn't the acquisition of stuff. It's learning to live on less than you make, so you can give money back and have money to invest. You can't win until you do this." -- Dave Ramsey

"Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas." -- Paul Samuelson