Investing Money Quotes:

I advise women to invest in real estate. It is the collateral to be preferred above all others, and the safest means of investing money.

- Hetty Green

topic: Real, Mean, Investing Money, Collateral

You want to be greedy when others are fearful.

- Howard Warren Buffett

source: "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

topic: Investing Money, Want, Buffets

Many businesses fail because the owner wasn't willing to invest and wasn't educated on the difference between spending money frivolously and investing money into the business for growth, and the risks and rewards of that cash infusion.

- Carol Roth

topic: Investing Money, Differences, Risk, Spending Money, Risk And Reward

Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.

- Peter Lynch

source: Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

topic: Investing Money, Brain, Making Money, Brain Power

If we assume that there are normal or standard income results to be obtained from investing money in securities, then the role of the adviser can be more readily established. He will use his superior training and experience to protect his clients against mistakes and to make sure that they obtain the results to which their money is entitled.

- Benjamin Graham

source: Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

topic: Mistake, Investing Money, Training, Training And Experience

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

- Donald Trump

source: Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.28, Ballantine Books

topic: Investing Money, Entrepreneur, Paper, Best Investment, Successful Businessman

Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

- Warren Buffett

source: Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman's Letter, 2008.

topic: Investing Money, Talking, Quality, Best Investment, Market Risk

I've seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage -- leverage being borrowed money. You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Smart, Investing Money, People, Borrowed Money

You're dealing with a lot of silly people in the marketplace; it's like a great big casino and everyone else is boozing. If you can stick with Pepsi, you should be OK.

- Warren Buffett

source: "Warren Buffett - In 1974". Forbes Article, www.forbes.com. April 30, 2008.

topic: Silly, Investing Money, People, Investing Your Time, Silly People

Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Baby, Successful, Discipline, Great Talent, Investing Your Time

How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.

- Robert G. Allen

topic: Money, Investing, Saving, Best Investment, Investing Your Time

If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.

- George Soros

source: "The Winning Investment Habits of Warren Buffett & George Soros". Book by Mark Tier, 2006.

topic: Fun, Investing, Boring, Investing Money

Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth.

- Paul Clitheroe

topic: Careers, Wealth, Invest In Yourself, Best Investment, Financial Success

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. When it comes to investing, nothing will pay off more than educating yourself. Do the necessary research, study and analysis before making any investment decisions.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Decision, Analysis, Investing, Best Investment, Good Money

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Life, Business, War, Best Investment, Market Risk

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

- Warren Buffett

topic: Business, War, Insightful, Best Investment, Market Risk

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

topic: Money, Winning, Giving, Best Investment, Financial Investment

If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Inspirational, Money, Buying Things, Personal Finance, Investing Money

You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Baby, Nine, Months, Successful Investing, Changing My Ways

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Success, Young Entrepreneurs, Makin Money

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Leadership, Money, Business, Makin Money, Frugality

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Life, Money, Time, Best Investment, Time And Money

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

- Warren Buffett

topic: War, Opportunity, Ideas, Damn Things, Original Ideas

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

topic: Wall, People, Advice, Best Investment, Profitable

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Funny, Money, Business, Makin Money, Best Investment

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Funny, Success, Money, Makin Money, Market Risk

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Makin Money, Market Risk

The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Business, Tables, Want, Great Company, Investing Money

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Business, Finding Yourself, Time Management, Market Risk, Profitable

The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed triumphs. Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball.

- Warren Buffett

topic: People, Balls, Lines, Best Investment, Investing Money

Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Rationality, Effortless, Dose, Investing Money

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

- Warren Buffett

topic: War, Past, Yesterday, Profitable, Investing Your Time

I have pledged - to you, the rating agencies and myself - to always run Berkshire with more than ample cash. We never want to count on the kindness of strangers in order to meet tomorrow's obligations. When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Running, Kindness, Business, Investing Money

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Life, Motivational, Success, Business Life, Inspiring Business

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

topic: Motivational, Money, Business, Best Investment, Investment Success

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Ignorance, Interesting, Investing, Market Risk, Profitable

Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.

- Jim Rogers

topic: Years, World, Four, Best Investment, Financial Advice

Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change. With Wrigley chewing gum, it's the lack of change that appeals to me. I don't think it is going to be hurt by the Internet. That's the kind of business I like.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Hurt, Business, Thinking, Chewing, Chewing Gum

Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Want, Company, Investing Money

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

- Donald Trump

topic: Inspirational, Sometimes, Investment, Best Investment, Investment Success

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

topic: Money, Years, Next, Makin Money, Best Investment

When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Life, Sleep, Night, Omaha, Investing Money

I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Running, Business, Trying, Market Risk, Investing Money

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Inspirational, Life, Honesty, Makin Money, Inspiring Business

You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Business, Games, Guy, Investing Your Time, Investment Success

When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Business, Forever, Management, Long Term, Investing Money

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Effort, Matter, Talent, Great Talent, Successful Investing

Investors should remember that their scorecard is not computed using Olympic-diving methods: Degree-of-difficulty doesn't count. If you are right about a business whose value is largely dependent on a single key factor that is both easy to understand and enduring, the payoff is the same as if you had correctly analyzed an investment alternative characterized by many constantly shifting and complex variables.

- Warren Buffett

source: Letter To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. March 7, 1995.

topic: Keys, Degrees, Alternatives, Investment Success, Payoff

Our favorite holding period is forever.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Funny Inspirational, Business, War, Best Investment, Investing In Real Estate

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Success, Money, Fear, Investment Success, Financial Investment