Financial Investment Quotes:

Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Ignorance, Littles, Investing, Best Investment, Successful Investing

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Business, Insperational, Mirrors, Market Risk, Investment 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

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Difficult Life, Leaders Motivational

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

- John D. Rockefeller

topic: Life, Success, Business, Successful Investing, Dividends

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

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

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

- Warren Buffett

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

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

In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

- Benjamin Graham

source: Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.179, Prabhat Prakashan

topic: Running, Business, Intelligent, Best Investment, Market Risk

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Enemy, Investing, Looks, Market Risk, Investment Success

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

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

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

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

Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.

- Peter Lynch

topic: Intelligent, Investing, Tickets, Lottery Ticket, Financial Investment

Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.

- Ingvar Kamprad

source: "The Testament of a Furniture Dealer". Book by Ingvar Kamprad, 1976.

topic: Mistake, People Make Mistakes, Financial Investment, Good Night Sleep, Good Sleep

An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

- Henry Ford

topic: Airplane, Wind, Difficult Life, Inspirational Perseverance, Leaders Motivational

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

I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.

- Peter Lynch

topic: Real, Thinking, Investing, Large Companies, Financial Investment

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

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Business, War, Saving, Market Risk, Financial Investment

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Business, Investing, Reputation, Market Risk, Brilliance

People align with movements they can believe in, and it is the human, intellectual, and financial investment in genuine content that defines experiences.

- Brian Solis

topic: Believe, People, Intellectual, Financial Investment

Nobody believes a weather prediction twelve hours ahead. Now we're being asked to believe a prediction that goes out 100 years into the future? And make financial investments based on that prediction? Has everybody lost their minds?

- Michael Crichton

topic: Believe, Years, Weather, Financial Investment

A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.

- Dan Gelber

topic: Strong, School, Florida, Financial Investment, Raising The Bar

I hope that my investment into Atomico will become my best financial investment to date.

- Niklas Zennstrom

topic: Financial, Investment, Financial Investment

The pace at eBay was frantic and urgent. We knew that if we didn't move fast, somebody would come into the market and quash us. Participant doesn't make a lot of sense from a financial investment perspective, so it's unlikely that other people will be approaching the business in the same way. So you see less urgency; you see a thoroughness and willingness to spend extra time to get things right. Which I think is really important.

- Jeffrey Skoll

source: "The Indie Movie Mogul". Interview with Michael S. Malone, www.wired.com. February 1, 2006.

topic: Business, Moving, Thinking, Financial Investment, Thoroughness

Besides my professional goals, I have a couple of private ones, my man. One of those is to pet a kangaroo before I leave Australia. I understand there's lots of Eastern Grays around this area. What do you say? Are you in?' Bergman looked at him like he'd just made the worst financial investment of his life. 'Kangaroos are wild animals. I've heard they claw like girl fighters and kick like jackhammers. You're going to get your skull crushed.' Cole held up a finger. 'Or I'm going to pet a kangaroo. How cool would that be?

- Jennifer Rardin

topic: Girl, Couple, Men, Kangaroos, Financial Investment

If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.

- James Dyson

topic: Writing, Heart, Emotional, Composing Music, Emotional Investment

I don't need legitimization to take part in Israeli productions; I am a good actress. To work in Israel is a financial investment for me. I do it for emotional, not artistic, reasons.

- Mili Avital

topic: Emotional, Israel, Needs, Financial Investment

No one wants to pursue anything creative anymore, because that's too risky. They may not get the kind of return on the financial investment they've made in their education that they think they should.

- Meg Cabot

topic: Thinking, Creative, May, Financial Investment