There are a lot of investment quotes on the internet from several people. These quotes stem from various levels of experience and exposure, but in this article, we have filtered the very best of these successful investment quotes to help boost your mindset.
Over the years, a lot of classes and lessons have been dropped on how to make the right investments. However, the best lessons are learned from years of experience and gained knowledge and are taught by ‘masters’ in the game.
In this article, we have gathered for you a list of successful investment quotes from great minds, like Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch, Benjamin Graham, and others.
Quotes on Market Correction
You need to know the market’s going to go down sometimes. If you’re not ready for that, you shouldn’t own stocks. And it’s good when it happens.
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Peter Lynch
A correction is nothing more than a Wall Street euphemism for losing a lot of money very rapidly.”
Peter Lynch
The novice soon learns that stocks are likely to maintain an upward or downward trend for long periods of time with minor interruptions of the major trend.
Philip Carret
A market downturn doesn’t bother us. It is an opportunity to increase our ownership of great companies with great management at good prices.
Warren Buffett
After a stock market decline, people may perceive more risk than before when, in fact, the decline may have taken some of the risk out of the market.
Robert Shiller
I’ve found that when the market’s going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future, you will be happy.
Peter Lynch
Missing the bottom on the way up won’t cost you anything. It’s missing the top on the way down that’s always expensive.
Peter Lynch
The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists
Benjamin Graham
Corrections are unpredictable. By selling stocks to avoid pain, you can miss the next gain.
Peter Lynch
Quotes on Thinking Long-term
Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett
Waiting helps you as an investor, and a lot of people just can’t stand to wait. If you don’t get the deferred-gratification gene, you’ve got to work very hard to overcome that.
Charlie Munger
The best way to measure your investing success is not by whether you’re beating the market, but by whether you’ve put in place a financial plan and a behavioral discipline that are likely to get
Warren Buffett
The stock market is a device to transfer money from the impatient to the patient
Charlie Munger
Invest for the long haul. Don’t get too greedy and don’t get too scared.
Stanley M. C. Davies
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
No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.
Warren Buffett
Quotes about Short-term Market Forecasts
The only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good.
Warren Buffet
The function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
John Kenneth Galbrath
Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you about the future.
Warren Buffet
Thousands of experts study overbought indicators, head-and-shoulder patterns, put-call ratios, the Fed’s policy on money supply… and they can’t predict markets with any useful consistency, any more than the gizzard squeezers could tell the Roman emperors when the Huns would attack.
Peter Lynch
Short-term market forecasts are poison and should be kept locked up in a safe place, away from children and also from grown-ups who behave in the market like children.
Warren Buffet
Quotes about Timing the Market
The underlying driving force behind market timing decisions seems to be emotional — fear, greed, chasing performance — buying something after it has gone up, disappointment, and sales after something has declined.
David Swensen
The idea that a bell rings to signal when to get into or out of the stock market is simply not credible. After nearly fifty years in this business, I don’t know anybody who has done it successfully and consistently. I don’t even know anybody who has.
John Bogle
It makes no sense for individual investors to jump in and out of the market. People who trade in that way rarely die rich, whereas the patient investor often does.
Philip Carter
General Investment Quotes
The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.
Warren Buffet
Investing puts money to work. The only reason to save money is to invest it.
Grant Cardone
Never depend on a single income, make an investment to create a second source.
Warren Buffet
Do not save what is left after spending but spend what is left after saving.
Warren Buffet
Do not put all your eggs in one basket.
Warren Buffet
I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.
Warren Buffet
Everyone wants a piece of land. It’s the only sure investment, it can never depreciate like a car or a washing machine.
Russel Sage
Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make.
Donald Trump
In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money.
Michael Jordan
Invest in yourself, you can afford it, trust me.
Rashon Carraway
The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you are not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible of a company that can go bankrupt.
Jim Rogers
Earn as much as you can, save as much as you can, invest as much as you can, give as much as you can.
John Wesley
To be a successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game.
Robert Kiyosaki
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
Henry David Thoreau
If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.
Warren Buffet
90% of all millionaires become so through owning real estate.
Andrew Carnegie
Wise spending is part of wise investing. And it’s never too late to start.
Rhonda Katz
When you invest, you are buying a day that you don’t have to work.
Aya Laraya
The wisest rule in investment is: when others are selling, buy. When others are buying, sell.
Jonathan Sacks
Never test the depth of the river with both of your feet.
Warren Buffet
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left.
Robert Kiyosaki
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
Don’t work for money; make it work for you.
Robert Kiyosaki
Investors should purchase stocks like they purchase groceries, not like they purchase perfume.
Ben Graham
Rule #1: Never lose money; Rule #2: Don’t forget rule #1.
Warren Buffett
The four most dangerous words in investing are: ‘this time it’s different.
Sir John Templeton
When you invest, you are buying a day that you don’t have to work.
Aya Laraya
Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing.
Warren Buffett
Investing time in yourself is the only safe investment that will give you maximum return throughout life.
Lyrikal
The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.
Andrew Carnegie
An investment in education is an investment in our future.
David Wasinger
If you want your children to turn out well, invest twice as much time with them and half as much money.
Abigail Van Buren
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
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn
How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.
Robert Allen
The largest 100 corporations hold 25% of the worldwide productive assets, which in turn control 75% of international trade and 98% of all foreign direct investment.
Peter Drucker
Real estate is about the safest investment in the world.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The best gift, and investment, you can give your child is your time.
Kevin Heath
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Gordon B. Hinkley
If you want to be truly successful, invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.
Sydney Madwed
I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life until then.
Warren Buffet
Great investors like Benjamin Graham may be dead, but their wealth of knowledge and expertise lives on through the great citations they left behind.
These successful investment quotes will guide your way through the financial market.