Money & Finance: Investment Quotes

Explore a curated collection of investment quotes that illuminate core principles such as patience, diversification, risk management, and the power of compounding. These concise insights from thinkers, investors, and economists offer perspective on markets, valuation, and long-term discipline. Whether you are starting to build wealth or refining a seasoned strategy, this selection aims to motivate clear thinking and steady action. Use these lines to frame goals, navigate volatility, and keep focus on sustainable growth in money and finance.

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"Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it"

Will Rogers, Actor

Small: Will Rogers

"Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do"

Charles A. Jaffe, Businessman

Small: Charles A. Jaffe

"Nobody ever lost money taking a profit"

Bernard Baruch, Businessman

"Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

Small: Francis Bacon

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

Warren Buffett, Businessman

Small: Warren Buffett

"Gentlemen prefer bonds"

Andrew Mellon, Businessman

"I made my money by selling too soon"

Bernard Baruch, Businessman

"Buy land, they're not making it anymore"

Mark Twain, Author

Small: Mark Twain

"I buy when other people are selling"

J. Paul Getty, Businessman

Small: J. Paul Getty

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

Warren Buffett, Businessman

Small: Warren Buffett

"States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities"

Corrine Brown, Politician

Small: Corrine Brown

"Oil and gas have been important drivers of Norway's economic growth, but we must invest in renewable energy and new technologies to secure a sustainable future"

Jens Stoltenberg, Politician

Small: Jens Stoltenberg

"A lot of people love Oreos. So their manufacturer is making money. That means more dividends for shareholders"

Maria Bartiromo, Journalist

"Don't bottom fish"

Peter Lynch, Businessman

"Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth"

Alfred Marshall, Economist

"If a business does well, the stock eventually follows"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

Small: Warren Buffett

"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, Businessman

Small: Warren Buffett

"Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

Small: Warren Buffett

"The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

Small: John D. Rockefeller

"If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice"

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

"It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket"

Elon Musk, Businessman

Small: Elon Musk

"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, Economist

"We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs"

Carol Moseley Braun, Politician

"It's not just buying the company. Sure, we picked the right companies, and we picked the right management and, most importantly, we've given them the right incentive to perform"

Henry Kravis, Businessman

"I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that"

Arthur Levitt, Public Servant

"Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau"

Irving Fisher, Economist

"Shareholder activism is not a privilege - it is a right and a responsibility. When we invest in a company, we own part of that company and we are partly responsible for how that company progresses. If we believe there is something going wrong with the company, then we, as shareholders, must become active and vocal"

Mark Mobius, Businessman

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

Robert G. Allen, Writer

"The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay"

George Stephenson, Inventor

"Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

Small: Karl Marx

"Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful""

Warren Buffett, Businessman

Small: Warren Buffett

"If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

Small: Warren Buffett

"We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

Small: Warren Buffett

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

Warren Buffett, Businessman

Small: Warren Buffett

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

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

Small: John D. Rockefeller

"You must spend money to make money"

Plautus, Playwright

Small: Plautus

"The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods"

Paul Dirac, Physicist

"Investing is all about taking calculated risks and being disciplined with your strategy"

Øystein Stray Spetalen, Businessman

Small: Øystein Stray Spetalen

"So everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it, and get it incorporated into prices"

Merton Miller, Economist

"Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics"

Merton Miller, Economist

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