Best Investment Quotes for All Time

Investment Quotes Warren Buffett

"Never invest in a business you cannot understand."

"Remember that the stock market is a manic depressive."

"Beware the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns."

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

"If you aren’t thinking about owning a stock for 10 years, don’t even think about owning it for 10 minutes."

"An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it."

"Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble."

"If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster."

#9. "Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages."

"I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business."

Investment Quotes Jeff Bezos

"If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail."

"I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece."

"In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts."

"My own view is that every company requires a long-term view."

"A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last."

"Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital."

Investment Quotes Bill Gates

"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."

"People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?"

"Only a few businesses will succeed by having the lowest price, so most will need a strategy that includes customer services."

"If you are born poor it's not your mistake, But if you die poor it's your mistake."

"I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful."

"To win big, you sometimes need to take big risks."

Investment Quotes Jack Ma

"If you want to grow, find a good opportunity. Today, if you want to be a great company, think about what social problem you could solve."

"I don't care about revenues."

"The very important thing you should have is patience."

"We are never in lack of money. We lack people with dreams, who can die for those dreams."

"If there are nine rabbits on the ground, if you want to catch one, just focus on one."

"Customer first, employees second, and investor third."

Investment Quotes Peter Lynch

"The natural-born investor is a myth"

"The trick is not to learn to trust your gut feelings, but rather to discipline yourself to ignore them. Stand by your stocks as long as the fundamental story of the company hasn’t changed."

"I'm always fully invested. It's a great feeling to be caught with your pants up."

"Whenever you invest in any company, you're looking for its market cap to rise. This can't happen unless buyers are paying higher prices for the shares, making your investment more valuable."

"People who succeed in the stock market also accept periodic losses, setbacks, and unexpected occurrences."

"In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination."

"Average investors can become experts in their own field and can pick winning stocks as effectively as Wall Street professionals by doing just a little research."

"You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks"

"All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the minuses from the stocks that don't work out."

Investment Quotes Dr. Muhammad Yunus

"In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income."

"Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness."

"Business money is limitless."

"The process of breaking down fear was always my greatest challenge and it was made easier by the careful work and gentle voices of my female workers."

"Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment with sustainable results, and produces other positive effects such as employee motivation and improved organizational culture."

Investment Quotes Benjamin Graham

"The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists."

"The stock investor is neither right or wrong because others agreed or disagreed with him; he is right because his facts and analysis are right."

"Invest only if you would be comfortable owning a stock even if you had no way of knowing its daily share price.3"

"An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return. Operations not meeting these requirements are speculative."

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

Investment Quotes Donald Trump 

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

"I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it."

"Money was never a big motivation for me except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game."

"One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace. Good people don't go into government."

"I was not satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement."

"I had loftier dreams and visions. And there was no way to implement them building houses in the boroughs"

Investment Quotes Robert Kiyosaki

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"In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don’t make mistakes."

"It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life,it’s what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!"

"If you're going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best."

"Often, in the real world, it's not the smart that get ahead but the bold."

Investment Quotes Elon Musk

"I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people's money. I don’t think that's right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself."

"The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur."

"Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster."

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

"I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration."

Investment Quotes Marc Andreessen

"Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not."

"There is a constant need for new systems and new software."

"The venture capital business is a 100% game of outliers- it's extreme exceptions."

"Another thing to highlight that we think a lot about internally is, we have this concept invest in strength vs lack of weakness."

"The companies that have the really extreme strengths, often have serious flaws."

Investment Quotes Dave McClure

"For the most effective pitch, focus 80% on the problem, 20% on the solution."

"I want to invest in a functional product that people are using."

"Entrepreneurs usually don't listen to people. Trust them to do their job. Remember, you invested with the understanding the project was likely to fail."

"I figured maybe I had some talent as an investor… since it seemed like I was only a half-assed entrepreneur."

"The earlier you invest, the higher that attrition rate is because it's compounded. We have a more scientific method of investment."

Investment Quotes Barbara Corcoran

"When you're building a business, you're either all in, or you're not."

"All the best things that happened to me after I was rejected. I knew the power of getting past no."

"My best successes came on the heels of failure."

"Finding opportunity is a matter of believing it's there."

"Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home."