We've gathered 29 awesome quotes from some of the smartest folks in finance to help guide you through the stock market in 2024 and beyond. Whether you're just getting started or you've been at it for a while, these insights from top investors and thinkers will give you a boost and maybe even a new perspective on how to grow your money.
- Warren Buffett: "The stock market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient."
- Benjamin Graham: "The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists."
- Peter Lynch: "Know what you own, and know why you own it."
- John Maynard Keynes: "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."
- Ray Dalio: "Diversifying well is the most important thing you need to do in order to invest well."
- Charlie Munger: "The big money is not in the buying and the selling, but in the waiting."
- Philip Fisher: "The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing."
- Muriel Siebert (First woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange): "You create opportunities by performing, not complaining."
- Paul Samuelson: "Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas."
- George Soros: "If investing is entertaining, if you’re having fun, you’re probably not making any money. Good investing is boring."
- Robert Arnott: "In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable."
- Seth Klarman: "The single greatest edge an investor can have is a long-term orientation."
- Howard Marks: "You can't predict. You can prepare."
- Jack Bogle: "Buy right and hold tight."
- Warren Buffett: "It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price."
- Benjamin Franklin: "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb: "Don’t look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!"
- Warren Buffett: "Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing."
- Peter Lynch: "The best stock to buy may be the one you already own."
- David Dodd: "The goal of the non-professional should not be to pick winners – neither he nor his 'helpers' can do that – but should rather be to own a cross-section of businesses that in aggregate are bound to do well."
- Carl Icahn: "The key to success in the stock market is to have a lot of patience, a lot of patience."
- Thomas Phelps: "To make money in stocks you must have the vision to see them, the courage to buy them, and the patience to hold them."
- Warren Buffett: "Our favorite holding period is forever."
- Philip Fisher: "Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you."
- Charlie Munger: "All intelligent investing is value investing — acquiring more than you are paying for."
- James Rogers: "The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets."
- Michael Burry: "All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low."
- Bill Gross: "Finding the best person or the best organization to invest your money is one of the most important financial decisions you'll ever make."
- John (Jack) Bogle: "The idea that a bell rings to signal when investors should get into or out of the market is simply not credible. After nearly 50 years in this business, I do not know of anybody who has done it successfully and consistently. I don’t even know of anybody who knows anybody who has done it successfully and consistently."
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