Top 892 Investors Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

There is almost no limit to the ability of investors to ignore the lessons of the past.

My investors expect me to maximize profits.

Investors don't like uncertainty.

Investors feel very comfortable working in Georgia

We call ourselves 'opportunistic value investors.'

Value investing is simple to understand but difficult to implement. Value investors are not supersophisticated analytical wizards who create and apply intricate computer models to find attractive opportunities or assess underlying value. The hard part is discipline, patience, and judgment. Investors need discipline to avoid the many unattractive pitches that are thrown, patience to wait for the right pitch, and judgment to know when it is time to swing.

Providing investors with recourse against governments is valuable.

This is the free enterprise system. The only place in the world that I can recall where companies never failed was the old Soviet Union. This is what investors do in free enterprise and capitalism system. [...[ And, yes, free enterprise system can be cruel. But the problem with this administration is that small businesses are the one who had suffered the most, the kind that need investors, the kinds that don't need the hundreds of pages, thousands of pages of regulations that continue to plague them and have them hold back on the hiring investment.

We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Most investors would be better off in an index fund.

I mean, these good folks are revolutionizing how businesses conduct their business. And, like them, I am very optimistic about our position in the world and about its influence on the United States. We're concerned about the short-term economic news, but long-term I'm optimistic. And so, I hope investors, you know - secondly, I hope investors hold investments for periods of time - that I've always found the best investments are those that you salt away based on economics.

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

All of us would be better investors if we just made fewer decisions.

We upgrade URZ to a Buy; we see an entry opportunity with investors.

The trick of successful investors is to sell when they want to, not when they have to.

My positioning with my investors was always, I need three to five years.

Most investors want to do today what they should have done yesterday.

It was an important and daring decision to open Eletrobras capital to private investors.

Investors have very short memories

The principal role of the mutual fund is to serve its investors.

All investors must come to terms with the relentless continuity of the investment process.

The idea that a bell rings to signal when investors should get into or out of the stock market is simply not credible. After nearly fifty years in this business, I do not know of anybody who has done it successfully and consistently. I don't even know anybody who knows anybody who has done it successfully and consistently. Yet market timing appears to be increasingly embraced by mutual fund investors and the professional managers of fund portfolios alike.

The Berkshire-style investors tend to be less diversified than other people. The academics have done a terrible disservice to intelligent investors by glorifying the idea of diversification. Because I just think the whole concept is literally almost insane. It emphasizes feeling good about not having your investment results depart very much from average investment results. But why would you get on the bandwagon like that if somebody didn't make you with a whip and a gun?

All the equity investors, in total, will surely bear a performance disadvantage per annum equal to the total croupiers' costs they have jointly elected to bear. This is an inescapable fact of life. And it is also inescapable that exactly half of the investors will get a result below the median result after the croupiers' take, which median result may well be somewhere between unexciting and lousy.

Percentage margins are not one of the things we are seeking to optimize. It’s the absolute dollar free cash flow per share that you want to maximize, and if you can do that by lowering margins, we would do that. So if you could take the free cash flow, that’s something that investors can spend. Investors can’t spend percentage margins.

Once investors come in, it's hardly your company anymore!

Investors tend to avoid food companies.

We need the banks to be attractive to investors again.

I must say also, that we are not talking just about foreign investors.

I have no fear about the future for retail investors.

Investors believe in the best possible outcome.

Foreign investors are looking for a consistent and stable policy in India.

Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.

What investors want is growth, margin, and cash.

Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps.

Many U.S. investors are already investing overseas rather than at home.

When most investors, including the pros, all agree on something, they're usually wrong.

The most talented investors are animals solely focused on winning.

What must occur is a greater recognition by investors of their individual responsibility.

Every public company depends to some extent on the trust of its investors.

Great design alone isn't going to yield the results investors are expecting.

Investors can see that Facebook is feeling old and tired and isn't seeming to be that innovative.

Value investors will not invest in businesses that they cannot readily understand or ones they find excessively risky. Hence few value investors will own the shares of technology companies. Many also shun commercial banks, which they consider to have unanalyzable assets, as well as property and casualty insurance companies, which have both unanalyzable assets and liabilities.

Successful investors tend to be unemotional, allowing the greed and fear of others to play into their hands. By having confidence in their own analysis and judgement, they respond to market forces not with blind emotion but with calculated reason. Successful investors, for example, demonstrate caution in frothy markets and steadfast conviction in panicky ones. Indeed, the very way an investor views the market and it’s price fluctuations is a key factor in his or her ultimate investment success or failure.

The government has brought on the housing problem, partly by these very low interest rates, which encouraged many people to go way out on a limb. They've brought it on by highly restrictive building policies, which have caused housing prices to skyrocket artificially. And they've brought it on by the Community Reinvestment Act, which presumes that politicians are better able to tell investors where to put their money than the investors themselves are. When you put all that together, you get something like what you have.

The quality and quantum of potential investors in Africa is huge.

Individual investors predictably flock to stocks in companies that are in the news.

My whole life has been one theme of self-sacrifice for my investors.

Beware angel investors: they can be disruptive.

Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

Investors like to hear that you're in a multi-billion dollar market.

I always say investors invest in lines, not dots.

We need a federal government commission to study the way our financial services system is working - I believe it is working badly - and we also need more educated investors. There are good long term low-priced mutual funds - my favorite is a total stock market index fund - and bad short term highly priced mutual funds. If investors would get themselves educated, and invest in the former - taking their money out of the latter - we would see some automatic improvements in the system, and see them fairly quickly.

Investors need to get rewarded for their investment, especially in unstable countries.

Investors have to remember: corporate profits are going up, but stocks are going up faster. How can that continue indefinitely? Investors can only earn what companies themselves can earn; the government or the markets themselves don't kick anything in. How can you get anything more out of a farm than what it grows?

Where you want to be is always in control, never wishing, always trading, and always first and foremost protecting your ass. That's why most people lose money as individual investors or traders because they're not focusing on losing money. They need to focus on the money that they have at risk and how much capital is at risk in any single investment they have. If everyone spent 90 percent of their time on that, not 90 percent of the time on pie-in-the-sky ideas on how much money they're going to make, then they will be incredibly successful investors.

The energy sector presents exceptional opportunities for governments and investors.

Wise investors won't try to outsmart the market.

Investors aren't willing to accept the idea that we're in an era of lower returns.