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Best investment quotes
aroominyork
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Let's have a round of best investment quotes. Because I came across this gem today from Jack Bogle “Don’t look for the needle, buy the haystack”.
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"investing isn’t about beating others at their game. It’s about controlling yourself at your own game"
“People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers.”
"In the short run the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine."
-Benjamin Graham
"The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" J M Keynes.
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Jack Bogle quote " Don't do something, just stand there "
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A few Buffett quotes:"The stock market is designed to transfer money from the active to the patient""Only when the tide goes out do you see who's been swimming naked""The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging"3
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"This time it’s not different"Benjamin Graham2
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Does anyone have a quote which doesn't favour passive investing...???
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"You've got to speculate to accumulate". Dunno who first said it, maybe they died poor in obscurity...aroominyork said:Does anyone have a quote which doesn't favour passive investing...???0 -
Another Bogleism:
"You get what you don't pay for".
My guiding light is Dickens's Mr. Micawber:
"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery."
And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.1 -
Some variation on, 'Trees don't grow to the sky and neither do share prices.'
https://barrypopik.com/blog/no_tree_grows_to_the_sky_wall_street_adage
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“Investing is not supposed to be easy. Anyone who finds it easy is stupid.” — Charlie Munger
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Even 150+ years on this is still the guide that everyone should be aiming to live by.Bostonerimus1 said:My guiding light is Dickens's Mr. Micawber:
"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery."Remember the saying: if it looks too good to be true it almost certainly is.0
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