Best investment quotes

aroominyork

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”.

InvesterJones

"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.

Eyeful

Jack Bogle  quote " Don't do something, just stand there "

masonic

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"

LHW99

"This time it’s not different"

Benjamin Graham

aroominyork

Does anyone have a quote which doesn't favour passive investing...???

Peter314

aroominyork said:

Does anyone have a quote which doesn't favour passive investing...???

"You've got to speculate to accumulate". Dunno who first said it, maybe they died poor in obscurity...

Bostonerimus1

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." 

wmb194

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

Cus

“Investing is not supposed to be easy. Anyone who finds it easy is stupid.” — Charlie Munger

jimjames

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." 

Even 150+ years on this is still the guide that everyone should be aiming to live by.