Quotable Quotes

“If I’ve made one mistake in the course of managing investments it was selling really good companies too soon.” – Lou Simpson

“The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.” – Benjamin Graham

“Every decade or so, dark clouds will fill the economic skies, and they will briefly rain gold.” – Warren Buffet

“The stock market is the only market where things go on sale and all the customers run out of the store…” – Cullen Roche

“Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket” – Andrew Carnegie

“Our favorite holding period is forever” – Warren Buffett

“Skeptics sound smart. Optimists make money” – Nat Friedman

“Diversification is the one free lunch of investing, and when you see a free lunch, the only rational thing to do is eat.” -Cliff Asness

“The whole secret of investment is to find places where it’s safe and wise to non-diversify. It’s just that simple.” – Charlie Munger

“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.” – Isaac Newton

“Be bold and brave, then diversify and remain paranoid.” – Morgan Housel

“To repeat, while such an index-driven strategy may not be the best investment strategy ever devised, the number of investment strategies that are worse is infinite.”-John Bogle

“Advisors can create the best portfolios in the world, but they won’t really matter if the clients don’t stay in them.” – Harry Markowitz

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” – Carl Sandburg

“Diversification is for those who lack conviction” – Cameron Winklevoss

“….Give me bad news any day over complete uncertainty.” -Jim Paulsen

“Bear Market: An episode during which common stocks are returned to their rightful owners.” – Traditional Wall Street definition

“Know when to sell. Ideally, the time to sell is…almost never. But there’re 3 instances where we might need to sell: 1) our analysis is wrong 2) prospects of business have deteriorated 3) There’s a better opportunity” – Thomas Chua (Twiiter post)

“Everyone is a disciplined, long-term investor…until the market goes down.” -Steve Forbes

“Here’s the thing about behavioral economics. People are crazy.” – Phil Pearlman

“You can’t be normal and expect abnormal returns.” – Jeffrey Pfeffer

“The presence or absence of intrinsic productive capacity that lends itself to rational valuation seems to me the dividing line between investment and speculation” – Nick Murray

“Let every man divide his money into three parts, and invest a third in land, a third in business, and a third let him keep by him in reserve.” – Ancient Talmud
