Quotable Quotes

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

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

“Our favorite holding period is forever” – Warren Buffett

“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)

“One of the best rules anybody can learn about investing is to do nothing, absolutely nothing, unless there is something to do.” – Jim Rogers

“Sometimes it is best to simply say “I don’t know exactly what is going to happen, but I think X strategy has a high probability of working. I’m going to put skin-in-the-game and allocate capital according to X strategy. If I see data points Y and Z change, then I will re-evaluate my perspective.” – Pomp

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

“How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.” – Robert G. Allen

“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

“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

“We’ve long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good.” – Warren Buffett

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

“Prices fluctuate more than values – so therein lies opportunity” – Joel Greenblatt

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

“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
