37 Inspirational Investment Quotes By Great Investors

Last updated: Jul 11, 2022


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Sometimes a simple quote is all you need to understand and motivate you. All these quotes come from great investors. They have more than once proven themselves.

Quotes help us understand, inspire, motivate, clarify and show our approach to things around, this is why people and I love quotes. — Takyou Allah Cheikh Malaynine

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Thomas W Phelps


The greatest investing mistake of the public is to pay attention to the prices instead of the value - Thomas W Phelps | 100 to 1 in the Stock Market
Those of us who ask little of life get little. Those who ask much get much. Those who ask too much get nothing. - Thomas W Phelps | 100 to 1 in the Stock Market
Debt is never bad. What one does with it determines the goodness or the badness of the debt. - Thomas W Phelps | 100 to 1 in the Stock Market
Seizure of opportunity is more important than avoidance of risk. Opportunity can reward you 100 fold, risk on the other hand can only make you loose 1x of your capital. - Thomas W Phelps | 100 to 1 in the Stock Market
In Alice in Wonderland one had to run fast to stand still, in the stock markets, one who stands still can really make money fast. - Thomas W Phelps | 100 to 1 in the Stock Market
Many stocks could have been bought at 52 week highs for many years and still turn out 100x winners. All one has to do is identify them and stick to them. - Thomas W Phelps | 100 to 1 in the Stock Market
If you don’t buy what has to be sold, you never really need to sell anything. - Thomas W Phelps | 100 to 1 in the Stock Market
To make money in stocks, you need to have vision to see them, courage to buy them and patience to hold them. Patience is the rarest of the three. - Thomas W Phelps | 100 to 1 in the Stock Market
Don’t listen to opinions, unless you are also given an insight into the assumptions made for making those opinions. - Thomas W Phelps | 100 to 1 in the Stock Market
Far more money can be made by good stock selection, than by good market timing. - Thomas W Phelps | 100 to 1 in the Stock Market
The ability to foresee is rare, and the ability to continue to hold the same buying rational when the stock drops for no apparent reason, is much rarer. Therefore we find it less attractive than before, though it should appear more attractive. - Thomas W Phelps | 100 to 1 in the Stock Market
Technical analysis is not an alternative to fundamental analysis, it is at most to be used as a tool for an entry and an exit after a finalised decision to buy or sell. - Thomas W Phelps | 100 to 1 in the Stock Market
Stay with your most successful stock investments as long as they are increasing their earnings. - Thomas W Phelps | 100 to 1 in the Stock Market
If you think something is attractive in the market, buy it. If it falls lower buy more. These differences may be the ones that make 60x instead of 40x, but it is not worth missing the opportunities all-together. - Thomas W Phelps | 100 to 1 in the Stock Market
All good stocks rise and keep rising, but not everything that is rising is a good stock. - Thomas W Phelps | 100 to 1 in the Stock Market
The more successful one is at market timing, the greater is the temptation to rely on it and thus miss much greater opportunities of buying right and holding on. - Thomas W Phelps | 100 to 1 in the Stock Market
Risk is an essential element in the quest for capital gain. Don’t be dismayed by a loss. Recognise it as one of your costs on the way to a net gain. A perfect track record can almost certainly mean that you are also letting a lot of good opportunities pass you. - Thomas W Phelps | 100 to 1 in the Stock Market

Benjamin Graham

In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighting machine. - Benjamin Graham | The Intelligent Investor
Price is what you pay, value is what you get. Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down. - Ben Graham

Warren Buffet

Be fearful when others are greedy, be greedy when others are fearful. - Warren Buffet
The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient. - Warren Buffett
Games are won by players who focus on the playing field - not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard. - Warren Buffet
It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price, than a fair company at a wonderful price. - Warren Buffet
All there is to investing is picking good stocks at good times and staying with them as long as they remain good companies. - Warren Buffet

Bruce Berkowitz

The more positions you have, the more average you are. - Bruce Berkowitz

Morgan Housel

The market is driven by naratives and emotions in the short term, fundamentials and truth in the long run. - Morgan Housel | The Psychology of Money
Compounding is hard because a bad month can feel longer than a good decade. - Morgan Housel

Jesse Lauriston Livermore

The market always does what it should do, but not always when - Jesse Lauriston Livermore
The stock market is never obvious. It is designed to fool most of the people, most of the time. - Jesse Lauriston Livermore

Peter lynch

Don't take more risk than you need to. The stock market is not like Olympic diving, you won't get any points for difficulty, stick to what you can understand. - Peter lynch
Whatever method you use to pick stocks or stock mutual funds, your ultimate success or failure will depend on your ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow your investments to succeed. - Peter Lynch | Beating the Street
Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgement. If You Spend 13 Minutes A Year On Economics, You’ve Wasted 10 Minutes - Peter Lynch
Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselfes. - Peter Lynch | Learn to Earn
If You Can't Stomach 50% Declines in Your Investment You Will Get the Mediocre Returns You Deserve. - Peter Lynch | Beating the Street
The real key to making money in stocks, is not to get scared out of them. - Peter Lynch

John Maynard Keyne

The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. - John Maynard Keyne