Top 50 Investment Quotes to Guide Your Financial Journey

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

“The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.”

“Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.”

“Know what you own, and know why you own it.”

“The four most dangerous words in investing are: 'This time it's different.'”

“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”

“Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.”

“Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.”

“Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.”

“I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.”

“Time in the market beats timing the market.”

“The best investment you can make is in yourself.”

“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world.”

“The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator.”

“Patience is the key to wealth.”

“Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.”

“In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable.”

“Good investing is boring.”

“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”

“The goal of the non-professional investor should not be to pick winners but to own a broad portfolio and reduce costs to the minimum.”

“Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”

“It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong.”

“Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria.”

“Far more money has been lost by investors trying to anticipate corrections, than lost in the corrections themselves.”

“The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism and unjustified pessimism.”

“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”

“The secret to investing is to figure out the value of something - and then pay a lot less.”

“Never depend on a single income. Make investment to create a second source.”

“The function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.”

“Success in investing doesn't correlate with IQ... what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.”

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now.”

“Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results.”

“Do not put all eggs in one basket.”

“Financial freedom is available to those who learn about it and work for it.”

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”

“Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.”

“The biggest risk of all is not taking one.”

“Diversification is protection against ignorance.”

“If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.”

“To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing... but definitely don't invest like that.”

“Investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game.”

“Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!”

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

“Financial peace isn't the acquisition of stuff. It's learning to live on less than you make.”

“The market is a voting machine in the short term and a weighing machine in the long term.”

“Investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.”

“Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.”

“Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency.”

“Earn as much as you can, save as much as you can, invest as much as you can, give as much as you can.”

“You don't have to be smarter than the rest. You have to be more disciplined than the rest.”