Inspiring Stock Market Quotes for Smart Investing

“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”

“A fool and his money are soon parted, but if you figure out how, you can get in on the action.”

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

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

“Bulls make money, bears make money, but pigs get slaughtered.”

“Buy when there’s blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own.”

“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it… he who doesn’t, pays it.”

“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”

“Do not put all eggs in one basket.”

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

“Fearful investors sell at the bottom and greedy investors buy at the top.”

“I made my money by selling too soon.”

“If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.”

“If you are not willing to own a stock for 10 years, do not even think about owning it for 10 minutes.”

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

“In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.”

“Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February. — Mark Twain”

“Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for ten years.”

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

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

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

“Risk means more things can happen than will happen.”

“Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make.”

“Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.”

“Stock market bubbles don’t grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.”

“Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.”

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

“The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting.”

“The easiest way to make money in the stock market is to avoid trying to make money fast.”

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

“The goal of the non-professional should not be to pick winners, but should rather be to own a cross-section of businesses that, in aggregate, are bound to do well.”

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

“The investor’s chief problem—and even his worst enemy—is likely to be himself.”

“The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.”

“The market is like a roller coaster. If you don’t get on, you’ll never experience the thrill.”

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

“The stock market is a giant distraction from the business of investing.”

“The stock market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient.”

“The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.”

“Time in the market beats timing the market.”

“Volatility is not risk. Avoiding volatility in investing is like avoiding speed in car racing.”

“Wall Street indexes predicted nine out of the last five recessions.”

“Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.”

“We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.”

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