Suze Orman Quotes

You could lose hundreds or thousands one day on paper and gain it all back the next, and it has literally no effect on your immediate future, provided the money you have in the market is money you're investing for the long haul (meaning at least three to five years).

The key to making money is to stay invested.

I'm a big believer in investing for the long term, and the decisions you make shouldn't be made if the economy is good or bad at a specific time.

Owning equities is an essential part of anyone's portfolio. You just can't ignore it over time. It's going to add the real pop to anyone's overall performance.

Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market.

I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.

I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

I almost always recommend investors get fully invested, since it's better to put your money to work than to let it simply track the rate of inflation.

Stocks change. Industries change. But the underlying reasons certain stocks are good investments remain the same. Only the fullness of time reveals which are the most sound.

I will never be in the stock market. It's just gambling. I'm a gambler, but I'll gamble on the practicality of things.

Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.

The stock market is not a good arbitrator of success over the long term.

We don't really look at the stock, you know? Because for us, it's about the long term. And so we're very much focused on long-term shareholder value but not the short-term kind of stuff.

I've usually used the phrase 'stay the course' as one of the great rules of investment success.

Stock market goes up or down, and you can't adjust your portfolio based on the whims of the market, so you have to have a strategy in a position and stay true to that strategy and not pay attention to noise that could surround any particular investment.

And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing.

In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms.

I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

Money you won't need to use for at least seven years is money for investing. The goal here is to have your account grow over time to help you finance a distant goal, such as building a retirement fund. Since your goal is in the future, money for investing belongs in stocks.

I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.

I really did believe that the most successful investments were the ones that you could own for the long run.

All equity categories, correctly calculated, create near-identical lifelong returns. They just get there via wildly differing paths.

If you're 35, 45, or even 55 - you have a very long time horizon - 40 years or vastly more. That is you, and/or your spouse, are likely to live about that long, and you'll be investing the whole way.