Floyd Mayweather Jr. Quotes

If you're saving for the long run, it's actually a good thing when the market is down because the more shares you have, the more you can potentially make when markets rise. And over time - decades, not months - the markets rise more than they fall.

I'm going to stash up my cash and invest in real estate. I want to be set up for the end of fighting.

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

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.

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

The key to making money is to stay invested.

My firm has 25,000 high-net-worth clients. A typical account would be that of a couple aged 65 and 60 who need their money to last the rest of their lives, 25 to 35 years.

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.

I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor.

I invested. I wanted to cushion the future. I'm a financial success!

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

The government can’t guarantee that you should earn profit from your investments.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate [on the Stock Market]: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

Far too many of my peers were taken in by the jet-setting rock star lifestyle and didn't realise the money might not last forever - but I have always had an eye on the future and invest in a syndicate to share risk.

Unfortunately, slow and steady in any financial market is actually impossible.

I'm just trying to diversify my portfolio and put myself in a position so when I do retire, the options are limitless.

There are players who tend not to look at the money short-term: they have a bigger plan.

Whatever your income level is, save as much as you can - up to 20 percent, but more if you can - and invest it. Put that into an IRA; put that into a brokerage account.

I think one should definitely invest, not all the money in one go but keep some and invest the rest as and when required.

I have someone who invests my money in a safe way so it continues to grow.

If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.

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).

What we should be trying to do is to encourage people to establish private retirement accounts and help them take pressure off the Social Security system.

We promote domestic savings by also things like the personal accounts associated with the president's Social Security initiative, which over time would generate more savings.