Will Rogers Quotes

It is not the return on my investment that I am concerned about; it's the return of my investment

People are very focused on value and preservation of capital. They're a lot less risk-prone than they used to be.

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

Invest your money safely. Avoid the risky lure of spectacular returns; go for an investment that cannot lose its value. This is why I have put all my spare cash into buying not shares, but thousands of penny chews.

It would be one of the most irritating experiences in the world to do a lot of work to uncover a fraud and then at have it go from X to 3X and at h the crooks happily partying with your money while you're meeting margin calls. Why would you want to go within hailing distance of that?

My basic advise is don't lose money

Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of Safety.

Investors need to get rewarded for their investment, especially in unstable countries.

If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.

Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated.

Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.

As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius.

I have a million dollars in the stock market, because if I lose a million dollars, I don't personally care.

Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.

I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom.

Historically, in India, the strange fact was that the equity owner was not taking as much hit as the lender. Therefore, if we restore the first principle of economics, that first the equity owner needs to take the hit and then the lender, we will get a good solution.

If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.

We want to be a secure investment, a little bit like a bond.

One of our big challenges with the newsletter is that everyone thinks big stocks are safe. That's not true at all. They're only safe if the money is flowing there.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

If you are not making any mistakes, you are being excessively risk-averse. Investing involves risk, and that means you will occasionally be wrong. And although it is okay to be wrong, it is not okay to stay wrong.

Because in the New Normal you are more worried about the return of your capital, not return on your capital.

There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses.

I might make an investment and lose some money, but that's something I can recover from.

In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.