Story Musgrave Quotes

I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.

Zeroing in on the best sectors or the best regions of the world is great, but zeroing in on the very best individual stocks is the key to making truly impressive profits.

Leave no stone unturned to help your clients realize maximum profits from their investment.

The key to making money is to stay invested.

Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.

I've been investing in the stock market for 27 years and, within that time, have helped investors beat the market nearly four to one.

Investing isn't a game to be won. At the end of the day, it's a way to achieve your big goals, like buying that home, starting that business, and retiring on your own terms.

To be a good investor, you have to think differently from others.

For us, whether the market is skewed from a bubble perspective or not really is mitigated by staying focused on what we do best.

The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.

One way to mitigate our risk is to invest in companies with understandable business models.

I don't really invest too much in the future.

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

I create offbeat advice; I don't follow it. I rarely take third-party advice on my investments.

I believe that good investors are successful not because of their IQ, but because they have an investing discipline. But, what is more disciplined than a machine? A well-researched machine can make many average investors redundant, leaving behind only the really good human investors with exceptional intuition and skill.

I invest in things for the long term and have a long horizon and the flexibility.

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.

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

Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

A constant in my approach to investing: You should think politically but unconventionally.

I'm always investing. I'm constantly in talks with someone about some opportunity.

I'm sometimes accused of being hostile to mutual funds. That's not fair, really. There is a place for them. Still, I am hostile to one thing, which is trying to use funds to time your way in and out of the market. That's a recipe for very bad results.

Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent.

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