J. B. Pritzker Quotes

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

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.

My experience is that very few people have what it takes to be a successful investor, as I discussed in The Arrogance of Stock Picking.

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

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

Even Warren Buffet is allowed to have an awful year from time to time.

My investment advice is rooted in my understanding of economics.

Floyd has done a lot for me financially and has taught me a lot about business. He did great in making money during his career and he tells me a lot of what he's working on.

If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich.

Our balance sheet provides us with the ability to act on investment opportunities in appropriate areas that diversify and broaden our portfolio, including the gas and energy sector.

Banking types should take their cue from Gordon Gekko. Or pick the best-looking banker in their firm and copy him.

I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?

I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.

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

I don't want to be on anyone's board. I just want to have good investments.

Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin' was good.

I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

When I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.

I invest in funds myself even though I run my own fund for my daughters.

Bonds as an asset class will always be needed, and not just by insurance companies and pension funds but by aging boomers.

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

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

I don't give investment advice.

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

I don't want to be one of those guys that you see who made $4 million, invested $3.5 million, and now you work at Wendy's.