George Soros Quotes

Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test.

What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it.

Investing is about intellectual honesty. You want to know what you know. You want to know, mostly, what you don't know.

Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are.

You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks.

The mandate that I got from my investors is to invest. So far, we are on the right track, and it is the right formula to invest in Indonesia.

Every time we make an investment decision at FedEx, we ask ourselves: 'What is the return on this investment?'

I've always loved to play games, and face it: investing is one big game. You need to be decisive, open-minded, flexible and competitive.

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.

When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?

We think that excellence in investing comes from focus.

Trust me: I know a good investment when I see one.

I'm a very commonsense guy - I just look at the viability of the idea, if I feel the team has the ability to execute the idea. I also look at the investment syndicate, the size of the market, and then a lot of gut married on top of it.

Because everybody else was investing in the consumer Internet, I did, too.

Valuations are always much-debated. I try to center on what is the value to us. Is it solving a problems for us? If it is, we find a way to proceed. If the valuation has been overhyped on something and it doesn't make sense, we won't. It's very simple for me. I tend not to worry too much about the valuation. It's really what the value is to us.

The whole concept of dividing it up into 'value' and 'growth' strikes me as twaddle. It's convenient for a bunch of pension fund consultants to get fees prattling about and a way for one advisor to distinguish himself from another. But, to me, all intelligent investing is value investing.

Even defensive portfolios should be changed from time to time, especially if the securities purchased have an apparently excessive advance and can be replaced by issues much more reasonable priced.

To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.

The beauty of periodic rebalancing is that it forces you to base your investing decisions on a simple, objective standard.

There is no staff. I make all the investment decisions and I do all my own analysis.

The value of the security analyst to the investor depends largely on the investor's own attitude. If the investor asks the analyst the right questions, he is likely to get the right or at least valuable answers.

Warren spends 70 hours a week thinking about investing .

Growth and value investing are joined at the hip.

Doing ventures is great - I'm talking economics now - if you've got a rising market. It's wonderful. If I hadn't got HKT, I would have been just as happy. Because there's a price for everything. And to overpay for something is awful.

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