Gavyn Davies Quotes

I made a tremendous amount of money on real estate. I'll take real estate rather than go to Wall Street and get 2.8 percent. Forget about it.

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it's probably a bad business in which to invest.

I invested in many companies, and I'm happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don't like capitalism, you don't like making money with stock, move to Cuba or China.

Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets.

Even from the very beginning, I didn't put any money in the stock market.

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

What I'm saying is that there are bargains right now, there are stocks right now that if you're shrewd enough, you will be able to buy them at the opening today and I you'll make money in a year from now.

If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.

Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market.

The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.

I could never gamble on stocks and shares because I saw my father get hurt that way - he lost quite a lot of money when the stock market collapsed in 2001.

I am not criticizing investing in the stock market; I am an investor.

If there's a recession, I'd buy stocks. That's when you make money: when markets are spooked.

When you can't lend or trade - and you can't invest with the leverage that juiced returns to support seven- and eight-figure bonuses - how exactly are you going to make money?

Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.

Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.

I don't think anybody ever makes any money buying and selling stock. They have to make money by keeping the stock.

There's still a lot of investors wondering what to invest in. And, of course, I think entertainment looks attractive when you read the few films that make these insane amounts of money. What they don't know is they don't always do that.

There's so much disagreement about investing, and it's because nobody really knows.

My advice to most people is don't short stocks. It's a very, very difficult business. And you can really get clobbered.

I'm glad I don't have a lot of money in the market. And quite frankly, you'd be better off giving your money to a colorblind roulette addict than put it in the stock market.

The good news is, the stock market is closed and it can't hurt us again until tomorrow.

If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.

While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster

People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers. And that, in turn, is why Wall Street perennially downplays the durable virtues of investing and hypes the gaudy appeal of speculation.