Whitney Tilson Quotes

You could lose hundreds or thousands one day on paper and gain it all back the next, and it has literally no effect on your immediate future, provided the money you have in the market is money you're investing for the long haul (meaning at least three to five years).

The key to making money is to stay invested.

Investing should be dull. It shouldn't be exciting.

I'm making my money make money.

Owning equities is an essential part of anyone's portfolio. You just can't ignore it over time. It's going to add the real pop to anyone's overall performance.

In long term investments, you don't need day to day management.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

Many follow a rule of thumb - no more than 5% in one stock. But that's not the entrepreneurial road to riches.

I really did believe that the most successful investments were the ones that you could own for the long run.

Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.

People with 401(k)s need to be very conservative. Picking bottoms should be for insiders and traders.

I've usually used the phrase 'stay the course' as one of the great rules of investment success.

Never put your savings in risky investments. Only disposable income should find its way there.

We talk about long-term patient investing, and that idea that slow and steady does win the race, that time can be your best friend when it comes to investing. That's why we have a turtle as a logo at Ariel.

What I do for a living is so high-risk that I try to make sure my portfolio is as conservative as possible.

The single best time to invest is at a young age because the dollar in the market today will likely be worth 10 to 50 times that much, after inflation, by the time you reach age 65.

Always invest for the long term.

If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.

We're getting hurt, but I'm a long-term investor.

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

I try to stay ahead of things, if you know what I mean. I take the money I make and reinvest it.

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

Never, ever invest money that you will need prior to three to five years - minimum.

If you're saving for the long run, it's actually a good thing when the market is down because the more shares you have, the more you can potentially make when markets rise. And over time - decades, not months - the markets rise more than they fall.