Charles Schwab Quotes

I had some airline stock, but the airlines tanked. I didn't have a lot of money in them, though.

With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they'd bust it to Corporal!

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

The very first stock I bought right out of college was Berkshire Hathaway.

I had a few stocks, but stocks took a dive. I never sell my stocks.

If you are not making any mistakes, you are being excessively risk-averse. Investing involves risk, and that means you will occasionally be wrong. And although it is okay to be wrong, it is not okay to stay wrong.

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.

I will never be in the stock market. It's just gambling. I'm a gambler, but I'll gamble on the practicality of things.

What about stocks? You got to buy them. What if they break? You have to buy the dips.

I once invested in a risky business. Quite a few people warned me not to do so, but I still went ahead and invested the money.

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

The stock market is a giant distraction from the business of investing.

More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing.

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

As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him.

Stock market goes up or down, and you can't adjust your portfolio based on the whims of the market, so you have to have a strategy in a position and stay true to that strategy and not pay attention to noise that could surround any particular investment.

The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient.

A hyperactive stock market is the pickpocket of enterprise.

If you can't find any companies that you think are attractive, put your money in the bank until you discover some.

I got an E-Trade account. Turns out I can turn $1,000 into $420 in less than a week. Sure, I had to pay some fees.

Stocks are at an all-time high today. I don't have any money in the stock market. I don't have the stomach for the ups and downs. So about 20 years ago I put all of my money and liquid assets into videotape rewind machines.

The intelligent investor should recognize that market panics can create great prices for good companies and good prices for great companies.

You can find good reasons to scuttle your equities in every morning paper and on every broadcast of the nightly news.

If you expect to continue to purchase stocks throughout your life, you should welcome price declines as a way to add stocks more cheaply to your portfolio.

Never buy a stock immediately after a substantial rise or sell one immediately after a substantial drop.