Marc Faber Quotes

The last thing you want to do, unless it's a very unusual situation, is to invest money.

Well, there's always risk in long-term investment.

Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.

I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.

I'm a very passive investor.

I have no complaints about losing money I put in high-risk investments. I did some of that when I had real money; my informed choice, my measured gamble.

I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

I don't think you should put all your money in one place. It must be invested in different investments.

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

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).

Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting.

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

I know where I'm putting my money.

I have plenty of investments that I wish I'd never made. But the model is to lose money on a lot of investments and then make 1,000X or 10,000X on an investment.

In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money.

In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.

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

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.

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.

Mutual funds dare to be average. In fact, they dare to be lousy. They have long since ceased striving for anything resembling perfection when it comes to managing your money.

The government can’t guarantee that you should earn profit from your investments.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate [on the Stock Market]: when he can't afford it, and when he can.