Investing Strategy Quotes

Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.

To us, investing is the equivalent of going out and betting against the pari-mutuel system. We look for a horse with one chance in two of winning, and that pays three to one. In other words, we're looking for a mispriced gamble. That's what investing is, and you have to know enough to know whether the gamble is mispriced.

In the long run, investing is not about markets at all. Investing is about enjoying the returns earned by businesses.

Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes.

Many investors make the mistake of buying high and selling low while the exact opposite is the right strategy.

Most investors would be better off in an index fund.

I think the value of venues like CNBC is that they give investors an opportunity to reevaluate the situation minute by minute, but maybe we don't need to follow the market so closely.

There is something in people; you might even call it a little bit of a gambling instinct… I tell people investing should be dull. It shouldn't be exciting. Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

It's difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and it's basically driven by algorithms talking to algorithms. There's no real rhyme or reason for that. So it's difficult. We just try to preach long-term investing and staying the course.

We don't really look at the stock, you know? Because for us, it's about the long term. And so we're very much focused on long-term shareholder value but not the short-term kind of stuff.

Most successful investors, in fact, do nothing most of the time.

Before this century is over, the Dow Jones Industrial Average will probably be over one million versus around 10,000 now. So for the long-term, the outlook is tremendously bullish if you buy stocks blindly to keep for a century.

Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future.

Once you meet an entrepreneur like Jack Ma, you just want to make sure you bet on him. It's not a hard decision.

A constant in my approach to investing: You should think politically but unconventionally.

Warren Buffett is fond of saying that any player unaware of the fool in the market probably is the fool in the market.

I like to invest in people that I like to hang with.

Buy when most people, including experts, are pessimistic, and sell when they are actively optimistic.

I think the worst mistake you can make in stocks is to buy or sell based on current headlines.

The most important thing is to stay the course - not to get shaken out of the market during a difficult time.

When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: 'we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year.

The true investor welcomes volatility ... a wildly fluctuating market means that irrationally low prices will periodically be attached to solid businesses.

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

The game of investing is a process of discovering who you are, what you're interested in, what you're good at, what you love to do, then magnifying that until you gain a sizable edge over all the other people.

If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It's the worst possible thing you can do, because people are so sensitive to short-term losses. If you count your money every day, you'll be miserable.