Stock Market Investing Quotes

Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.

After a lifetime of picking stocks, I have to admit that Bogle's arguments in favor of the index fund have me thinking of joining him rather than trying to beat him. Bogle's wisdom and common sense are indispensable... for anyone trying to figure out how to invest in this crazy stock market.

Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate.

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

The American economy is going to do fine. But it won't do fine every year and every week and every month. I mean, if you don't believe that, forget about buying stocks anyway... It's a positive-sum game, long term. And the only way an investor can get killed is by high fees or by trying to outsmart the market.

Experience teaches that the time to buy stocks is when their price is unduly depressed by temporary adversity. In other words, they should be bought on a bargain basis or not at all.

Under Reagan came the idea of putting your pension plan in the stock market, which wasn't a guaranteed pension.

If you're indexing to the S&P 500, you're buying the most expensive names in the market.

Predictions are predictions. If you could predict the stock market, you would be super rich. But I have to race the race. It doesn't matter what I've done over the last few years. I have to race at the Olympics.

If you have the stomach for stocks, but neither the time nor the inclination to do the homework, invest in equity mutual funds.