Stock Market Investing
My Favourite Investment Quotes from Top 10 Stock Market Investors
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Introduction — Why these quotes matter
If you are into the stock market, learning from experienced investors can be an excellent investment in your education. Like in any field, insights from leaders in the stock market can save us time. In addition, these witty and astonishing ideas can broaden our perspectives.
Quotes are valuable because they are written in concise words articulating wisdom and inspiring readers to think or take action. The fascinating common denominator in these quotes is that they all reflect reality differently by presenting wise words with artistic expressions. Therefore, these ideas and principles are quotable.
I am inspired to write this piece after receiving encouraging feedback from my readers about my recent articles on Warren Buffet and Ray Dalio. Several subscribed readers wanted to read more similar stories as they found them valuable.
Honoring their feedback, I compiled ten insightful, educative, and inspiring quotes which resonated with me. They are from the best of the top investors I reviewed during my investment education journey. Learning in any field is a constant process. It never ends.
From their insightful books, I collected hundreds of quotes from these famous investors and thought leaders. However, I want to keep this article short in bite-size format to give you a quick taste. If these investors resonate with you, you can find many more published quotes from them online.
To make this article more useful, I also share my understanding and interpretation of the quotes from my review of their books or other content. You might interpret them differently, and I’d love to obtain your perspectives. These people are not only thought leaders but also practitioners in stock market investing. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
Timeless Investment Advice from Top 10 Stock Market Investors
1 — Benjamin Graham
“The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.”
The author of the book The Intelligent Investor, Benjamin Graham, provided remarkable insights to investors. This book created a fundamental understanding of investing for me. Mr. Graham (rest in peace) was one of the mentors of Warren Buffet.
He inspired many great investors like Mr. Buffet, who still uses Mr. Graham’s famous “cigar butts” analogy when comparing good and bad stocks.
2 — Warren Buffett
“Never invest in a business you cannot understand.”
Understanding the business and knowing the background of the companies is essential in the stock market. Warren Buffet only selects companies he knows well. Therefore, he usually emphasizes not investing in hyped stocks.
I shared several quotes from Warren Buffet in a recent article.
3 — John Templeton
“If you earn a dollar and spend a dollar ten, you’ll be a failure. But if you earn a dollar and spend ninety cents, you’re on the road to success.”
This investment principle looks simple, yet it is profound for investors. Mr Templeton, as a realist, is not asking too much from investors. He only recommends a 10% investment. Of course, more might be better for some investors. However, balance in life is essential too. We earn money for well-being, not for the sake of making it or being famous.
I enjoyed the inspiring book by Sir Templeton titled How to Make Money in Stocks: Rules for Investment Success. The book reflects his experience over the past half-century as an investment counselor.
4 — George Soros
“It is much easier to put existing resources to better use than to develop resources where they do not exist.”
From my experience, this idea is a pragmatic approach to any business. Re-usability is a proven success factor in any business or industry. In addition, my favorite timeless insight from Mr. Soros is “I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong.”
I treasured reading and listening to The Alchemy of Finance by Mr. Soros. The Wall Street Journal praised the book as “An extraordinary . . . inside look into the decision-making process of the most successful money manager of our time. Fantastic.”
5 — Bill Gross
“My clients don’t pay me to feel sorry; they pay me to bring them money. I am tough, but I have a soft side.”
I liked this realistic approach, also showing a personal balance depicting emotional maturity.
The investment book by Mr. Gross was one of the first books I read about investing. It is titled Everything You’ve Heard About Investing Is Wrong!: How to Profit in the Coming Post-Bull Markets. It is an informative and humorous book.
6 — Michael Steinhardt
“Always trust your intuition, which resembles a hidden supercomputer in the mind. It can help you do the right thing at the right time if you give it a chance.”
While many investors use logic and data, which are essential to make solid decisions, we also need to use intuition coming from our subconscious, which is the more significant part of the cognitive iceberg.
My favorite book by Mr. Steinhardt is Blue, Green, and Gold. This insightful book provides valuable advice on investing, markets, investor behaviors, and retirement. In addition, he is an excellent storyteller, painting verbal pictures to help consumers and investors.
7 — John Bogle
“Where returns are concerned, time is your friend. But where costs are concerned, time is your enemy.”
Like anything in life, timing is everything in investment. Related to this point, Mr. Bogle also mentioned that “Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.” John Bogle is the founder of the Vanguard Mutual Fund Group and the creator of the first index mutual fund.
My favorite book by Mr. Bogle was Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life. However, I also enjoyed his short book titled The Little Book of Common-Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns.
8 — Peter Lynch
“I think the secret is if you have a lot of stocks, some will do mediocre, some will do okay, and if one of two of them go up big time, you produce a fabulous result. And I think that’s the promise to some people.”
This is a piece of solid advice on diversifying. However, a more profound, inspiring, and optimistic perspective from Mr. Lynch is, “Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you could do it.”
Reflecting on a fundamental understanding of the stock market, I admire this perspective of Mr. Lynch “Although it’s easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket… it’s part-ownership of a business.”
I enjoyed reading Mr. Lynch’s book titled One Up On Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market in the early 2000s.
9 — Carl Icahn
“Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. Me, I make money studying natural stupidity.
As a technology focusing on artificial intelligence, this wise quote from Mr. Icahn was cemented in my memories. Making money from psychological motives and the emotional immaturity of people is a fundamental insight for investing in the stock market. Moreover, it is an excellent picture of the global investors’ landscape.
Known as an activist, Mr. Icahn was in the top 400 wealthiest investors reported by Forbes. You can read his famous and articulate open letters to many stockholders and the board of directors on his website.
10 — Philip Fisher
“I have already made up my mind, don’t confuse me with facts.”
I loved the focus, determination, and self-confidence in this quote. What I like most from Mr. Fisher is the advice to entrepreneurs in the following insightful quote. “Never promote someone who hasn’t made some bad mistakes because if you do, you are promoting someone who has never done anything.”
His book titled Paths to Wealth Through Common Stocks gives valuable advice to self-managed fund investors.
Conclusions
Learning from leaders with proven experience can save us significant time. In my opinion, every authentic leader must have failed at least once in their lifetime, as indicated by Mr. Fisher.
Quotes are easier to understand and keep in memory. We remember them because they reflect reality using metaphors, analogies, and expressive words.
Learning from insights and successful people’s failures, especially those who recovered from them, can be invaluable.
Thank you for reading my research and perspectives.
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