Thursday, May 21, 2009

Interesting Investment quotes

- Be greedy when others are fearful and be fearful, when others are greedy.

- Four most dangerous words in investing- “It is different this time”

- Great (Idea+Manager+Price)= Great investment results.

- True investors realize that ‘get rich quick’ usually means ‘get poor quicker’

- Savings will not make you rich, only canny investments do that.

- Wealth creation is the art of buying a rupee for 40 paise.

- Own not the most, but the best.

- Investing without research is like playing pocker without looking at the cards.

- It is optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer.

- The definition of a great company is one that will remain great for many, many years.

- Focus on return on equity, not on earning per share.

- Business growth per se tells little about value.

- The secret of long-term investment success is benign neglect. Don’t try too hard. Much success can be attributed in inactivity.

- Value of analysis diminishes, as element of chance increases.

- The time to get interested in a stock is when no one else is.

- An investor’s worst enemy is not the stock market but his own emotions.

- There is no formula to figure out the intrinsic value of a stock. You have to know the business.

- Temperament costs investors more than ignorance.

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