Hello and Welcome. This page is a collection of 13 quotes about Investing that I liked and saved from various books. I hope you will like these quotes too.
By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.
Investing Quotes from What I Learned About Investing from Darwin book by Pulak Prasad
- As permanent owners, we at Nalanda have no interest in a business owned or run by someone who defrauds customers, suppliers, employees, or shareholders. When we come across such a person, we don’t ask if the business is cheap enough for the risk to be mitigated; we don’t ask if we could persuade this individual to change; we don’t ask if their crimes are trivial enough to ignore. We simply walk away.
- Investing is a unique profession in which inactivity can be hugely rewarding. It has been so for us. We will continue to be lazy. Very lazy.
- We at Nalanda love stable, predictable, boring industries. Give us electric fans over electric vehicles, boilers over biotech, sanitaryware over semiconductors, and enzymes over e-commerce. We like industries in which the winners and losers have been largely sorted out and the rules of the game are apparent to everyone. For everything else, thanks, but no thanks.
- We want to be permanent owners. We don’t invest unless we think we can own a business forever. A bad business that is dirt cheap? Pass. A mediocre business at a low price? Thanks, but no thanks. A high-quality business at a fair price? Give me more so I can never let go.
Investing Quotes from How Not to Invest book by Barry Ritholtz
- The three most important words in investing are, “I don’t know.” Not saying those three words has cost investors billions.
- Investing is a massive problem-solving exercise. The best at it are intellectually flexible; they approach their craft as a discipline, and focus on process. They understand probability theory and view mistakes as learning opportunities. They use mental models and engage in second-order thinking; they use counterfactuals; they have good information hygiene. They possess a high level of self-awareness regarding their own psychological states. They know they have blind spots and are aware they don’t know what they don’t know.
- Investing is the art of using imperfect information to make probabilistic assessments about an inherently unknowable future.
Investing Quotes from Dividend Investing book by Jenny Harrington
- The beauty of investing is that it is an endless process of discovery. With each mistake made, with each value trap stepped on and even despite each mistake being unique in itself, learning continues and the future promises fewer such mistakes. With fewer mistakes come better returns – and thus, the beauty of compounding again reveals itself: not only do compounded returns generate long-term wealth, but compounded knowledge improves long-term returns!
- One of the most important yet difficult to overcome elements of successful investing is suppressing subjectivity and prioritizing objectivity.
Other Investing Quotes
- There is never a moment when you’re so right that you can bet every chip in front of you. The world isn’t that kind to anyone – not consistently, anyways. You have to give yourself room for error. You have to plan on your plan not going according to plan. – from The Psychology of Money book by Morgan Housel
- Investing is just like gambling. It’s all about the odds. Looking out for mispriced betting opportunities and betting heavily when the odds are overwhelmingly in your favor is the ticket to wealth. – from The Dhandho Investor book by Mohnish Pabrai
- When the neighbors tell me what to buy and then I wish I had taken their advice, it’s a sure sign that the market has reached a top and is due for a tumble. – from One Up on Wall Street book by Peter Lynch
- I want to invest in companies that control their own destiny, not in companies that have their destiny determined by forces beyond their control. – from The Education of a Value Investor book by Guy Spier