Quotes by Investors - Page 2

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.
Warren Buffett
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.
Warren Buffett
I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.
Warren Buffett
The four most expensive word in the English language are 'This time it's different.
John Templeton
I have already made up my mind, don't confuse me with facts.
Philip A. Fisher
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
Warren Buffett
When you know the destination, the path is easy.
Ratmir Timashev
The anti-resource curse initiative has stronger legs than most and that has made me very enthusiastic.
George Soros
I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.
Warren Buffett
There is large cap, mid cap, small cap. There is also a “BHANGAAR CAP”. More than 4000 out of 6000 companies fit in that category. They show up only in the good times. Be careful
Vijay Kedia
I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up and boy that help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.
Charlie Munger
Self-improvement comes mainly from trying to help others.
John Templeton
If everyone saw himself as a citizen of the world rather than of his town, city or country, the world would be a more peaceful, better place where success in all forms is abundant and available to all.
Jim Rogers
Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.
Ray Dalio
When kids come on the dance floor it’s time for elders to go to the bed.
Vijay Kedia
I pride myself in being a technology innovator, so our specialty at Veeam is our laser-focused commitment to R&D, but you cannot build solid solutions without knowing what the goals are for your customers.
Ratmir Timashev
Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.
Warren Buffett
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Charlie Munger
There are no good or bad stocks. The company is either good or bad. Stocks are just stocks.
Kenneth L. Fisher
When leaders reframe customers into guests, and results into experiences, profits escalate.
Eric Schiffer
If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.
Henry Kravis
There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.
Warren Buffett
Everyone has a worldview, and everyone is positive theirs is the correct one. I can tell you without a doubt your wrong.
Wesley Gray
If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.
Warren Buffett
As I like to put it, we have hit pay dirt. The effort to cure the resource curse is a good example of what private foundations working with NGOs can accomplish.
George Soros
Even a small amount of unplanned downtime can effect a company’s profitability and reputation.
Ratmir Timashev
Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.
Warren Buffett
If you keep trying to hit a four but you keep on getting only one run. Then chances are when you will hit a six you will get caught.
Vijay Kedia
Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob.
Jim Rogers
The Internet Is Like Alcohol in Some Sense. It accentuates.What You Would Do Any Way. If You Want To Be Loner, You Can Be More Alone and if You Want to Connect , It Makes Easier to Connect.
Esther Dyson
Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.
George Soros
I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection.
Warren Buffett
In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time -- none, zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads--and at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out.
Charles T. Munger
Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundred years. The world will continue changing.
Jim Rogers
Products produced cheaply create ugly work lives and ugly households and ugly communities. Profits produced quickly cannot purchase patience and care. Patience is beautiful. Restraint and care are beautiful. Peace is beautiful. A small, diversified organic farm is beautiful.
Woody Tasch
Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse their prospects have plummeted as families have broken into dependent fragments.
George Gilder
In embracing change entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.
George Gilder
Better to lose money in a good company rather than making money in a bad one.
Vijay Kedia
Rome was not built in a day, but Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed in a day.
Vijay Kedia
Entrepreneurship: you put one dumb foot in front of the other while the world throws bricks at your head.
Peter Thiel
Read not only between the lines, but also what is not written.
Vijay Kedia
Nutrition matters for everybody, but you can’t major in it at Harvard. Most top scientists go into other fields. Most of the big studies were done 30 or 40 years ago, and most are seriously flawed. The food pyramid that told us to eat low fat and enormous amounts of grains was probably more a product of lobbying by Big Food than real science; its chief impact has been to aggravate our obesity epidemic. There’s plenty more to learn: we know more about the physics of faraway stars than we know about human nutrition. It won’t be easy, but it’s not obviously impossible: exactly the kind of field that could yield secrets.
Peter Thiel
...not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.
Warren Buffett
No company has a culture, every company is a culture
Peter Thiel
I commissioned two political experts to advise me about what I could do to oppose the re-election of President Bush.
George Soros
I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
Charles Schwab