Quotes about Investor

Investor confidence in Adani is fairly high, and most of our investors are long-term investors. Votes: 3

At age 19, I read a book [The Intelligent Investor] and what I'm doing today, at age 76, is running things through the same thought process I learned from the book I read at 19. Votes: 3

Investor demand for distressed property has been healthy, as rents rise to levels that can cover investors' costs while they wait for properties to appreciate. Giving investors a small tax break should further juice up demand, supporting prices for distressed homes and the market in general. Votes: 3

We're getting hurt, but I'm a long-term investor. Votes: 2

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth. Votes: 2

I am not criticizing investing in the stock market; I am an investor. Votes: 2

The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing. Votes: 2

An investor doesn't have a prayer of picking a manager that can deliver true alpha. Votes: 2

The investor knows quite well that we don't have anymore the widespread terrorism here in Peru. Votes: 2

An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job. Votes: 2

I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope. Votes: 2

I'm a pretty disciplined investor and pretty disciplined buyer. I do my due diligence. I do my homework. I don't waste money. Votes: 2

I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring. Votes: 2

What is the most common investor mistake? Trading - getting in and getting out at all the wrong times, for all the wrong reasons. Votes: 2

I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many serious practitioners. Votes: 2

One thing on psychology, which we've always known, is that every investor says they're long-term - and they are until the market takes a hit. Votes: 2

If you're a retail investor, you have set aside some of your hard-earned money for investment or to create a nest egg, for your kids or family. Votes: 2

When you're an investor, you can look at the quantitative and qualitative elements of an investment, but there's a third aspect: What you feel in your gut. Votes: 2

An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made. Votes: 2

I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance. Votes: 2

An entrepreneur needs to know what they need, period. Then they need to find an investor who can build off whatever their weaknesses are - whether that's through money, strategic partnerships or knowledge. Votes: 2

I'm an investor in MakerBot, which is a good example of the 'thingiverse'. The idea of applying collaboration and rapid iteration to things that we interact with and hold in our hands every day is super revolutionary. Votes: 2

Nebraska was home to indigenous peoples for centuries. It became a state in 1867, and has produced an important literary figure, Willa Cather, as well as an investor said to be the world's second richest man, Warren Buffett. Votes: 2

In 2008, people who invested in hedge funds needed capital badly, but many of the funds would not return their money. However, I gave money back to any investor who requested it. It was the bottom of the market and a pretty tough time. Votes: 2

When I was planning LearnVest, everyone told me I had to talk to Ann Kaplan, one of the first female partners at Goldman Sachs. Within five minutes of our meeting, she totally got the idea - and by the time I left, she was a seed investor. Votes: 2

The moment a large investor doesn't believe a government will pay back its debt when it says it will, a crisis of confidence could develop. Investors have scant patience for the years of good governance - politically fraught fiscal restructuring, austerity and debt rescheduling - it takes to defuse a sovereign-debt crisis. Votes: 2

I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying. Votes: 2

In the 40 years I've been working as an economist and investor, I have never seen such a disconnect between the asset market and the economic reality... Asset markets are in the sky, and the economy of the ordinary people is in the dumps, where their real incomes adjusted for inflation are going down and asset markets are going up. Votes: 2

In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well. It seems, perhaps, that the longer and longer you keep at it in this business the more and more time you have to expose your Achilles heel - wherever and whatever that might be. Votes: 2

I'm primarily just an investor. Votes: 0

The speculator is not an investor. Votes: 0

The best investor is your customer. Votes: 0

The natural-born investor is a myth. Votes: 0

Change is the investor's only certainty. Votes: 0

It's the investor who is risky, not the investment. Votes: 0

Investment performance doesn't determine real-life returns; investor behavior does. Votes: 0

The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. Votes: 0

Wealth is not determined by investment performance, but by investor behavior. Votes: 0

The greatest Enemies of the Equity investor are Expenses and Emotions. Votes: 0

Most investors say "Don't take risks." The rich investor takes risks. Votes: 0

There are no safeguards that can protect the emotional investor from himself. Votes: 0

Guys like me on the investor side are a dime a dozen. Votes: 0

The single greatest edge an investor can have is a long-term orientation. Votes: 0

The ability to say no is a tremendous advantage for an investor. Votes: 0

For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry. Votes: 0

For the investor who knows what he is doing, volatility creates opportunity. Votes: 0

Anyone with a pension or retirement is an investor in the stock market. Votes: 0

Independent thinking is not just helpful in becoming a successful investor, it's required. Votes: 0

To be an investor you must be a believer in a better tomorrow. Votes: 0

I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia. Votes: 0

A good investor in this new world knows to always expect the unexpected. Votes: 0

As an investor I cannot tell that. We cannot predict the success or failure. Votes: 0

It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity. Votes: 0

The sillier the market's behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor. Votes: 0

One must give up the fantasy of a perspicacious gunslinger/investor outwitting the market. Votes: 0

The successful investor is usually an individual who is inherently interested in business problems. Votes: 0

The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices. Votes: 0

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists. Votes: 0

If your investments are limited to this earth, you are the world's worst investor. Votes: 0

South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa. Votes: 0

An investor calculates what a stock is worth, based on the value of its businesses. Votes: 0

If you're going to invest in an Internet stock, you must be a long-term investor. Votes: 0

You don't need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one. Votes: 0

To be a value investor, you have to be willing [and able] to suffer pain. Votes: 0

The investor's chief problem - and even his worst enemy - is likely to be himself. Votes: 0

Understanding how to be a good investor makes you a better business manager and vice versa. Votes: 0

I'm a passive investor. There are people who are very aggressive; they try to buy companies. Votes: 0

The intelligent investor is likely to need considerable will power to keep from following the crowd. Votes: 0

Nothing turns off an investor more than when an entrepreneur comes in with a ridiculous valuation. Votes: 0

As an investor my job is to figure out what will happen rather than what should happen. Votes: 0

Both from the standpoint of stocks and bonds, an investor wants to go where the growth is. Votes: 0

For investor confidence, it is important that there is certainty about the future of Ireland in E.U. Votes: 0

I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future. Votes: 0

An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it. Votes: 0

An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes. Votes: 0

A defensive investor can always prosper by looking patiently and calmly through the wreckage of a bear market. Votes: 0

All an investor can do is follow a consistently disciplined and rigorous approach; over time the returns will come Votes: 0

The historical data support one conclusion with unusual force: To invest with success, you must be a long-term investor. Votes: 0

An intelligent investor gets satisfaction from the thought that his operations are exactly opposite to those of the crowd. Votes: 0

Being a successful investor & winning in the stock market is a matter of skill & discipline and not luck alone Votes: 0

It is only by understanding the emotion of others that an investor has a chance to produce superior results. Votes: 0

A value strategy is of little use to the impatient investor since it usually takes time to pay off. Votes: 0

I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am no investor. Votes: 0

I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor. Votes: 0

If you are going to be a great investor, you have to fit the style to who you are. Votes: 0

In order to be a really good investor, you need to be a little bit of a philosopher as well. Votes: 0

The tax-exempt privilege is a feature always reflected in the market price of [municipal] bonds. The investor pays for it. Votes: 0

As an investor in small companies, I don't care how rich Microsoft is. I care about what my opportunities are. Votes: 0

I am a huge, huge, huge fan of index funds. They are the investor's best friend and Wall Street's worst nightmare. Votes: 0

Your goal, as a creative investor, is to launch your ship into financial orbit ... and then put it on automatic pilot. Votes: 0

I figured maybe I had some talent as an investor… since it seemed like I was only a half-assed entrepreneur. Votes: 0

Long-term investing has gotten so popular, it's easier to admit you're a crack addict than to admit you're a short-term investor. Votes: 0

The intelligent investor should recognize that market panics can create great prices for good companies and good prices for great companies. Votes: 0

Graham's wonderful sentence as, an investor needs only two things: cash and courage. Having only one of them is not enough. Votes: 0

The true investor welcomes volatility ... a wildly fluctuating market means that irrationally low prices will periodically be attached to solid businesses. Votes: 0

When you're facing an investor or the institutions or a distributor, it's you yourself with your own ideas and your own project. Votes: 0

Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment. Votes: 0

Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them complex or scary is non-optimal. Votes: 0

The worst thing that can happen to an investor is to make money on his first trade; he thinks investing is easy Votes: 0

The late 90s almost forced me to identify myself as a value investor, because I thought what everybody else was doing was insane. Votes: 0

To obtain financial freedom, one must be either a business owner, an investor, or both, generating passive income, particularly on a monthly basis. Votes: 0

The intelligent investor gets interested in big growth stocks not when they are at their most popular - but when something goes wrong. Votes: 0

The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests. Votes: 0

As an investor-entrepreneur, I've always tried to be contrarian, to go against the crowd, to identify opportunities in places where people are not looking. Votes: 0

We next consider the rule that the investor does or should consider expected return a desirable thing and variance of return an undesirable thing. Votes: 0

Damn inflation, full speed ahead,' Greenspan has said in both action and word. I think an investor should believe him and invest accordingly. Votes: 0

As an investor with small capital, one should prefer businesses that have high returns on capital and that require little incremental investment to grow. Votes: 0

Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' -- to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor. Votes: 0

It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you're doing is putting up a lump-sump payment for a future cash flow. Votes: 0

You have to make the shift from being a consumer in the economy to becoming an owner-and you do it by becoming an investor. Votes: 0

The normal expectancy of the average investor - for example, the pension funds of AT&T or IBM - is 6% for a long time. Votes: 0

Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' - to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor. Votes: 0

The genuine investor in common stocks does not need a great equipment of brain and knowledge, but he does need some unusual qualities of character Votes: 0

If the investor is uneducated, anything he or she invests in will be risky. So it's not the investment that is risky. It's the investor. Votes: 0

The intelligent investor shouldn't ignore Mr. Market entirely. Instead, you should do business with him- but only to the extent that it serves your interests. Votes: 0

... a speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware. Votes: 0

If there's any relevant influence we may have with an investor, with a studio, with a director, with an actor, I think we have to fight. Votes: 0

Unless an investor has access to 'incredibly high-qualified professionals,' they should be 100 percent passive - that includes almost all individual investors and most institutional investors. Votes: 0

At SGI board meetings... Jim Clark's face would get red and he'd start shouting that an investor and board member had cheated him and his engineers. Votes: 0

Traditionally the investor has been the man with patience and the courage of his convictions who would buy when the harried or disheartened speculator was selling. Votes: 0

I can't figure the stock market out. I think it's wacky. I have done well with a long-term strategy and will continue being a long-term investor. Votes: 0

It was always a challenge for me to prove that a Russian financial investor can be as successful in the West as back at home in Russia. Votes: 0

When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in short, being fooled by randomness. Votes: 0

An investor will succeed by coupling good business judgment with an ability to insulate his thoughts and behavior from the super-contagious emotions that swirl about the marketplace. Votes: 0

If you have more than 120 or 130 I.Q. points, you can afford to give the rest away. You don't need extraordinary intelligence to succeed as an investor. Votes: 0

While it might seem that anyone can be a value investor, the essential characteristics of this type of investor-patience, discipline, and risk aversion-may well be genetically determined. Votes: 0

I've been lucky enough to be involved in a number of great startups, including eBay and Wikia as an entrepreneur and LinkedIn and Paypal as an investor. Votes: 0

One of the most important things a real investor needs to say is this; "I want my money back and I also want to keep my investments. Votes: 0

To be a successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game. Votes: 0

The investor who permits himself to be stampeded or unduly worried by unjustified market declines in his holdings is perversely transforming his basic advantage into a basic disadvantage. Votes: 0

To enjoy a reasonable chance for continued better than average results, the investor must follow policies which are (1) inherently sound and promising, and (2) not popular on Wall Street. Votes: 0

The true investor... will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operation results of his companies. Votes: 0

An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business. Votes: 0

If you are an investor who's retired and hopes to live off the income that your portfolio is generating, then we would focus just on the dividend yield. Votes: 0

The U.S. is the biggest investor in research and development in the world. It has the best universities. Keeping them supplied with the best talent is essential. Votes: 0

If something great comes off with the potential TV series, I will go straight to an investor this time and put my money in whatever they invest in. Votes: 0

Just as a fisherman must watch the ebb and flow of the tides, an investor and businessperson must be keenly aware of the subtle shifts in cash flow. Votes: 0

Consumer groups fought hard to provide investor protections for special entities such as pension funds, schools, and municipalities who purchase swaps. No comparable protection exists in the futures market. Votes: 0

I had an investor who said to me he'd keep his money with me as long as I didn't have a girlfriend and I didn't start combing my hair. Votes: 0

An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money. Votes: 0

Consumer groups fought hard to provide investor protections for 'special entities' such as pension funds, schools, and municipalities who purchase swaps. No comparable protection exists in the futures market. Votes: 0

You want less of the annoying nonsense that interferes with your portfolios and more of the significant data that allow you to become a less distracted, more purposeful investor. Votes: 0

The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd. Votes: 0

We can extrapolate from the study that for the long term individual investor who maintains a consistent asset allocation and leans toward index funds, asset allocation determines about 100% of performance. Votes: 0

And we invested three hundred thousand dollars, became the lead investor and I became Chairman of the Board of Scientific Data Systems, as I was at Intel for a while. Votes: 0

The courage to press on regardless--regardless of whether we face calm seas or rough seas, and especially when the market storms howl around us--is the quintessential attribute of the successful investor. Votes: 0

My advice to this investor is the same that I give to the young investors in my classes Devote the same earnest attention to investing that $50,000 as you devoted to earning it. Votes: 0

We are each other's seventh largest trading partner, we are the fifth largest investor there and likewise, we have a lot of exchanges between political leaders, businessmen, tourists and school children too. Votes: 0

We are each other's seventh largest trading partner, we are the fifth largest investor there and likewise, we have a lot of exchanges between political leaders, businessmen, tourists and school children too. Votes: 0

Famed value investor Guy Spier has managed to write what is both a gripping memoir and a fascinating study of what it takes to succeed in investing and life. A must read! Votes: 0

The defensive (or passive) investor will place chief emphasis on the avoidance of serious mistakes or losses. His second aim will be freedom from effort, annoyance, and the need for making frequent decisions. Votes: 0

The institutional investor remains the bigger influence on individual trades simply because the institutional investor has more money to support the order and that will have more of an impact on the stock. Votes: 0

SUPPOSE that an investor you admire and trust comes to you with an investment idea. This is a good one, he says enthusiastically. I'm in it, and I think you should be, too. Votes: 0

I would suggest to my honourable Friend that the foreign investor is at least as discouraged by high national debt for that, as all example shows, is the surest precursor of high taxation. Votes: 0

You can invest with less risk and make more money in the stock market. All you have to do is not be an average investor. Intelligence is the ability to make finer distinctions. Votes: 0

Only in the exceptional case, where the integrity and competence of the advisers have been thoroughly demonstrated, should the investor act upon the advice of others without understanding and approving the decision made. Votes: 0

Price fluctuations have only one significant meaning for the true investor. They provide him with an opportunity to buy wisely when prices fall sharply and to sell wisely when they advance a great deal. Votes: 0

The investor should be aware that even though safety of its principal and interest may be unquestioned, a long term bond could vary widely in market price in response to changes in interest rates. Votes: 0

A good portfolio is more than a long list of good stocks and bonds. It is a balanced whole, providing the investor with protections and opportunities with respect to a wide range of contingencies. Votes: 0

They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations of inflation. So if the average investor believes that there is inflation coming, they'll move that rate up. Votes: 0

When I read in Fortune magazine that Warren Buffet, the billionaire investor and one of the world's richest men, was investing in a direct sales (network marketing) company, I decided I was missing something. Votes: 0

I am truly an angel investor and I'am not a passive investor.As a passive investor, I am awful because I can not put funding into a company and leave it to other people. Votes: 0

The determining trait of the enterprising (or active, or aggressive) investor is his willingness to devote time and care to the selection of securities that are both sound and more attractive than the average. Votes: 0

My advice to the average investor in 1988 is to be patient and think long-term. It will take 18 months for confidence to get better and, in the meantime, this is absolutely no place for short-term money. Votes: 0

It is better to be early than too late in recognizing the passing of one era, the waning of old investment favorites and the advent of a new era affording new opportunities for the investor. Votes: 0

If General Motors is worth $60 a share to an investor it must be because the full common-stock ownership of this gigantic enterprise as a whole is worth 43 million (shares) times $60, or no less than $2,600 million. Votes: 0