Top 100 Investing Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.”

— Benjamin Graham

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2. “We don’t have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.”

— Warren Buffett

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3. “The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.”

— Stephen R. Covey

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4. “The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.”

— Warren Buffett

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5. “Investing is simple, but not easy.”

— Warren Buffett

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6. “The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting.”

— Charlie Munger

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7. “The greatest Enemies of the Equity investor are Expenses and Emotions.”

— Warren Buffett

8. “Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you’ve got talents, no one can take them from you.”

— Warren Buffett

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9. “Games are won by players who focus on the playing field – not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.”

— Warren Buffett

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10. “Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.”

— Randy Pausch

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11. “Investing is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.”

— Benjamin Graham

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12. “Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless.”

— Warren Buffett

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13. “Investing isn’t about beating others at their game. It’s about controlling yourself at your own game.”

— Benjamin Graham

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14. “Building your own business is the best way to become rich. Then you can begin investing in other assets.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

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15. “The intelligent investor should recognize that market panics can create great prices for good companies and good prices for great companies.”

— Benjamin Graham

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16. “Investing requires qualities of temperament way more than it requires qualities of intellect.”

— Warren Buffett

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17. “I’m not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making – just the facts.”

— Bill Ackman

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18. “You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.”

— Reid Hoffman

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19. “People calculate too much and think too little.”

— Charlie Munger

20. “It is more important to say “no” to an opportunity, than to say “yes”.”

— Warren Buffett

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21. “People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers.”

— Benjamin Graham

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22. “It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.”

— John Maynard Keynes

23. “Take a simple idea and take it seriously.”

— Charlie Munger

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24. “An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.”

— Warren Buffett

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25. “You don’t need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.”

— Warren Buffett

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26. “The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.”

— Benjamin Graham

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27. “Mr. Market is kind of a drunken psycho. Some days he gets very enthused, some days he gets very depressed. And when he gets really enthused, you sell to him, and when he gets depressed, you buy from him. There’s no moral taint attached to that.”

— Warren Buffett

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28. “A prudent speculator never argues with the tape. Markets are never wrong, opinions often are.”

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

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29. “Never try to sell at the top. It isn’t wise. Sell after a reaction if there is no rally.”

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

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30. “Know what you own, and know why you own it.”

— Peter Lynch

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31. “Invest in what you know.”

— Peter Lynch

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32. “To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and be humble.”

— Ray Dalio

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33. “It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.”

— Warren Buffett

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34. “Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future.”

— Warren Buffett

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35. “It is foolhardy to make a second trade, if your first trade shows you a loss. Never average losses. Let this thought be written indelibly upon your mind.”

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

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36. “Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.”

— John Templeton

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37. “An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.”

— Peter Lynch

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38. “If you buy something because it’s undervalued, then you have to think about selling it when it approaches your calculation of its intrinsic value. That’s hard. But if you buy a few great companies, then you can sit on your ass. That’s a good thing.”

— Charlie Munger

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39. “Nobody can predict interest rates, the future direction of the economy or the stock market. Dismiss all such forecasts and concentrate on what’s actually happening to the companies in which you’ve invested.”

— Peter Lynch

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40. “Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual’s cash flow and wealth.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

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41. “By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.”

— Warren Buffett

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42. “Time is your friend, impulse is your enemy. Take advantage of compound interest and don’t be captivated by the siren song of the market.”

— Warren Buffett

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43. “Investment must be rational; if you can’t understand it, don’t do it.”

— Warren Buffett

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44. “The investor’s chief problem – and even his worst enemy – is likely to be himself.”

— Benjamin Graham

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45. “Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.”

— Peter Lynch

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46. “Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.”

— Warren Buffett

47. “Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise.”

— Warren Buffett

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48. “You don’t have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long time.”

— Charlie Munger

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49. “Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process.”

— Benjamin Graham

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50. “Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein