Top 100 Investing Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Investing is forgoing consumption now in order to have the ability to consume more at a later date.”

— Warren Buffett

52. “A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors. My mentor, Ben Graham, took this position many years ago, and everything I have seen since convinces me of its truth.”

— Warren Buffett

53. “Losing some money is an inevitable part of investing, and there’s nothing you can do to prevent it. But to be an intelligent investor, you must take responsibility for ensuring that you never lose most or all of your money.”

— Benjamin Graham

54. “Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”

— John Maynard Keynes

55. “The best way to measure your investing success is not by whether you’re beating the market but by whether you’ve put in place a financial plan and a behavioral discipline that are likely to get you where you want to go.”

— Benjamin Graham

56. “Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble.”

— Warren Buffett

57. “In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.”

— Benjamin Graham

58. “Experience teaches that the time to buy stocks is when their price is unduly depressed by temporary adversity. In other words, they should be bought on a bargain basis or not at all.”

— Benjamin Graham

59. “Investing in tomorrow’s technology today is more critical than ever...”

— Bill Gates

60. “If at first you do succeed, quit trying in investing.”

— Warren Buffett

61. “High valuations entail high risks.”

— Benjamin Graham

62. “Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.”

— John D. Rockefeller

63. “I’ve not found ! one single mutual fund, one single real estate investment, any gold, silver or anything else that has given me higher returns than: me investing in myself.”

— Patrick Bet-David

64. “The stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing.”

— John C. Bogle

65. “It’s nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don’t want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it’s a little like saving sex for your old age.”

— Warren Buffett

66. “People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise they’ll stop investing.”

— Steve Jobs

67. “I’m investing in myself, I’m investing in others and I’m investing in my cause. I know if I persist it will pay back in dividends and it always does.”

— Simon Sinek

68. “Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.”

— Warren Buffett

69. “Investing in women is not only the right thing to do, but also the smart thing to do.”

— Hillary Clinton

70. “Many stock options in the corporate world have worked in exactly that fashion: they have gained in value simply because management retained earnings, not because it did well with the capital in its hands.”

— Warren Buffett

71. “If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any practical result whatsoever, you’ve beaten them.”

— George Orwell

72. “I take the market-efficiency hypothesis to be the simple statement that security prices fully reflect all available information.”

— Eugene Fama

73. “We do not view the company itself as the ultimate owner of our business assets but instead view the company as a conduit through which our shareholders own assets.”

— Warren Buffett

74. “Self-importance requires spending most of one’s life offended by something or someone.”

— Carlos Castaneda

75. “When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.”

— Warren Buffett

76. “After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.”

— Calvin Coolidge

77. “Always invest for the long term.”

— Warren Buffett

78. “A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.”

— Charlie Munger

79. “Great investing requires a lot of delayed gratification.”

— Charlie Munger

80. “Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.”

— Warren Buffett

81. “If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.”

— Warren Buffett

82. “Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.”

— Charlie Munger

83. “Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget Rule No. 1.”

— Warren Buffett

84. “Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.”

— Charlie Munger

85. “The wise ones bet heavily when the world offers them that opportunity. They bet big when they have the odds. And the rest of the time, they don’t. It’s just that simple.”

— Charlie Munger

86. “The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.”

— Warren Buffett

87. “It takes character to sit there with all that cash and do nothing. I didn’t get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities.”

— Charlie Munger

88. “The difference between a good business and a bad business is that good businesses throw up one easy decision after another. The bad businesses throw up painful decisions time after time.”

— Charlie Munger

89. “We have three baskets for investing: yes, no and too tough to understand. ”

— Charlie Munger

90. “What you have to learn is to fold early when the odds are against you, or if you have a big edge, back it heavily because you don’t get a big edge often. Opportunity comes, but it doesn’t come often, so seize it when it does come.”

— Charlie Munger

91. “Almost all good businesses engage in ‘pain today, gain tomorrow’ activities.”

— Charlie Munger

92. “Never depend on a single income. Make investments to create a second source.”

— Warren Buffett

93. “Keep all your eggs in one basket, but watch that basket closely.”

— Warren Buffett

94. “Recognize reality even when you don’t like it – especially when you don’t like it.”

— Charlie Munger

95. “If you aren't thinking about owning a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes.”

— Warren Buffett

96. “Spend each day getting a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. But you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts. Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day. At the end of the day – if you live long enough – most people get what they deserve.”

— Charlie Munger

97. “Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill. ”

— Warren Buffett

98. “It's not given to human beings to have such talent that they can just know everything about everything all the time. But it is given to human beings who work hard at it – who look and sift the world for a mispriced bet – that they can occasionally find one.”

— Charlie Munger

99. “Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.”

— Charlie Munger

100. “All intelligent investing is value investing – acquiring more than you are paying for. You must value the business in order to value the stock.”

— Charlie Munger