80 Best Quotes On Stock Market Investment And Financial Management (2024)

Recession 2020 is here due to Covid-19 virus. Here are some famous investment quotes by successful investors. Before you begin in this field, ask yourself, are you an entrepreneur, trader, investor or flipper? A flipper, also known as day trader is a gambler, a day trader is a trader who adheres to a trading style called day trading. This involves buying and subsequently selling financial instruments (e.g. stocks, options, gold, oil, commodities, futures, derivatives, currencies, forex, banking) within the same trading day, such that all positions will usually be closed before the market close of the trading day.

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When it comes to investing in the stock market, discipline is the key to success, be patient and look at the long term gains instead of short term gains. Remember, when you leave school, your banker does not ask you for your report card. Your banker does not come if you had good grades or bad grades. All bankers want to see is your financial statement, your financial statement is your report card when you leave school.

Rule number 1 is – Do not gamble in the stock market, invest! Remember, stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or the elections. When investing, invest for long term gain and not speculate for short term gains. Better to be safe than sorry. I truly believe you will find these famous investment quotes useful, especially in times when the stock market is in bear market mode for the coming global recession, possibly due to the massive property bubbles in China, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and most Asian countries. What to invest in this current recession? What else? The Stock Market of course.

You get recession, you have stock market declines. If you don’t understand that’s going to happen, then you’re not ready, you won’t do well in the markets. – Peter Lynch

The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient. – Warren Buffett

If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. – Norman Ralph Augustine

Investors should purchase stocks like they purchase groceries, not like they purchase perfume. – Ben Graham

Investment is most successful when it is most businesslike. – Ben Graham

In the short run, the market is a voting machine. But in the long run, it is a weighing machine. – Ben Graham

No price is too low for a bear or too high for a bull. – Unknown

We don’t have to be smarter than the rest, they have to be more disciplined than the rest. – Warren Buffett

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute. – William Feather

The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them. – Peter Lynch

Stock market bubbles don’t grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality is distorted by a misconception. – George Soros

Even the intelligent investor is likely to need considerable willpower to keep from following the crowd. – Benjamin Graham

Wall Street makes its money on activity, you make your money on inactivity. – Warren Buffett

The four most expensive words in the english language are, “This time it’s different.” – Sir John Templeton

Individual who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process. – Benjamin Graham

Value stocks are about as exciting as watching grass grow, but have you ever noticed just how much your grass grows in a week? – Christopher Browne

When purchasing depressed stock in troubled companies, seek out the ones with the superior financial positions and avoid the ones with loads of bank debt. – Peter Lynch

Learn everyday, but especially from the experiences of others. It’s cheaper! – John Bogle

An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets. – Peter Lynch

Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or the elections. – Warren Buffett

The markets generally are unpredictable, so that one has to have different scenarios. The idea that you can actually predict what’s going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market. – George Soros

Bottoms in the investment world don’t end with four-year lows, they end with 10 or 15-year lows. – Jim Rogers

Everyone has the power to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth grade math, you can do it. – Peter Lynch

Historically, there has been a bull market in the commodities every 20 or 30 years. – Jim Rogers

I think you have to learn that there’s a company behind every stock and there’s only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies. – Peter Lynch

Get inside information from the president and you will lose half of your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all your money. – Jim Rogers

I have found that when the market’s going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future, you will be happy. You won’t get there by reading. Now is the time to buy. – Peter Lynch

Index investing outperforms active management year after year. – Jim Rogers

The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you are not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible of company that can go bankrupt. – Jim Rogers

You get recession, you get stock market declines. If you don’t understand that’s going to happen, then you are not ready and you will not do well in the markets. – Peter Lynch

Tough times helped many commodities traders become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up. – Jim Rogers

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. – Rich Dad

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy. Profit from folly rather than participate in it. – Warren Buffett

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. – Henry Ford

Most people give up just when they are about to achieve success. They quit on one yard line. They give up the at last minute of the game one foot from a winning touch down. – Henry Ross Perot

It’s never too late to learn. – Malcolm Forbes

You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress. – J. Paul Getty

I think this is also a great time to invest in private equity, helping companies grow from the ground top. – Jim Rogers

I don’t think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. – John D. Rockefeller

My two rules of investing: Rule one – never lose money. Rule two – never forget rule one. – Warren Buffett

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. – Henry Ford

Only those who are asleep make no mistakes. – Ingvar Kamprad

It is better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you will drift in that direction. – Warren Buffett

Commodities tend to zig, when the equity markets zag. – Jim Rogers

Do not but the hype from wall street and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better. – Jim Rogers

You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how a hot commodities market can be. They will soon. – Jim Rogers

To learn new things; you might need to unlearn old thought and tricks. Both processes can never be achieved without humility. – Ajaero Tony Martins

Go for a business any idiot can run because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it. – Peter Lynch

Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense to those who know what they are doing. – Warren Buffet

The wise man put all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket. – Andrew Carnegie

Buy when everyone else is selling and hold when everyone else is buying. This is not merely a catchy slogan. It is the very essence of successful investments. – J. Paul Getty

A winning strategy must include losing. – Rich Dad

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on assumption they could close the market the next day and not re-open it for five years. – Warren Buffett

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it. – Andrew Carnegie

Your greatest and most powerful business survival strategy is going to be the speed at which you handle the speed of change. That speed of change is trend. – Ajaero Tony Martins

To everything, there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven. A time to plant and a time to harvest that; which is planted. A time to break down and a time to build up. – Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8

Go to the mouse you foolish investor and learn. A mouse never entrusts its life to only one hole. – Ajaero Tony Martins

When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I’ve bought stocks at $12 that went to $2 but then, they later go to $30. You just don’t know when you can find the bottom. – Peter Lynch

Many people rush into the game of investing thinking they are predators. When they get to the middle of the game, they then realize they are the prey and try to escape but it will be too late. Only the preys with a well defined exit strategy will escape, the rest will be slaughtered by the real predators. – Ajaero Tony Martins

Always start at the end before you begin. Professional investors always have an exit strategy before they invest. Knowing your exit strategy is an important investment fundamental. – Rich Dad

Although it’s easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket. It’s part ownership of a business. – Peter Lynch

At a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts. – Aristotle Onassis

Business and financial intelligence are not picked up within the four walls of school. You pick them up on the streets. In school, you are taught how to manage other people’s money. On the streets, you are taught how to make money. – Ajaero Tony Martins

The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money. – Warren Buffett

The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left. – Rich Dad

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in. – John D. Rockefeller

Seek advice on risk from the wealthy who still take risks, not friends who dare nothing more than a football bet. – J. Paul Getty

Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing. – Warren Buffett

Every few seconds it changes, up an eighth, down an eighth. It’s like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, i gain $20 million. – Ted Turner

Men of means look at making money as a game which they love to play. – J. Paul Getty

Wealth is only a benefit of the game of money. If you win, the money will be there. – J. Paul Getty

The most important word in the world of money is cash flow. The second most important word is leverage. – Rich Dad

If you owe the bank $100, that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem. – J. Paul Getty

Financial leverage is the advantage the rich have over the poor and middle class. – Rich Dad

If you are not successful, that means you’re not making enough mistakes. – Robert Kiyosaki

There were two sets of rules when it comes to money: One set of rules for the people who work for money and another set of rules for the rich who print money. – Robert Kiyosaki

The best way to rob a bank is to own one. – Robert Kiyosaki

Rich people makes money when the stock market goes up, rich people makes even more money when the stock market goes down. – Unknown

If you are bearish or bullish long enough, you will eventually be right. – Unknown

Wealth is when small efforts produce big results. Poverty is when big efforts produce small results. – Unknown

In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run, it is a weighing machine. – Ben Graham

If you’re in a camp and a bear attacks, you don’t have to run faster than the bear, you only have to be faster than the slowest camper. – Michael Ruppert

Opportunities always look bigger after they have passed. – Unknown

There comes a point when you stand in the rain and you get so wet, you can’t get any wetter. – Unknown