Stock Market Wisdom Quotes

"The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing."

– Philip Fisher

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

– Benjamin Graham

"Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas."

– Paul Samuelson

"Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful."

– Warren Buffett

"The four most dangerous words in investing are: 'This time it’s different.'"

– Sir John Templeton

"It’s not whether you’re right or wrong that’s important, but how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong."

– George Soros

"The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator."

– Ben Graham

"Do not put all your eggs in one basket."

– Andrew Carnegie

"I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful."

– Warren Buffett

"The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient."

– Warren Buffett

"Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing."

– Warren Buffett

"Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing."

– Warren Buffett

"Know what you own, and know why you own it."

– Peter Lynch

"The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists."

– Benjamin Graham

"Time in the market beats timing the market."

– Ken Fisher