- Investing isn’t about beating others at their game. It’s about controlling yourself at your own game
- The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The Intelligent Investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists
- The way I like to think of day trading is that it’s probably the most effective weapon ever to commit financial suicide, … It’s an absolutely lethal way for the typical person to invest because it’s not even really a form of investing, it’s gambling pure and simple
- If a company has stable earnings quarter after quarter, … and each quarter its earnings go up another penny, and then all of a sudden, they don’t go up anymore, investors go nuts
- The alluring, long-shot chance of a huge gain is the grease that lubricates the machine of innovation
- People are attracted to stocks that move. The thing that these kinds of speculators, and I’m not going to call them investors, what these speculators are seeking is action
- People who are in a good mood are more inclined to try learning new skills, to see things in a broader context, to think of creative solutions to problems, to work well with other people, and to persist instead of giving up. If you were writing a recipe for how to make more money, those are among the first ingredients you would include
- We come with this built-in prediction addiction, … Brain research [shows] that you’re going to try to outsmart the market whether you can or not
- Mutual funds really stunk
- The stock market’s calmness is making many portfolio managers jittery.
- Small-time investors are moving away from stock-market euphoria, not toward it
- How come people who swear they are long-term investors can’t live up to their own best intentions?
- The sillier the market’s behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor