An investor calculates what a stock is worth, based on the value of its businesses.
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.
Both from the standpoint of stocks and bonds, an investor wants to go where the growth is.
When I read in Fortune magazine that Warren Buffet, the billionaire investor and one of the world's richest men, was investing in a direct sales (network marketing) company, I decided I was missing something.
The American economy is going to do fine. But it won't do fine every year and every week and every month. I mean, if you don't believe that, forget about buying stocks anyway. . . It's a positive-sum game, long term. And the only way an investor can get killed is by high fees or by trying to outsmart the market.
When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in short, being fooled by randomness.
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For investor confidence, it is important that there is certainty about the future of Ireland in E. U.
The value of the security analyst to the investor depends largely on the investor's own attitude. If the investor asks the analyst the right questions, he is likely to get the right or at least valuable answers.
They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations of inflation. So if the average investor believes that there is inflation coming, they'll move that rate up.
If your investments are limited to this earth, you are the world's worst investor.
To be an investor you must be a believer in a better tomorrow.
I'm primarily just an investor.
It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
A good investor in this new world knows to always expect the unexpected.
There are no safeguards that can protect the emotional investor from himself.
I am truly an angel investor and I'am not a passive investor. As a passive investor, I am awful because I can not put funding into a company and leave it to other people.
The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.
To enjoy a reasonable chance for continued better than average results, the investor must follow policies which are (1) inherently sound and promising, and (2) not popular on Wall Street.
. . . a speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.
