The best financial quotes from the world’s greatest investors

Warren Buffett (Businessman and investor, Net worth: 72.3 billion USD - Forbes 2015):
Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.

Robert G. Allen:
How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.

Sir John Templeton (stock investor, businessman and philanthropist):
The four most dangerous words in investing are "This time it's different.

Warren Buffett (Businessman and investor, Net worth: 72.3 billion USD - Forbes 2015):
Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

Albert Einstein:
Compound interest is the most powerful force on earth.

Sir John Templeton (stock investor, businessman and philanthropist):
If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.

Benjamin Franklin:
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Warren Buffett (Businessman and investor, Net worth: 72.3 billion USD - Forbes 2015):
Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

Warren Buffett (Businessman and investor, Net worth: 72.3 billion USD - Forbes 2015):
It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Peter Lynch (Businessman and investor, Net worth; 352 million USD - 2006):
Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it’s doing.

Peter Lynch (Businessman and investor, Net worth; 352 million USD - 2006):
Invest in businesses any idiot could run, because someday one will.

Warren Buffett (Businessman and investor, Net worth: 72.3 billion USD - Forbes 2015):
Never invest in a business you can’t understand.

Martin Whitman (American investment advisor):
We ignore outlooks and forecasts… we’re lousy at it and we admit it … everyone else is lousy too, but most people won’t admit it.

Benjamin Graham (British-born American economist and investor):
The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator.

Peter Lynch (Businessman and investor, Net worth; 352 million USD - 2006):
Know what you own, and know why you own it.

Philip Arthur Fisher (American stock investor):
The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

Warren Buffett (Businessman and investor, Net worth: 72.3 billion USD - Forbes 2015):
We don’t have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

Sir John Templeton (Investor, businessman and philanthropist):
The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell.

Warren Buffett (Businessman and investor, Net worth: 72.3 billion USD - Forbes 2015):
If you aren’t willing to own a stock for ten years, don’t even think about owning it for 10 minutes.

Rene Rivkin (Australian entrepreneur, investor, investment adviser and stockbroker, Net worth: approx. 30,5 million USD - 2002):
When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?

Warren Buffett (Businessman and investor, Net worth: 72.3 billion USD - Forbes 2015):
Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should try to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy only when others are fearful.

Peter Lynch (Businessman and investor, Net worth; 352 million USD - 2006):
Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. If you are susceptible to selling everything in a panic, you ought to avoid stocks and mutual funds altogether.

Warren Buffett (Businessman and investor, Net worth: 72.3 billion USD - Forbes 2015):
It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

Peter Lynch (Businessman and investor, Net worth; 352 million USD - 2006):
Although it’s easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket… it’s part-ownership of a business.

Louis Bacon (Businessman and investor, Net worth: 1.4 billion USD - 2012):
As a speculator you must embrace disorder and chaos.

George Soros (Investor, author, and philanthropist, Net worth: 24.2 billion USD):
If investing is entertaining, if you’re having fun, you’re probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.

Seth Klarman (Businessman and investor, Net worth: 1.3 billion USD - 2014):
While some might mistakenly consider value investing a mechanical tool for identifying bargains, it is actually a comprehensive investment philosophy that emphasizes the need to perform in-depth fundamental analysis, pursue long-term investment results, limit risk, and resist crowd psychology.

Jim Rogers (Businessman, investor and author, Net worth: approx. 300 million USD):
Bottoms in the investment world don't end with four-year lows; they end with 10- or 15-year lows.

Seth Klarman (Businessman and investor, Net worth: 1.3 billion USD - 2011):
While it might seem that anyone can be a value investor, the essential characteristics of this type of investor-patience, discipline, and risk aversion-may well be genetically determined.

John Maynard Keynes: (British Investor and Economist - founder of modern macroeconomics)
Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

Charlie Munger (Businessman and investor, Net worth: 1.3 billion USD - Forbes 2015):
It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.

John Bogle: (Investor, Net worth: 5.8 billion USD - Forbes 2012):
If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.

Benjamin Graham (British-born American economist and investor):
Those with the enterprise lack the money and those with the money lack the enterprise to buy stocks when they are cheap.

Robert T. Kiyosaki (Businessman, investor, self-help author and motivational speaker)::
It's not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician and risk analyst):
Avoid losers. If you hear someone use the words ‘impossible’, ‘never’, ‘too difficult’ too often, drop him or her from your social network. Never take ‘no’ for an answer (conversely, take most ‘yeses’ as ‘most probably’).

Bill Gates (Businessman, philanthropist and inventor):
To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.

Bill Gates (Businessman, philanthropist and inventor):
Patience is a key element of success.

Paul Anthony Samuelson (American economist and the winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science):
Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

Jon Stewart (American comedian, writer, producer, director, actor and media critic):
If I’d only followed CNBC’s advice, I’d have a million dollars today. Provided I’d started with a hundred million dollars.

Dave Ramsey (American financial author and motivational speaker):
Financial peace isn’t the acquisition of stuff. It’s learning to live on less than you make, so you can give money back and have money to invest. You can’t win until you do this.

Donald Trump: (Businessman, politician and author, Net worth: 4.1 billion USD)
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Robert T. Kiyosaki (Businessman, investor, self-help author and motivational speaker):
Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an Individual's cash flow and wealth.

Robert J. Shiller (American Nobel Laureate, economist, academic and best-selling author):
It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble.