Greatest Investors of all time
1. Warren Buffett
Warren Edward Buffett is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist who serves as the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. Wikipedia
Warren Buffett Quotes
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
It's only when the tide goes out that you discover who's been swimming naked.
It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
Our favorite holding period is forever.
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
2. Peter Lynch
Peter Lynch Quotes
“The trick is not to learn to trust your gut feelings, but rather to discipline yourself to ignore them. Stand by your stocks as long as the fundamental story of the company hasn’t changed.”
“Know what you own, and know why you own it”
“The old Wall Street adage "never invest in anything that eats or needs repairs" may apply to racehorses, but it's malarkey when it comes to houses.”
“Go for a business that any idiot can run – because sooner or later any idiot probably is going to be running it.”
“A person who owns property and has a stake in the enterprise is likely to work harder and feel happier and do a better job than a person who doesn't”
“This is one of the keys to successful investing: focus on the companies, not on the stocks.”
3. Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III is an American business magnate, investor, author, philanthropist, humanitarian, and principal founder of Microsoft Corporation. Wikipedia
our most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Life is not fair; get used to it.
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
4. Jeff Bezos
Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American technology entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist, and the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Amazon, the world's largest online retailer. Wikipedia
Jeff Bezos Quotes
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.
5. Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala is an Indian Billionaire Investor and Trader. He is a Chartered Accountant. He manages his own portfolio as a partner in his asset management firm, Rare Enterprises. Wikipedia
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala Quotes
- Markets are like women — always commanding, mysterious, unpredictable and volatile.
- Anticipate trend and benefit from it. Traders should go against human nature.
- Successful investors are opportunistic and optimistic ones.
- Respect the market. Have an open mind. Know what to stake. Know when to take a loss. Be responsible.
- Growth comes out of chaos.
- Market is above individuals. The market is rational. An individual can never be smarter than the market.
- Maximize profits and minimize losses.
- Invest in a business not a company.
- Emotional investment is a sure way to make loss in stock markets.
- If in doubt, listen to your heart.
- Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
- Aspire, but never envy.
- Be paranoid of success — never take it for granted. Realize success can be temporary and transient.
- Build a fighting spirit — take the bad with the good.
6. Benjamin Graham
Benjamin Graham was a British-born American investor, economist, and professor. He is widely known as the "father of value investing," and wrote two of the founding texts in neoclassical investing: ... Wikipedia
Benjamin Graham Quotes
“In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.”
“An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return. Operations not meeting these requirements are speculative.”
“But investing isn’t about beating others at their game. It’s about controlling yourself at your own game.”
“People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers.”
“On the other hand, investing is a unique kind of casino—one where you cannot lose in the end, so long as you play only by the rules that put the odds squarely in your favor.”
“Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.”
“The psychologists Daniel Kahnerman and Amos Tversky have shown when humans estimate the likelihood or frequency of an event, we make that judgment based not on how often the event has actually occurred, but on how vivid the past examples are.”
“With every new wave of optimism or pessimism, we are ready to abandon history and time-tested principles, but we cling tenaciously and unquestioningly to our prejudices. ”
7. Elon Musk
Elon Reeve Musk FRS is an American business magnate, investor and engineer. He is the founder, CEO, and lead designer of SpaceX; co-founder, CEO, and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; and co-founder and CEO of Neuralink. Wikipedia
11 quotes from Elon Musk that will inspire you to take on the impossible:
- "When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."
- "If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not."
- "There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing."
- "When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars, people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked."
- "Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up."
- "It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket."
- "If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic-being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago."
- "We're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work."
- "The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur."
- "I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."
- "I could either watch it happen or be a part of it."
8. Robert Kiyosaki
Robert Toru Kiyosaki is an American businessman and author. Kiyosaki is the founder of the Rich Dad Company, a private financial education company that provides personal finance and business education to people through books and videos. Wikipedia
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.
Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.
When people are lame, they love to blame.
You have to be smart. The easy days are over.
We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.
I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.
9. Charles Thomas Munger
Charles Thomas Munger is an American investor, businessman and philanthropist. He is vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate controlled by Warren Buffett; Buffett has described Munger as his partner. Wikipedia.
“Invest in a business any fool can run, because someday a fool will. If it won’t stand a little mismanagement, it’s not much of a business. We’re not looking for mismanagement, even if we can withstand it.”
“If you think your IQ is 160 but it’s 150, you’re a disaster. It’s much better to have a 130 IQ and think it’s 120.”
“You’ll do better if you have passion for something in which you have aptitude. If Warren had gone into ballet, no one would have heard of him.”
“What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you’re unreliable, it doesn’t matter what your virtues are. You’re going to crater immediately. Doing what you have faithfully engaged to do should be an automatic part of your conduct. You want to avoid sloth and unreliability.”
“It reminds me of the young guy who went up to Mozart and said, ‘I’d like to write symphonies.’ When Mozart said, ‘You’re too young,’ the young man replied, ‘But you were young when you started.’ Mozart pointed out, ‘Yes, but I wasn’t asking anyone else for advice on how to do it.”
10. John Templeton
Sir John Marks Templeton was an American-born British investor, banker, fund manager, and philanthropist. In 1954, he entered the mutual fund market and created the Templeton Growth Fund. Wikipedia
John Templeton Quotes
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