Famous Investment Quotations

When asked what the stock market will do, J.P Morgan (1837-1913) (banker, financier, businessman) replied:"It will fluctuate."

October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February. -Mark Twain

Keynes:The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

Buffett:You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out. – (many more from Buffett here)

From Poor Richard’s Almanac, Benjamin Franklin, 1735-47:

• A fool and his money are soon parted….
• Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things….
• Beware of little Expenses, a small Leak will sink a great Ship.
  
  A bull is someone who believes the stock market will go up and a bear is someone who believes the stock market will go down. A bull market is a rising market and a bear market is a falling market. Where does bull and bear come from? Some sources say that a bull knocks you up in the air (rising market) and a bear knocks you down (falling market). Investment Trivia
  
  Shakespeare: Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
  
  Winston Churchill said this: “Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.”
  
  Groucho Marx: “Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.”
  
  Julius Rosenwald: “Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.”
  
  Ecclesiastes 5:10 "Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income."
  
  Ecclesiastes 10:19 "A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything."
  
  You’ll want to stay away from the brokerage firms who's motto is 'Win 'em, spin 'em, churn 'em, and burn 'em.' Investment Trivia
  
  We can all be reassured by this comforting saying from Bertrand Russell: "The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith."