Here are 10 more quotes that may help ease investors’ angst in these times of troubling market swings.
John Keynes: “As time goes on, I get more convinced that the right method in investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.”
John Keynes: “The dealers on Wall Street could make huge fortunes if only they had no inside information.”
Warren Buffett: “Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.”
Sir John Templeton: “Investors should expect and react to change — there are no stocks that you can buy and forget”.
Sir John Templeton: “If you search worldwide, you will find more — and possibly better — bargains than in any single nation.”
Sir John Templeton: “The only way to avoid mistakes is not to invest — which is the biggest mistake of all.”
Benjamin Graham: “Buy when most people, including experts, are pessimistic, and sell when they are actively optimistic.”
Benjamin Graham: “In the short run the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.”
Peter Lynch: “I believe in stocks. If you look at the returns of the last 70 years, stocks are the undisputed champs.”
Peter Lynch: “Invest in what you know.”