Top 46 Investing Quotes of All Time

1. "Price is what you pay. Value is what you get." - Benjamin Graham
2. "Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it. He who doesn't, pays it." - Albert Einstein
3. "Know what you own, and why you own it." - Peter Lynch
4. "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin
5. "The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient." - Warren Buffett
6. "Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing" - Warren Buffett
7. "The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator." - Benjamin Graham
8. "Prices are never too high to begin buying or too low to begin selling." - Jesse Livermore
9. "Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!" - John Bogle
10. "Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." - Warren Buffett
11. "It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price." - Warren Buffett
12. "You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets." - Peter Lynch
13. "Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years." - Warren Buffett
14. "It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who has been swimming naked." - Warren Buffett 
15. "Don't work for money; make it work for you." - Robert Kiyosaki
16. "You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ. - Warren Buffett
17. "Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing." - Peter Lynch
18. "In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine." - Benjamin Graham
19. " The four most dangerous words in investing are: 'this time it's different" - John Templeton 
20. "I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful." - Warren Buffett
21. "The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy, and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell." - John Templeton
22. "The investor's chief problem - and even his worst enemy - is likely to be himself." - Benjamin Graham
23. "Wall Street makes its money on activity. You make your money on inactivity." - Warren Buffett
24. "If you don't study any companies, you have the same success buying stocks as you do in a poker game if you bet without looking at your cards." - Peter Lynch
25. "Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket. It's part ownership of a business." - Peter Lynch 
26. "I put two children through Harvard by trading options. Unfortunately, they were my broker's children." - Jason Zweig 
27. "Rule Number One: Never Lose Money. Rule Number Two: Never Forget Rule Number One" - Warren Buffett
28. "Time is your Friend, Impulse is your Enemy." - John Bogle
29. "Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas." - Paul Samuelson
30. "Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves." - Peter Lynch
31. "The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing." - Phillip Fisher
32. "When you invest, you are buying a day that you don't have to work."- Aya Laraya
33. "A market downturn doesn't bother us. It is an opportunity to increase our ownership of great companies with great management at good prices."- Warren Buffett
34. "If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice." - Norman R. Augustine
35. "All intelligent investing is value investing - acquiring more that you are paying for. You must value the business in order to value the stock."- Charlie Munger
36. "A 10% decline in the market is fairly common - it happens about once a year. Investors who realize this are less likely to sell in a panic, and more likely to remain invested, benefitting from the wealthbuilding power of stocks." - Benjamin Graham
37. "Buy when everyone else is selling and hold when everyone else is buying. This is not merely a catchy slogan. It is the very essence of successful investments." - J. Paul Getty
38. "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." - John Maynard Keynes
39. "Buy a stock the way you would buy a house. Understand and like it such that you'd be content to own it in the absence of any market." - Warren Buffett
40. "Anyone who is not investing now is missing a tremendous opportunity." - Carlos Slim
41. "If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians." - Warren Buffett
42. "Go for a business any idiot can run because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it." - Peter Lynch
43. "If you don't know who you are, this is an expensive place to find out." - Adam Smith 
44. "How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case." - Robert G. Allen 
45. "Sometimes buying early on the way down looks like being wrong, but it isn't." - Seth Klarman 
46. "The broker said the stock was "poised to move." Silly me, I thought he meant up." - Randy Thurman

 "I love quotes… but in the end, knowledge has to be converted to action or it's worthless." - Tony Robbins