The normal expectancy of the average investor - for example, the pension funds of AT&T or IBM - is 6% for a long time.
The Republican Primaries were quite interesting. The establishment had its candidate, [Mitt] Romney, a kind of a Wall Street lawyer and investor, and they wanted him in. But the base didn't want him.
A good investor in this new world knows to always expect the unexpected.
I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope.
Independent thinking is not just helpful in becoming a successful investor, it’s required.
We next consider the rule that the investor does or should consider expected return a desirable thing and variance of return an undesirable thing.
I'm a passive investor. There are people who are very aggressive; they try to buy companies.
For investor confidence, it is important that there is certainty about the future of Ireland in E. U.
If you are going to be a great investor, you have to fit the style to who you are.
Whenever the investor sold out in an upswing as soon as the top level of the previous well-recognized bull market was reached, he had a chance in the next bear market to buy back at one third (or better) below his selling price.
A value strategy is of little use to the impatient investor since it usually takes time to pay off.
I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am no investor.
It’s waiting that helps you as an investor, and a lot of people just can’t stand to wait. If you didn’t get the deferred-gratification gene, you’ve got to work very hard to overcome that.
The investor with a portfolio of sound stocks should expect their prices to fluctuate and should neither be concerned by sizable declines nor become excited by sizable advances. He should always remember that market quotations are there for his convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.
If the world couldn't see your results, would you rather be thought of as the world's greatest investor but in reality have the world's worst record? Or be thought of as the world's worst investor when you were actually the best?
The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.
Of one thing the investor can be certain: A large company's need to bring in a new chief executive from the outside is a damning sign of something basically wrong with the existing management - no matter how good the surface signs may have been as indicated by the most recent earnings statement.
The successful investor is usually an individual who is inherently interested in business problems.
If something great comes off with the potential TV series, I will go straight to an investor this time and put my money in whatever they invest in.
It is only by understanding the emotion of others that an investor has a chance to produce superior results.