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Slow down in your drive to have a big investment portfolio. Patience should overrule greed. Buy stocks in good companies and hold on to them for a long time.
Rule No. 1: Don’t Lose Money.
— Warren Buffett
Invest in the known before the unknown.
— Suze Orman
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg — not by smashing it.
— Arnold Glasgow
October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.
— Mark Twain
I made a fortune getting out too soon.
— J. P. Morgan
Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.
— Bernard Baruch
My family wasn't affected by the crash of '29. They went broke in '28.
— Gerald Barzan
The only reason to invest in the market is because you think you know something others don't.
— R. Foster Winans
More Investment Advice from Famous People on How to Invest Your Money
Don't gamble. Take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it 'til it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
— Will Rogers
Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done — except by liars.
— Bernard Baruch
Stay in love with a security until the security gets overvalued, then let somebody else fall in love with it.
— Roy Neuberger
Put your eggs in one basket, and watch the basket.
— Mark Twain
The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
— Kin Hubbard
Never invest in anything that eats or need repairing.
— Billy Rose
There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.
— Mark Twain
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
— Robert Frost
Do not seek dishonest gains: dishonest gains are losses.
— Hesiod
You must trust yourself more than you trust anyone else with your money.
— Suze Orman
Anybody can make a fortune. It takes genius to hold on to one.
— Jay Gould
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
— Jean Jacques Rousseau
Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
— Bernard Baruch
Free Investment Advice from Unknown People
Buy on the cannons, sell on the trumpets.
— French adage
Buy on the rumor, sell on the news.
— Wall Street adage
Tis money that begets money.
— English proverb
If a person has a hundred dollars and makes a million, that is incredible; but if a person has a hundred million dollars and makes a million, that is inevitable.
— American proverb
Get what you can and keep what you have. That's the way to get rich.
— Scottish proverb