Investing Quotes

Investing Words of Wisdom

"Look to add quality, dividend-paying, blue chips when they become irrationally oversold and undervalued. That is how and when experienced investors create blue chip investment portfolios which serve them well throughout their entire lives with growth of capital and growth of dividend income. The process is called 'investing' as opposed to whatever the hype and hope of the moment is in style."

Kelley Wright, Managing Editor, Investment Quality Trends

"The beauty of the high-quality, worldwide, non-cyclical approach is that it gives a good reward while being low-risk, simple, non-commission intensive, and exposed to few surprises. I have often recommended it to people who want to build a simple, sound portfolio and do not have the capital to go to investment counsel. It adapts well to a do-it-yourself approach, because there is no need for constant, high-quality security analysis to support it - which a management firm can provide, but often at a hefty price."

Stephan Jarislowsky

"Stocks are simple. All you do is buy shares in a great business for less than the business is intrinsically worth, with management of the highest integrity and ability. Then you own those shares forever."

Warren Buffett

"Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks just as well, if not better, than the average Wall Street expert."

Peter Lynch

"Focus on 'value' stocks. Studies have shown that buying companies when they're cheap (when the market value of the company is only slightly higher than the value of the assets on its books) generates much greater returns than buying more expensive fast-growing 'growth' companies. Buffett seems to know this, because he routinely buys companies when they are unloved and their stocks are relatively cheap."

Matt Krantz, USA Today, "Invest Like Warren Buffett"

"There are no bad days in the market. When the market is down, you’ve got bargains, and it’s lovely to think of what you are buying at low prices. When the market is up, the bargains have gone, but you’re rich.”

Bruce Greenwald (First Eagle Funds)

“I also do not believe in buying companies that do not pay attractive dividends.  Nobody can forecast the future.   But it’s obvious that companies that have a strong uninterrupted record are more interesting than those that have not.”

Stephan Jarislowsky