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Investment Proverbs – Deep Sayings

August 19, 2010

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipation of others.

John Maynard Keynes

 

Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Warren Buffett

 

The love of money is the root of all evil.

1 Timothy 6:10 Bible

 

It’s time, not timing, that makes money in the market.

 

Investing in stock is like growing vegetables in a garden. You need to give your investments time to grow and ride out some bad weather.

 

The safe time to invest is when there is blood in the streets.

Mark Mobius

 

Investing is something you do to become wealthy, not something you do once you become wealthy.

 

When to stay and when to leave is the critical choice when there is a storm.

 

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

 

There are two times when people forget their investment principles: at the top of the market and at the bottom.

Phillip A. Lowe

 

Never invest in anything that promises to change your life, because it probably will, for the worse.

 

Predicting rain doesn’t count, building an ark does.

Laszio Birinyi

 

The only ones that get hurt on a roller coaster are the jumpers.

Paul Harvey

 

In almost every other walk of life, people buy more at lower prices; in the stock market they seem to buy more at higher prices.

James Grant

 

A correction takes place to determine which investments are the tennis balls and which are the eggs. You want to own the things that bounce, as in tennis balls and not in eggs.

William Berger

 

Most people ignore probabilities and exaggerate risk.

Ralph Wanger

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Ken Faulkenberry earned an MBA from the University of Southern California (USC) Marshall School of Business with an emphasis in investments. Ken has 25 years of investment experience and is dedicated to helping people with self-directed investment management through the Arbor Investment Planner. His asset allocation strategies have an outstanding performance record.

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