Entries Tagged as 'investment proverbs'
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. [...]
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The herd instinct is the strongest emotion especially dangerous in investing.
When making investment decisions your emotions are often a reverse indicator of what you ought to be doing.
When everyone rushes to one side of the boat, head to the other side to avoid getting soaked.
Be sure to put your feet in the right place, and [...]
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Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a refund from the IRS, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
-From a Washington Post word contest
Money will buy you a pretty dog, but it won’t buy the wag of his tail.
Henry Wheeler Shaw
The only reason a great many American families don’t own an elephant [...]
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Debt is dumb, Cash is King.
Dave Ramsey
That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Abraham Lincoln
In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.
James Burgh
The borrower is servant to the lender.
The Bible
I have learnt to seek my happiness in limiting my desires, [...]
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
Jonathan Swift
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
Thomas Jefferson
If little money does not go out, great money will not come in.
Chinese Proverb
To have money is good; to have control of money is still better.
Hebrew Proverb
With money in your pocket, you [...]
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Benjamin Franklin
Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Have you something to do tomorrow; do it today.
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.
No nation was ever ruined by trade, even seemingly the most disadvantageous.
Remember, that Time is Money.
They [...]
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But divide your investments among many places, for you do not know what risks might lie ahead. (Principle of diversification)
Ecclesiastes 11:2
The way of the fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to counsel.
Proverbs 12:15
Good planning and hard work lead to prosperity, but hasty shortcuts lead to poverty.
Proverbs 21:5
Good people leave [...]
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