Investor Quotes - page 3

An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made. (Daymond John)
Consumer groups fought hard to provide investor protections for 'special entities' such as pension funds, schools, and municipalities who purchase swaps. No comparable protection exists in the futures market. View quote
Daniel L. Doctoroff
Investor confidence in Adani is fairly high, and most of our investors are long-term investors. View quote
Gautam Adani
If you are an investor who's retired and hopes to live off the income that your portfolio is generating, then we would focus just on the dividend yield. View quote
James O'Shaughnessy
I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance. View quote
James Chanos
Nothing turns off an investor more than when an entrepreneur comes in with a ridiculous valuation. View quote
Kevin Harrington
When you're an investor, you can look at the quantitative and qualitative elements of an investment, but there's a third aspect: What you feel in your gut. View quote
Kevin O'Leary
Investor demand for distressed property has been healthy, as rents rise to levels that can cover investors' costs while they wait for properties to appreciate. Giving investors a small tax break should further juice up demand, supporting prices for distressed homes and the market in general. View quote
Mark Zandi
In the 40 years I've been working as an economist and investor, I have never seen such a disconnect between the asset market and the economic reality... Asset markets are in the sky, and the economy of the ordinary people is in the dumps, where their real incomes adjusted for inflation are going down and asset markets are going up. View quote
Marc Faber
It's as important to sell yourselves as much as the service. The business model's going to change 50 times, and the market's going to change, but you need to convince that investor that you are smart enough and excited enough about the opportunity that you'll figure it out. View quote
Dylan Smith
I had an investor who said to me he'd keep his money with me as long as I didn't have a girlfriend and I didn't start combing my hair. (Martin Shkreli)
As an investor, what we're not looking for is 'oh this is a cool app,' it's 'is this something that can become a big business?' You need to find those that can become real businesses. View quote
Niklas Zennstrom
We are each other's seventh largest trading partner, we are the fifth largest investor there and likewise, we have a lot of exchanges between political leaders, businessmen, tourists and school children too. View quote
Sellapan Ramanathan
I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor. View quote
Simon Baker
If you're a retail investor, you have set aside some of your hard-earned money for investment or to create a nest egg, for your kids or family. View quote
Vito Fossella
If you are going to be a great investor, you have to fit the style to who you are. View quote
Michael Burry
On the economy, the U.S. cumulatively is our most important investor, most important trading partner, most important sort of tourists, and we have now a tie that will... a link that will be here for many, many years to come, and that is the big Philippine-American community in the United States - three million of them. View quote
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
For investor confidence, it is important that there is certainty about the future of Ireland in E.U. View quote
Jose Manuel Barroso
A good portfolio is more than a long list of good stocks and bonds. It is a balanced whole, providing the investor with protections and opportunities with respect to a wide range of contingencies. View quote
Harry Markowitz
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. View quote
Benjamin Graham
The investor who permits himself to be stampeded or unduly worried by unjustified market declines in his holdings is perversely transforming his basic advantage into a basic disadvantage. (Benjamin Graham)
Readers of this book, however intelligent and knowing, could scarcely expect to do a better job of portfolio selection than the top analysts of the country. But if it is true that a fairly large segment of the stock market is often discriminated against or entirely neglected in the standard analytical selections, then the intelligent investor may be in a position to profit from the resultant undervaluations. View quote
Benjamin Graham
The investor and the employee are in the same position, but sometimes the employee is more important, because he will be there a long time whereas an investor will often get in and out on a whim in order to make a profit. View quote
Akio Morita
An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job. View quote
Robert Kiyosaki
An investor doesn't have a prayer of picking a manager that can deliver true alpha. View quote
Eugene Fama