Investment Quotations

"Bull Markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria."

--- Michael B. Steele 

Investor:  "One who bought stocks that went up."
Speculator:  "One who bought stocks that wen down."

--- Malcolm Forbes

"One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one man buys, another sells, and both think they are astute."

--- William Feather

"Persistency is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite."

--- Robert Half

Ultimate bravery is courage of the mind.

--- H. G. Wells

Ambition, energy, industry, perseverance, are indispensable requisites for success in business.

--- P. T. Barnum

"Men are born to succeed --- not to fail."

--- Henry David Thoreau

"The law of work does seem utterly unfair --- but there it is and nothing can change it: The higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in money also."

--- Mark Twain

Sign in office:  No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

--- Charles F. Kettering

"Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise."

--- Peter Drucker

"I early found that when I worked for myself alone, myself alone worked for me; but when I worked for others also, others worked also for me."

--- Benjamin Franklin

"Speculation is an effort, probably unsuccessful, to turn a little money into a lot.  Investment is an effort, which should be successful, to prevent a lot of money from becoming a little."

--- Fred Schwed, Jr.

"The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life."

--- Henry Ford