The legendary value investor Warren Buffett has been quoted, paraphrased, cited, and interviewed more than any investor in history. He’s the icon of value investing, the smartest man when it comes to finding companies that are built to last and leads a very humble life for one of the richest men in the world. Truly, a businessman to look up to.
Here are 19 of the best quotes from one of the greatest investors in history.
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This value investor may be the last of his kind but he’s not retiring just yet. At 106, Irving Kahn is still actively investing making him the oldest man in the world still at it. In this interview he talks about his mentor and teacher, Benjamin Graham.
The CFA institute did a wonderful job putting together this promotional video, obviously we care more about who taught him than his credentials, but I’m sure you’ll like it too. Give it a … Read more
For some reason, Financial Engineers, those tasked with creating innovative new investment products, seem to want to create investment products that reduce the volatility from your portfolio. Volatility is the deviation from the normal trend that makes a stock market chart look like the edge of a serrated knife.
If you look at a long term chart of a broadly based stock index, you will see that it goes up at a rate that is somewhere between 8% and 12% … Read more
1. Why Buffett is Successful and Following CNBC Will Never Be
Warren Buffett talks to Becky Quick from CNBC…always interesting. But two things strike me about this conversation. Buffett’s outlook on investments and Quick’s reaction. Buffett, true to form, is always talking about the long term. His entry points on most of his investments occur when nobody agrees with his actions. Back in 2008 when he told investors to “Buy American stocks, I am”, he was clearly swimming against … Read more
This week’s report is short but oh so sweet. It’s a link to the Berkshire Hathaway 2011 annual report. Berkshire, of course, is the company famed investor, Warren Buffett has managed since 1965. While the report is 105 pages long, it’s pages 3 – 24 that you should read. The first page, is the performance record of Buffett over those 47 years. If you’re serious about learning how to become a more successful investor, that record is all the reason … Read more
It’s sad but true. The vast majority of investors will usually be wrong. That’s not opinion or conjecture it’s a fact borne out by study after study.
The irony is, we know the reason they continue to make mistakes with their investments. It’s because they make their investment decisions by looking in the rear view mirror. How else can you explain the way they shun the advice of the world’s greatest investor, Warren Buffett, who has over the years made … Read more
1. Economic Growth vs Stock Market Growth
If you think you’re going to figure out how and where to invest by making an economic judgement of the best place to invest, you might want to read this piece by The Economist. Turns out the correlation between stock market returns and economic output is negative. Who’da thought.
2. We Are Not Who We Think We Are
So, what do you think about thinking? I think maybe you should think about it … Read more
We just don’t seem to care enough about the future to spend any time preparing for it. I think most of us are too busy preparing to get through the next day.
But this is sad. According to a Harris/Decima poll conducted in November (2010), 70% of investors are not fully familiar with the mix of investments in their RSP’s, (i.e. they don’t know what they own). For the vast majority of Canadians, their RSPs constitute the entirety of their … Read more
“They”, never make sense. You know who I’m talking about. They’re the ones who say things like “the markets are going to go up ”, or that this stock or that stock is going to double in the next little while. They say it’s supposed to be a nice winter.
Who are they? They’re really just a collective of prognosticators who make forecasts about the future. But there are two problems with that. First, you can’t forecast the future. Many … Read more
A friend of mine came up to me the other day, after seeing one of my “Get Rich Slowly” billboards and asked, “ Why would you market to get rich slowly, I want to get rich fast”. To which I replied, “then you shouldn’t be one of my clients, should you?” He was a little shocked that I rejected his business that way but I explained to him that getting rich fast is possible, it’s just not probable. Getting rich … Read more
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