Business and Investing Quotations

"The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money." Anon.

 

"The problem with the person who thinks he's a long-term investor and impervious to short-term gyrations is that the emotion of fear and pain will eventually make him sell badly."
-Robert Wibbelsman

 

A man who conforms never transforms.
-Dickson G. Watts

 

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. - Andre Maurois

 

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. - Robert Greeen Ingersoll

 

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know. - Napoleon Bonaparte

 

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. - Elbert Hubbard

 

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curioosity acute. - William Lyon Phelps

 

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. - Jean Paul Richter

 

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. - George Edward Woodberry