The Ultimate Book of Investment Quotations
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Introduction:
Investing is serious business. But it has its moments – chaos and terror, reward and sublimity – sometimes all within the space of twenty-four hours. Most things are not as good or as bad – and certainly not as permanent – as they seem at the moment. James Thurber said: “Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.” Time and tranquility have a way of reorienting the moment. Sometimes our worst experience becomes our most cherished, because it is so hilarious in the retelling.
Our companion volume, The Ultimate Investor: The People and Ideas that Make Modern Investment, is a serious work. But there is more than one side to every equation and every story. With The Ultimate Book of Investment Quotations, we look at this serious business from the other sides … the reflective, the philosophical and the flip. In the age of sound bytes, quotes take on new importance. The phrase, “I wish I said that,” captures significant meaning and often humor in just a few words. And the words become memorable by being passed on from one to another.
We hope these quotes about investment and finance become memorable to you and are useful in provoking new thoughts, providing content for conversation and speeches, as well as just casual, fun skimming. They have been collected from many sources, some literary, some friends and some personal. By bringing them together for you, we hope to enhance your reading as they have ours. They are arranged in the same order as the chapters of The Ultimate Investor, so that readers may use both volumes together.
Contents:
- CONTRARIAN INVESTING
- CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
- CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING
- ECONOMIC FORECASTING
- EMERGING MARKETS
- FINANCIAL ENGINEERING
- FIXED INCOME
- FOREIGN EXCHANGE
- GLOBAL INVESTING
- GROWTH INVESTING
- HEDGE FUNDS
- INDEXING
- INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERINGS
- INTERNATIONAL MONEY
- INTERNET INVESTING
- INVESTMENT CONSULTANTS
- INVESTMENT POLICY
- INVESTOR PSYCHOLOGY
- MANIAS, PANICS AND CRASHES
- MARKET EFFICIENCY
- MUTUAL FUNDS
- PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT
- POLITICS AND INVESTING
- QUANTITATIVE INVESTING
- RISK MANAGEMENT
- SHORT SELLING
- TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
- VALUE INVESTING
- VENTURE CAPITAL
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Yamileth Newman (verified owner) –
This book, a companion to The Ultimate Investor by the same authors is a reference for all who value meaningful words applied not only to investing but also to everyday life. Naturally, it ties in with investing and particularly its companion book which is referred to in nearly every chapter. Some of the quotations may be familiar to most readers but when one looks at them in the context of investing wisely, they take on a different meaning. In reading this book, one is tempted to try to memorize some of the quotations which have particular relevance to the reader’s interests. This is a sign of value in what has been said which correspondingly makes the book valuable as well. Full credit goes to the authors for putting so many interesting and often witty quotations in a book which can and should be a reference for economists, investors, portfolio managers, investmen advisors and for that matter anyone who appreciates the influence of words on our daily lives. The persons quoted range from the ancient Greeks to the founders of America, to the humourists like Mark Twain, and poets like Ralph Waldo Emerson, to economists and to the modern day investment gurus like Warren Buffet, George Soros and Dean LeBaron. An important addition to any library.
Kailey Howe (verified owner) –
Just as the title says, this book is a collection of quotes that provide readers with a wealth of investment wisdom.
Alaric Snow (verified owner) –
Recently I have bought and borrowed several books on quotations as part of a project. What I have noticed is that it is quality not quantity that matters. If you are like me, you would probably prefer to read ten brilliant quotes over five pages than five brilliant quotes over ten pages. You may notice that not all quotation books are created equal, even though they may contrive to be equal or superior in appearance.
For example, the Forbes book of business contains over 10,000 quotes, and only a few pages in the entire book are dedicated to business quotations. Many quotations are by philosphers and poets, but would you hire a philosopher to run your business?
In addition, there is very little screening for the power or effect of a quote, so the book is not what it pretends to be, and it does not have a keyword search, which I found quite frustrating when looking for the single Rockefeller ‘I believe’ quote I wanted to write down.
On the other hand, I am very impressed with LeBaron’s book. It has close to 2,800 quotes, organised according to various investment themes, such as active portfolio management, contrarian investing, risk management, manias panics and crashes, economic forecasting, politics and investing,technical analysis, value investing to mention a few of the thirty or so themes. You can also do a keyword search, although it’s not as detailed as in say the Oxford Book of Quotations. I found myself copiously copying down pages of notes of notable quotes, many from Warren Buffett.
Here are a few examples:
Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing. Warren Buffett
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonasble one persists in adapting the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw
Strangers are what friends are made of. Cullen Hightower.
Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first and the lesson afterward. Unknown.
Banking is necessary. Bankers are not. Bill Gates.
I think you will enjoy this book, and I hope you found this review helpful