Investment Psychology Quotes & Sayings

You have to understand your own psychology. You have to understand that human beings weren't really designed to invest. We have all these emotions that are appropriate responses if you're being chased by a tiger, but they're terrible responses if you've got a 30-year time horizon to think about investment or when you're trying to manage investment over 30 years. — William J. Bernstein

I think investment psychology is by far the more important element, followed by risk control, with the least important consideration being the question of where you buy and sell. — Tom Basso

Laugh every chance you get. Laughter is sure to break the bonds of negativity that may be lurking about. — James Van Praagh

You gotta lean towards the things that make you like yourself. Forget everything else. — Matt Berninger

The post-war loss of Churchill may have damaged the Western world with the same impact as the post-civil war world was damaged by the loss of Lincoln. — Warren Adler

For nearly eight decades, I've had the great fortune of playing thousands of roles before millions of people. — Dick Van Patten

The reader can test his own psychology by asking himself whether he would consider, in retrospect, the selling at 156 in 1925 and buying back at 109 in 1931 was a satisfactory operation. Some may think that an intelligent investor should have been able to sell out much closer to the high of 381 and to buy back nearer the low of 41. If that is your own view you are probably a speculator at heart and will have trouble keeping to true investment precepts while the market rushes up and down. — Benjamin Graham

For a man, the optimal evolutionary strategy is to disseminate his genes as widely as possible, given his few minutes (or, alas, seconds) of investment in each encounter. It all makes simple evolutionary sense, since a woman invests a good deal of time and effort -a nine month long, risky, strenuous pregnancy, in each offspring. Naturally she has to be very discerning in her choice of sexual partners. — Abhijit Naskar

I'm not friends with any of my exes, and I've never understood the appeal. — Chelsea Handler

Alcoholism is a well documented pathological reaction to unresolved grief. — David Cook

While some might mistakenly consider value investing a mechanical tool for identifying bargains, it is actually a comprehensive investment philosophy that emphasizes the need to perform in-depth fundamental analysis, pursue long-term investment results, limit risk, and resist crowd psychology. — Seth Klarman

He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight. — Jon Krakauer

All inventions are not patentable, and all patented subjects are not inventions. — Kalyan C. Kankanala

I'm fighting to save myself, and save myself, I will. Mary Magdalene in The Last Temptation of Christ — Nikos Kazantzakis

Whenever you see shrinks on television, they're so clearly written by patients. They're either idealized or they're demonized or they love their patients. All they ever think about is their patients. — Amy Bloom

L.A. style is more laid back than London, mainly because it's always sunny. In London, the cold means you get to rock layers. And you can't go wrong with a trench coat! — Jessica Lowndes

When we live out of pride, we are left to tirelessly protect the single seed of life, but when we live with the posture of humility and die to ourselves, we allow God to turn our one life into an abundant harvest that reaches so far beyond ourselves we will scarcely believe what God can do with a single life that chooses to die in the soil of His hands. — Kelly Minter

I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation. — Peter Mandelson