Successful Investors

Quotes from Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, Peter Lynch, and other great investors.

Successful Investors' Quotes

“Try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric. It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.”

— Charlie Munger

“You have to know what you know—your circle of competence.”

— Joel Greenblatt

“If we can’t find things within our circle of competence, we won’t expand the circle. We’ll wait.”

— Warren Buffett

“There are substantial rewards for adopting a regular routine of investing and following it no matter what—and additional rewards for buying more shares when most investors are scared into selling.”

— Peter Lynch

“Being too far ahead of your time is indistinguishable from being wrong.”

— Howard Marks

“If you want to succeed in investments, start early and try hard and keep doing it. All success comes that way, by and large.”

— Charlie Munger