Quotes worth building around.

A curated place for sharp thoughts, personal reminders, and principles that are useful enough to revisit. Some will be general. Some will be specifically about investing.

General quotes

01
Success means getting up one more time than you fall.
Winston Churchill
02
If you always do what you already can, you will always remain what you already are.
Henry Ford
03
The greatest people are those who can give hope to others.
Jean Jaurès
04
Courage stands at the beginning of action; fortune at the end.
Demokrit
05
He who has a why to live can endure almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche
06
Simplicity is the highest form of perfection.
Leonardo da Vinci
07
The obstacle on the path becomes the path.
Marcus Aurelius
08
If you do not control your attention, you do not control your life.
Naval Ravikant
09
He that is overcautious will accomplish little.
Friedrich von Schiller

Investing quotes

01
The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.
Warren Buffett
02
Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing.
Warren Buffett
03
The best investor is not the one with the highest IQ, but the one with the best temperament.
Benjamin Graham
04
Be greedy when others are fearful, and fearful when others are greedy.
Warren Buffett
05
The stock market is the only market where people panic when things go on sale.
Warren Buffett
06
Wealth is often created through concentration. It is usually preserved through diversification.
Charlie Munger
07
Investing should be more like watching paint dry. If you want excitement, go to Las Vegas.
Paul Samuelson
08
The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
John Maynard Keynes
09
Profits are not made by frequent trading, but by waiting correctly.
Jesse Livermore
10
The four most dangerous words in investing are: this time is different.
John Templeton
11
Only buy something you would be willing to hold if the market closed for ten years.
Warren Buffett