Top 30 Philip Fisher Short Quotes:
(A Mega Thread)
(A Mega Thread)
In the stock market a good nervous system is even more important than a good head.
The successful investor is usually an individual who is inherently interested in business problems.
Usually a very long list of securities is not a sign of the brilliant investor, but of one who is unsure of himself.
He should take extreme care to own not the most, but the best.
There are fads and styles in the stock market just as there are in women’s clothes.
I have already made up my mind, don’t confuse me with facts.
If you can’t do a thing better than others are doing it, don’t do it at all.
Companies that have failed to go uphill have invariably gone downhill.
Be extra careful when buying into companies and industries that are the currrent darlings of the financial community.
If the job has been correctly done when a common stock is purchased, the time to sell it is - almost never.
The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
Buying a company without having sufficient knowledge of it may be even more dangerous than having inadequate diversification.
Practical investors usually learn their problem is finding enough outstanding investments, rather than choosing among too many.
Once a stock has been properly selected and has borne the test of time, it is only occasionally that there is any reason for selling it at all.
For the great majority of transactions, being stubborn about a tiny fractional difference in the price can prove extremely costly.
The more successful the corporation, the more likely it is to be unique in some of its policies.
In the field of common stocks, a little bit of a great many can never be more than a poor substitute for a few of the outstanding.
It is not the profit margins of the past but those of the future that are basically important to the investor.
Long term investors best stay away from low profit-margin or marginal companies.
None of us likes to admit to himself that he has been wrong.
The need for patience if big profits are to be made from investment.
There is a complicating factor that makes the handling of investment mistakes more difficult. This is the ego in each of us.
Paying a fancy price for something… because of too favorable interpretation of basic facts, is the investment fad of the moment.
Forecasting is like trying to turn lead into gold.
Nothing is worth doing unless it is worth doing right.
Don’t be afraid of buying on a war scare.
An investor should always realize that some mistakes are going to be made.
Don’t follow the crowd and don’t overstress diversification.
Conservative investors sleep well.
Constant leadership in engineering, not patents is the fundamental source of protection. (Personal Favourite)
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