Jason Zweig

People who invest, make money for themselves. People who speculate, make money for their brokers. - Jason Zweig

Jason Zweig

Some of your trades might make money, most of your trades will lose money, but your broker will always make money. - Jason Zweig

Jason Zweig

Day trading – holding stocks for a few hours at a time – is one of the best weapons ever invented for committing financial suicide. - Jason Zweig

Benjamin Graham

“We have seen much more money made and kept by ‘ordinary people’ who were temperamentally well suited for the investment process than by those who lacked this quality, even though they had an extensive knowledge of finance, accounting and stock market lore.” - Benjamin Graham, ‘The Intelligent Investor’

Friedrich Nietzsche

“In individuals, insanity is rare. But in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

Warren E Buffett

“Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money.”- Warren E Buffett

Old Wall Street proverb: “No price is too high for a bull or too low for a bear.”

“Stocks are bought on expectations – not on facts.”

John Maynard Keynes

“The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.” - John Maynard Keynes

Stock Market Analysis

l In the short run, the stock market cannot be analysed.

l In the long run, it need not be analysed!

Larry Swedroe

“There is nothing new in the markets, only the history you haven’t read.”
- Larry Swedroe (US investment advisor)

Benjamin Graham

No statement is more true and better applicable to Wall Street than the famous warning of Santayana: “Those who do not remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.” - Benjamin Graham

Warren Buffett

“Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction” - Warren Buffett

Nani A Palkhivala

We are not poor by nature but poor by policy. You would not be far wrong if you called India the world’s leading expert in the art of perpetuating poverty. - Nani A Palkhivala

A brief insight into Indian taxation

A brief insight into Indian taxation
If you drive a car,
I’ll tax the street;
If you try to sit,
I’ll tax the seat.
If you get too cold,
I’ll tax the heat;
If you love to walk,
I’ll tax your feet!
- Nani A Palkhivala

Benjamin Graham

“No matter how careful you are, the one risk no investor can ever eliminate is the risk of being wrong.” - Benjamin Graham

“The future value of every investment is a function of its present price. The higher the price you pay, the lower your return will be.”

Benjamin Graham

“A stock is not just a ticker symbol or an electronic blip; it is an ownership interest in an actual business, with an underlying value that does not depend on its share price.” - Benjamin Graham

Benjamin Graham

Wall Street people learn nothing, and forget everything. - Benjamin Graham

Benjamin Graham

Wall Street people learn nothing, and forget everything. - Benjamin Graham

Aldous Huxley

Facts do not cease to exist, just because they are ignored - Aldous Huxley

There are old pilots. And there are bold pilots. But there are no old, bold pilots!

Warren Buffett

Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing - Warren Buffett