Some key elements of the Investment philosophies of five all-time great investors.
Warren Buffett
Buffett’s investing philosophy is buying when others are selling. “Be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy when others are fearful,”
Benjamin Graham
Popularly known as the father of value investing,
Graham’s
investment style focused on discipline and rationality. “Investing isn’t about beating others at their game. It’s about controlling yourself at your own game.”
His investment philosophy, too, had discipline as the key theme. “The trick is not to learn to trust your gut feelings, but rather to discipline yourself to ignore them.”
Peter Lynch
One of the important lessons one can learn from Lynch is that success comes after many setbacks and one should take them as lessons. “People who succeed in the stock market also accept periodic losses, setbacks, and unexpected occurrences.”
Philip Arthur Fisher
Fisher’s style of investing. He has often been quoted as saying that doing what everybody else is doing at the moment is often the wrong thing to do at all and patience is essential if big profits are to be made from an investment.
One of his famous quotes is, “Don’t look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!”
Jack Bogle
Bogle did not believe in timing the market and found it a less credible idea as his quote suggests, “The idea that a bell rings to signal when investors should get into or out of the market is simply not credible. After nearly 50 years in this business, I do not know of anybody who has done it successfully and consistently.”
Patience, discipline and rationality have been the central ideas of most all-time great investors. These ideas are relevant not only for Investment but for living a fulfilling life as well……Stay Invested