Invest like a bull, sit like a bear and watch like an eagle. (mantra for long term investing)
Don’t always trust what you see. In a bull market even a duck looks like a swan.
Investing is like Yoga. Body, mind and soul have to be aligned.
Chase the story behind the stock, not the money on the table. Money will make you rich, but the story will make you wealthy.
Better to lose money in a good company rather than making money in a bad one.
Read not only between the lines, but also what is not written.
If the management has not performed well in their bad times in the past, chances are they will not perform well in their good times in the future too.
There is large cap, mid cap, small cap. There is also a “BHANGAAR CAP”. More than 4000 out of 6000 companies fit in that category. They show up only in the good times. Be careful
In markets, stupid action does not have equal but severe opposite reaction.
Trading is injurious to your wealth. If you are smoking you may die in 20-30 years whereas by trading, this may happen the very next day.
When kids come on the dance floor it’s time for elders to go to the bed.
Your investment belongs to the market and your profits belong to you.
Regret is a lifestyle disease of equity investing.
When we are right, we earn. When we are wrong, we learn.
A bull market is very much like being in love. You don’t realise its value till it’s gone.
Rome was not built in a day, but Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed in a day.
A bull doesn’t go wrong in predicting an upswing in a falling market. He goes wrong when he predicts a down swing in a rising market.
If you keep trying to hit a four but you keep on getting only one run. Then chances are when you will hit a six you will get caught.
Investing is a business, investment is a project and investor is a promoter.