John Templeton Quotes

Diversification is a safety factor that is essential because we should be humble enough to admit we can be wrong.

See the investment world as an ocean and buy where you get the most value for your money.

I never in all my life bought a stock because I liked it. I bought it because it was a cheaper bargain than any similar stock I would buy anywhere in the rest of the world.

In all my 60 years in the stock market, I never found anyone whose opinion of what the stock market would do next week or next month was worth heeding.

Whenever you get a wild excess on the upside, the following correction doesn't just go back to normal; it almost always falls way below normal.

Through reluctance to sell, more than one investor has avoided the capital gains tax but lost the capital gain itself.

A lifetime of investment research has taught me to become more and more humble about making predictions.

It appears that capital gains are one of the few remaining ways in which an enterprising American can build or augment a fortune.

The difficulty of determining what any stock is really worth is very great indeed. No two security analysts will agree on the worth of a stock, or even on the definition of the word.