The Traders Journal

Investment Quotes for All of Us

Gatis Roze

Gatis Roze

Author, Tensile Trading: The 10 Essential Stages of Stock Market Mastery

As we celebrate this season of Thanksgiving, I want to acknowledge a few favorite quotes that are embedded with special wisdom for investors.


  1. Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.”  — Publilius Syrus (1st century BC)
  2. Don’t try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top.  It can’t be done except by liars.” — Bernard Baruch (1870 - 1965)
  3. A stock does not know that you own it.” — Peter Lynch, One Up on Wall Street
  4. Never let yesterday use up too much of today.”  — Will Rogers
  5. Ninety percent of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven’t done enough homework.”  — William O’Neil, Investors Business Daily
  6. Eighty percent of success is showing up.”  — Woody Allen

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- Gatis Roze

Gatis Roze
About the author: , MBA, CMT, is a veteran full-time stock market investor who has traded his own account since 1989 unburdened by the distraction of clients. He holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, is a past president of the Technical Securities Analysts Association (TSAA), and is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). After several successful entrepreneurial business ventures, Gatis retired in his early 40s to focus on investing in the financial markets. With consistent success as a stock market trader, he began teaching investments at the post-college level in 2000 and continues to do so today. Learn More