Nicolas Darvas Quotes



Best 21 Quotes by Nicolas Darvas

How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market Quotes

“Accept everything for what it is, not what you want it to be.”

How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market

“All a company report and balance sheet can tell you is the past and the present. They cannot tell future.”

How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market

“Buy high and sell higher.”

How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market

“First check whether the market as a whole is rising or falling. In other words, are you in a bull market or a bear market? If the latter, stay out. The odds are against you.”

How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market

“I also learned to stay out of bear markets unless my individual stocks remain in their boxes or advance.”

How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market

“I became over-confident, and that is the most dangerous state of mind anyone can develop in the stock market.”

How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market

“I believe in analysis and not forecasting.”

How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market

Book of the Week

Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald Trump

 

“I bought with bold confidence when I thought I was right and coldly, without hurt ego, I took my limited losses when I thought I was proven wrong.”

How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market

“I decided never again to risk more money than I could afford to lose without ruining myself.”

How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market

“I decided to let my stop-loss decide.”

How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market

“I did not know it but I was already coming up against one of the great pitfalls of the small operator — the almost insoluble problem of when to enter the market.”

How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market

“I keep out in a bear market and leave such exceptional stocks to those who don’t mind risking their money against the market trend.”

How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market

“I knew now that I had to keep rigidly to the system I had carved out for myself.”

How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market

“I listened eagerly to what they had to say and religiously followed their tips. Whatever I was told to buy, I bought. It took me a long time to discover that this is one method that never works.”

How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market

Book of the Week

Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald Trump

 

“I made up my mind to buy high and sell higher.”

How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market

“I was successful in taking larger profits than losses in proportion to the amounts invested.”

How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market

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“Volatility creates lower returns and thus is itself a risk. If you can reduce the volatility in a portfolio, then the compounded return moves higher, closer to the simple average return of the weighted investments in the portfolio. This is how lower portfolio price volatility increases portfolio return over time.”


More quotes by Rick Ferri

“Like human beings, stocks behave differently. Some of them are calm, slow, conservative. Others are jumpy, nervous, tense. Some of them I found easy to predict. They were consistent in their moves, logical in their behavior. They were like dependable friends.”

How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market

“My only sound reason for buying a stock is that it is rising in price. If that is happening, no other reason is required. If that is not happening, no other reason is worth considering.”

How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market

“The truth was that as my pocket had strengthened, my head had weakened.”

How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market

“There are no good or bad stocks, there are only rising and falling stocks.”

How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market

“There is no reason to sell a rising stock.”

How I Made $2,000,000 In The Stock Market

Book of the Week

Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald Trump