The Lighter Side Of Investing

Since it's the end of August and most investors are on vacation or thinking about one or just got back from one, it seems a good time to go light. With the market's ups and downs (mostly down of late), it seems appropriate to look at some of the more humorous aspects of investing. So don't look at your portfolio for a day and enjoy some lighter moments.

Money isn't everything, but it's a long way ahead of what comes next.

Sir Edmund Stockdale

Money can't buy everything; for example, poverty. Nelson Algren

I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves. Joe Louis, prizefighter.

The easiest way to make a small fortune is start with a large one. Anonymous

Question to John D. Rockefeller: How much money is enough?

Rockefeller: A little more.

I've got all the money I'll ever need. If I die by four o'clock.

Henny Youngman

Suggested Simplified Tax Form: How much money did you make last year? Mail it in.

Stanton Delaplane

The only absolutely safe way to double your money is to fold it once and put it in your hip pocket. Kin Hubbard

October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February. Mark Twain

It's just as I have been constantly telling you, "Don't gamble"; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it. Will Rogers

More people get killed chasing after a higher yield than looking down the barrel of a gun. William LeFevre

If you can actually count your money, then you are not really rich.

J. Paul Getty

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money? Anonymous

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. Woody Allen

The large print giveth. The small print taketh away. U. S. proverb

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to work in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway. Warren Buffett

Next week: Advice from Warren Buffett.....quotes from the master investor.

- Ted Allrich

The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.

The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.