Hello. I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader and quotes collector. Here is a list of 8 Philip Fisher quotes that I liked and saved from various books. I hope you enjoy reading them.
Philip Fisher Quotes
Doing what everybody else is doing at the moment, and therefore what you have an almost irresistible urge to do, is often the wrong thing to do at all.
from Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits book by Philip Fisher
If the job has been correctly done when a common stock is purchased, the time to sell it is—almost never.
from Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits book by Philip Fisher
An investor should always realize that some mistakes are going to be made and that he should have sufficient diversification so that an occasional mistake will not prove crippling. However, beyond this point he should take extreme care to own not the most, but the best. In the field of common stocks, a little bit of a great many can never be more than a poor substitute for a few of the outstanding.
from Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits book by Philip Fisher
The intelligent investor should not buy common stocks simply because they are cheap but only if they give promise of major gain to him.
from Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits book by Philip Fisher
Usually a very long list of securities is not a sign of the brilliant investor, but of one who is unsure of himself.
from Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits book by Philip Fisher
There are fads and styles in the stock market just as there are in women’s clothes. These can, for as much as several years at a time, produce distortions in the relationship of existing prices to real values almost as great as those faced by the merchant who can hardly give away a rack full of the highest quality knee-length dresses in a year when fashion decrees that they be worn to the ankle.
from Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits book by Philip Fisher
It is my opinion that in almost any field nothing is worth doing unless it is worth doing right.
from Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits book by Philip Fisher
All of my business life, I have believed that the success of my own business—or any business—depends on following the principles of two I’s and an H. These principles are integrity, ingenuity, and hard work.
from Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits book by Philip Fisher