Noun
One who invests.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe genuine investor in common stocks does not need a great equipment of brain and knowledge, but he does need some unusual qualities of character. Benjamin Graham
Whenever the investor sold out in an upswing as soon as the top level of the previous well-recognized bull market was reached, he had a chance in the next bear market to buy back at one third (or better) below his selling price. Benjamin Graham
If General Motors is worth $60 a share to an investor it must be because the full common-stock ownership of this gigantic enterprise as a whole is worth 43 million (shares) times $60, or no less than $2,600 million. Benjamin Graham
The speculator is not an investor. Edwin Lefèvre
The purchase of a bargain issue presupposes that the market's current appraisal is wrong, or at least that the buyer's idea of value is more likely to be right than the market's. In this process the investor sets his judgement against that of the market. To some this may seem arrogant or foolhardy. Benjamin Graham
I am not criticizing investing in the stock market; I am an investor. Grace Napolitano