1. “There are only two types of people when it comes to market timing: (1) People who cannot do it, (2) People who have not realized that they cannot do it.” – Terry Smith
  2. “The idea that a bell rings to signal when investors should get into or out of the stock market is simply not credible.” – John Bogle
  3. "Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections than has been lost in corrections themselves." – Pater Lynch
  4. "Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times." - Bernard Baruch
  5. "Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient." – Warren Buffett
  6. “You don’t need to beat the market, do over-leveraging, or pick the best stock to be rich. You just need to earn a decent rate-of-return and let your money compound overtime.” – Naved Abdali
  7. "We continue to make more money when snoring than when active." – Warren Buffett
  8. "Whenever some analyst seems to know what he's talking about, remember that pigs will fly before he'll ever release a full list of his past forecasts, including the bloopers." - Jason Zweig
  9. “Predicting a downturn is not critical. The important thing is what you do when a significant downturn happens.” – Naved Abdali
  10. “The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.” - Daniel Kahneman
  11. “I do not know of anybody who has done it successfully and consistently. I don't even know anybody who knows anybody who has done it successfully and consistently.” – John Bogle
  12. “We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good.” - Warren Buffett
  13. “Market timing recommendations have an impressive track record of being harmful to an investor’s financial health.”- Peter Bernstein
  14. “It’s a staple of personal finance advice: Buy-and-hold, because trading the stock market is a sucker’s bet.”- Larry Swedroe
  15. “The odds that you will achieve long-term success by actively trading or timing the market round to zero.”- Morgan Housel