Philip Fisher

Philip Fisher- "I don't want a lot of good investments; I want a few outstanding ones."


If the job has been correctly done when a common stock is purchased, the time to sell it is almost never.

Philip Fisher

The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

Philip Fisher

I don’t want a lot of good investments; I want a few outstanding ones.

Philip Fisher

I have owned one stock since 1969, two since 1988 and one I started buying in 1986 or so. That’s my portfolio. Six stocks. I once owned 17, but that was way too much.

Philip Fisher

I remember my sense of shock some half-dozen years ago when I read a [stock] recommendation to sell shares of a company . . . The recommendation was not based on any long-term fundamentals. Rather, it was that over the next six months the funds could be employed more profitably elsewhere.

Philip Fisher

Great stocks are extremely hard to find. If they weren’t, then everyone would own them.

Philip Fisher

I sought out Phil Fisher after reading his “Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits”. When I met him, I was impressed by the man and his ideas. A thorough understanding of a business, by using Phil’s techniques… enables one to make intelligent investment commitments.

Warren Buffet on Philip Fisher and his work