“Investing is not buying. It’s more a case of knowing.”

1920s, The Press Under a Free Government (1925)
Context: There does not seem to be cause for alarm in the dual relationship of the press to the public, whereby it is on one side a purveyor of information and opinion and on the other side a purely business enterprise. Rather, it is probable that a press which maintains an intimate touch with the business currents of the nation, is likely to be more reliable than it would be if it were a stranger to these influences. After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world. I am strongly of opinion that the great majority of people will always find these are moving impulses of our life. The opposite view was oracularly and poetically set forth in those lines of Goldsmith which everybody repeats, but few really believe: 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.'.

Part 3, Chapter 12, Investment and Growth, p. 144 (See also: Government spending.)
Economics For Everyone (2008)

Source: The Lonesome Gods (1983), Ch. 19

Source: Confessions of a Shopaholic

Talking about the Victoria University http://www.vu.ac.ug/news/sudhir-ruparelia-buys-victoria-university Purchase

Part II, Revolution, Object Lesson, p. 63.
Running Money (2004) First Edition
Context: But someone knew and made a killing. It was investing when you know something no one else knows.

Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), p.58

The Quotable Sir John

The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Ten, The Transformation of Values and Vocation