Bear Market Quotes

#1. A defensive investor can always prosper by looking patiently and calmly through the wreckage of a bear market.

Benjamin Graham

#2. There is no training, classroom or otherwise, that can prepare for trading the last third of a move, whether it's the end of a bull market or the end of a bear market.

Paul Tudor Jones

#3. For those properly prepared, the bear market is not only a calamity but an opportunity.

John Templeton

#4. I never hesitate to tell a man that I am bullish or bearish. But I do not tell people to buy or sell any particular stock. In a bear market all stocks go down and in a bull market they go up.

Jesse Lauriston Livermore

#5. The upward move at the beginning of a bull market is almost always huge compared with the vacillations late in the bear market. If you try to pick a bottom, you will miss a good part of the action.

Kenneth Fisher

#6. Americans believe that the bottom line isn't everything, it's the only thing, and America is strangling on that lack of vision."13 Bennis also noted, "It isn't either a bull or a bear market anymore, it's a pig market."14

Richard Blackaby

#7. The fact that the bond market is rallying today is a plus. If this ends up being a bear market, it will be one of the first ever that began when interest rates are down.

John Manley

#8. Nothing beats a little cash in a bear market, of course, and the oldest form of cash is gold.

James Grant

#9. In Reno, there is always a bull market, never a bear market, for the stocks and bonds of happiness.

Virgilia Peterson

#10. The average man doesn't wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically which particular stock to buy or sell. He wants to get something for nothing. He does not wish to work. He doesn't even wish to have to think.

Jesse Lauriston Livermore

#11. First check whether the market as a whole is rising or falling. In other words, are you in a bull market or bear market? If the latter, stay out. The odds are against you.

Nicolas Darvas

#12. I think that I could have been take apart if the bear market continued, but I waited three years before I felt the bear market was over and I was right.

Jim Cramer

#13. The lion's share of the bear market is over, ... It's a two-part issue. Yes, the marketplace could be nasty. But there's a great deal of nastiness that's already happened in the bond market.

Paul McCulley

#14. Bonds despite their ridiculous yields will not easily be threatened with a new bear market,

Bill Gross

#15. In a bull market, everyone becomes an expert! In a bear market, everyone becomes wise!

Amit Trivedi

#16. Normally, if you have a huge category that leads a bear market all the way down to the bottom - like tech after 2000, or energy in the '80-'82 bear market - you get one quick pop, and then years of lag as we fight the old war.

Kenneth Fisher

#17. The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over.

Paul Singer

#18. In general, the hedge funds were clobbered by the 1969 bear market, ending up in many cases with records that were worse than those put together by aggressive mutual funds denied the luxury of short sales.

Carol Loomis

#19. At least us old men remember what a real bear market is like, and the young men haven't got a clue.

Jeremy Grantham

#20. Any bull market covers a multitude of sins, so there may be all sorts of problems with the current system that we won't see until the bear market comes.

Ron Chernow

#21. If buying equities seem the most hazardous and foolish thing you could possibly do, then you are near the bottom that will end the bear market.

Joseph Granville

#22. In a correction, other people's stocks go down, in a bear market, your stocks go down.

Alan Abelson

#23. 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

#24. The last leg of a bull market always ends in hysteria; the last leg of a bear market always ends in panic.

Jim Rogers

#25. In a bear market, you have to use sharp countertrend rallies to sell.

Bruce Kovner

#26. The longer the bull market lasts the more severely investors will be affected with amnesia; after five years or so, many people no longer believe that bear markets are possible.

Benjamin Graham

#27. In the early days of the crash it was widely believed that Jesse L. Livermore, a Bostonian with a large and unquestionably exaggerated reputation for bear operations, leading a syndicate that was driving the market down.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#28. There is only one side of the market and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side.

Jesse Livermore

#29. I have never known a great trader, with his first reputation established as a bear operator, who did not either turn bull or drop out of the market altogether.

William Peter Hamilton

#30. Secular cycles are the long periods - as long as decades - that come to define each market era. These cycles alternate between long-term bull and bear markets.

Barry Ritholtz

#31. two well-recognized economic principles. First, the firmer the monopolistic controls in a given market, the higher the prices. Second, monopoly prices are discriminatory prices. "Charging all the traffic will bear" does not mean that all the traffic will bear the same charge! In fact, it will not.

George W. Stocking

#32. Josh bear-hugs St Clair. "I'm sorry you're off the market."
"Don't tell Anna, but I bought one for you, too," St Clair says.

Stephanie Perkins

#33. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

Barbara Mikulski

#34. Market discipline can only limit moral hazard to the extent that debt and equity holders believe that, in the event of distress, they will bear costs.

Ben Bernanke

#35. Bring market forces to bear on health care insurers. Creating a health care 'exchange,' one of the better ideas included in House Bill 3200, creates affordable, accessible and portable insurance for millions of Americans.

Andrew P. Harris

#36. Ronald Coase, in his classic 1937 paper on 'The Nature of the Firm,' was the first to bring the concept of transaction costs to bear on the study of firm and market organization.

Oliver E. Williamson