Top 31 Bull Market Sayings
#1. They say you never grow poor taking profits. No, you don't. But neither do you grow rich taking a four-point profit in a bull market. Where I should have made twenty thousand dollars I made two thousand. That was what conservatism did for me.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#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. Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.
Jim Rogers
#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. I caught hold of the great bull market in soybeans in 1977. I had no idea what I was doing, incidentally.
Bruce Kovner
#6. 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
#7. 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
#9. In Reno, there is always a bull market, never a bear market, for the stocks and bonds of happiness.
Virgilia Peterson
#10. 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
#11. I think we're in the beginning of a bull market. When a bull market begins, nine months later the economy turns around.
Sumner Redstone
#12. As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius.
Ron Chernow
#13. The last leg of a bull market always ends in hysteria; the last leg of a bear market always ends in panic.
Jim Rogers
#14. In a bull market, everyone becomes an expert! In a bear market, everyone becomes wise!
Amit Trivedi
#15. Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that develop, particularly during the long bull market.
Ron Chernow
#16. A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market.
Ron Chernow
#17. A bull market is like sex. It feels best just before it ends.
Warren Buffett
#18. I can find only one bull market, in 1935, that didn't have some material indigestion within its first 12 months.
Kenneth Fisher
#19. 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
#20. Buffett also teaches investors that there is one important caveat to the multiyear test: Underperformance in the late stages of a speculative bull market is highly likely. It's a caveat that he repeats to this day. We
Jeremy Miller
#21. 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
#22. A market does not culminate in one grand blaze of glory. Neither does it end with a sudden reversal of form. A market can and does often cease to be a bull market long before prices generally begin to break.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#23. As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin.
Ron Chernow
#24. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
Barbara Mikulski
#25. Life is like the stock market. Some days you're up. Some days you're down. And some days you feel like something the bull left behind.
Paula Wall
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. If you roll dice, you know that the odds are one in six that the dice will come up on a particular side. So you can calculate the risk. But, in the stock market, such computations are bull - you don't even know how many sides the dice have!
Nassim Nicholas Taleb