Top 100 Quotes About A Stock
#1. If a stock doesn't act right don't touch it; because, being unable to tell precisely what is wrong, you cannot tell which way it is going. No diagnosis, no prognosis. No prognosis, no profit.
Edwin Lefevre
#2. A stock (pile) of money doesn't make you any richer than it makes exchange easier
Amah Lambert
#3. Love was like a stock, Lizzie realized. You gambled on its paying off in the long run - but it could just as easily cost you everything.
Joanna Shupe
#4. Virgil, above all poets, had a stock which I may call almost inexhaustible, of figurative, elegant, and sounding words.
John Dryden
#5. Buy a stock the way you would buy a house. Understand and like it such that you'd be content to own it in the absence of any market.
Warren Buffett
#6. Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta suppellex.
Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there.
Aulus Persius Flaccus
#7. There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.
Jean Baudrillard
#8. Local teenagers killed in a car crash is a suburban legend, a stock plot line.
Stewart O'Nan
#9. Never buy a stock immediately after a substantial rise or sell one immediately after a substantial drop.
Benjamin Graham
#11. Institutions like mutual funds often worry that if they disclose their plans to buy a stock, copycats will move quickly and drive up the stock before the purchase is completed.
Alex Berenson
#12. It is far more difficult ... to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.
Bernard Baruch
#13. Ooh, I like this one!" Connor says. "'Diminished prospects for future.' Sounds like a stock report!
Neal Shusterman
#14. Insider trading is hard to prove. To be convicted, a person must have bought or sold a stock based on material information that is both unknown to the general public and likely to have had an important effect on a company's stock price.
Alex Berenson
#15. When a stock is selling at a discount to liquidation value per share, a near rock-bottom appraisal, it is frequently an attractive investment.
Seth Klarman
#16. I'd like to think that I don't have a stock character that I go to. I'm lucky in that when you get to initiate your own scene, you get to play whoever you want. That's really kind of cool, but all my characters are short. I look on the videotape, and I thought they were taller, but they're all 5'2.
Amy Poehler
#17. You could have another downgrade. You could certainly have a stock market reaction that would be negative. And, I think nobody who looks at it objectively would want to happen.
Rob Portman
#18. Art is like a stock with a decent return for people in finance, and they get to feel like they are involved with culture, spend time with artists, as part of their dividend.
Rachel Kushner
#19. Buy a stock, if it goes up, sell it, if it goes down, don't buy it.
Yogi Berra
#20. It's so rare, especially as a younger actor, to find a role where it's not just one-dimensional and it's not just a stock leading man.
Matt Bomer
#21. Recent economic data shows that our economy is robust, growing and headed in the right direction. The numbers don't lie. Americans are currently enjoying falling gas prices, low unemployment, increased job creation, and a stock market that has reached an all-time high.
J. D. Hayworth
#22. Calculate a stock's price/earnings ratio yourself, using Graham's formula of current price divided by average earnings over the past three years.
Benjamin Graham
#23. Life shouldn't be measured in hours for the vagueness in which they exist, but moments; moments are memorable and we could easily say that a short life filled with a stock of extraordinary memories is worth a thousand times what a long, boring and loveless one is.
Emiliano Campuzano
#24. Rather than majoring in frivolities, women should be educated in useful subjects and 'be furnished with a stock of ideas, and principles, and qualifications, and habits, ready to be applied and appropriated ... ' - Hannah More
Karen Swallow Prior
#25. There is no Soul, where there is give and take. Wherever there is give and take, it is a stock market.
Dada Bhagwan
#26. Creativity is the foundation of wealth. All progress comes from the creative minority. Under capitalism, wealth is less a stock of goods than a flow of ideas, the defining characteristic of which is surprise. If it were not surprising, we could plan it, and socialism would work.
George Gilder
#27. Investors too bite on what's moving and can't sit on a stock that isn't going anywhere.
Christopher W. Mayer
#29. invest only if you would be comfortable owning a stock even if you had no way of knowing its daily share price.3
Benjamin Graham
#30. Gosh, was I wrong. Never listen to a pundit. Is there such a thing as "magnetic back-assward"? We pundits and commentators have had our compass needles pointed in that direction for the past eighteen months. Want a stock tip? I would
P. J. O'Rourke
#31. The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.
Warren Buffett
#32. In the summer we lay up a stock of experiences for the winter, as the squirrel of nuts?something for conversation in winter evenings.
Henry David Thoreau
#33. In 2008, when almost every other investor got crushed, and even the Wall Street "experts" were down by almost half, I was up 17 percent - beating the S&P Average by over 50 percent.
Reminiscences of a Stock Market Flea
James J. Houts
#34. A stock is not just a ticker symbol or an electronic blip; it is an ownership interest in an actual business, with an underlying value that does not depend on its share price.
Benjamin Graham
#35. If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.
Brian Eno
#36. A stock market decline is as routine as a January blizzard in Colorado. If you're prepared, it can't hurt you. A decline is a great opportunity to pick up the bargains left behind by investors who are fleeing the storm in panic.
Peter Lynch
#37. When I'm bearish and I sell a stock, each sale must be at a lower level than the previous sale. When I am buying, the reverse is true. I must buy on a rising scale. I don't buy long stocks on a scale down, I buy on a scale up.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#38. An isolated man like Alexander Selkirk might feel the benefit of a stock of provisions, tools and other means of facilitating industry, although cut off from traffic, with other men.
William Stanley Jevons
#39. Nobody wants to be passive; indexing is not passive - much more goes into indexing than watching a stock become the next buggy whip.
Charles R. Schwab
#40. Sister?" Jessie Kay scowled. "Do I really look like his sister? I clearly come from grade-A stock while his ancestors made a few poor choices along the way.
Gena Showalter
#41. When herding behaviour among investors ramps up, a stock's or index's growth rate can increase faster than exponentially, leading to more herding. This positive feedback brings the system to a tipping point. About two-thirds of the time, a crash results.
Didier Sornette
#42. Real investment risk is measured not by the percent that a stock may decline in price in relation to the general market in a given period, but by the danger of a loss of quality and earnings power through economic changes or deterioration in management.
Benjamin Graham
#43. Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value - in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price - should be labelled speculation
Warren Buffett
#44. There is an unearthly, mystical element in Friedman's thought. The mere existence of a stock of money somehow promotes expenditure. But insofar as he offers an intelligible theory, it is made up of elements borrowed from Keynes.
Joan Robinson
#45. There is always something to worry about. Avoid weekend thinking and ignoring the latest dire predictions of the newscasters. Sell a stock because the company's fundamentals deteriorate, not because the sky is falling.
Peter Lynch
#46. One characteristic that I have observed about the timing of all good traders is that they never try to squeeze out the last point in a stock.
Venita VanCaspel
#47. My business life is really simple. It's like, get check. Put check in bank. Pay rent. I've never bought a stock in my life. I never got caught up in that trip. And the truth is, I don't obsess about money ever.
Bennett Miller
#48. No professional Wall Street tipster or plausible promoter can turn a sane person into a stock gambler as easily as his next-door neighbor bragging about his winnings. If all men profited by experience, the world would be peopled exclusively by the wise....
Kenneth L. Fisher
#49. I'm a casual F1 racing fan. I'm probably more of a stock car, NASCAR guy.
Robin Zander
#50. There's no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or worse, to buy more of it when the fundamentals are deteriorating.
Peter Lynch
#51. Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost no shifting of gears. So, qualifying becomes a test of raw nerve - of how fast a man is willing to take a curve.
Tom Wolfe
#52. Sell a stock only when you have found a new stock that is a 50% better bargain than the one that you hold.
John Templeton
#53. At that bureau a lovesick woman in a crinoline, her hair parted in the middle, may have written a passionate letter to her faithless lover, or a peppery old gentleman in a green frock coat and a stock indited an angry epistle to his extravagant son.
W. Somerset Maugham
#54. Dan Curtis, our producer, has the idea that people like to see a stock company of actors.
Thayer David
#55. I never bought a stock in my life. I don't understand it. To me it is like Chinese.
Lorraine Bracco
#56. Any business that is trying to sell something should be willing to spend a couple dollars for a stock photo to not have ads in it and not distract the user from using the product they're trying to sell.
Jon Oringer
#57. You should not buy a stock because it's cheap but because you know a lot about it.
Peter Lynch
#58. Just because you buy a stock and it goes up does not mean you are right. Just because you buy a stock and it goes down does not mean you are wrong.
Peter Lynch
#59. As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Since people usually have a stock of durables in use, when times get tight, they put off new purchases. What seem like small cutbacks to the end buyer translate into big swings for the producer.
Virginia Postrel
#60. Bulls make money and bears make money, but pigs seldom do. When a stock or mutual fund is up 30%, sell one-quarter of your position.
Nancy Dunnan
#61. The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just as he is being phased out of life.
Waverley Root
#62. History proves ... that a smart central bank can protect the economy and the financial sector from the nastier side effects of a stock market collapse.
Ben Bernanke
#63. Buy cheap and sell high is a rule of business, and when you control enough money and enough banks you can always manage that a stock you want shall be temporarily cheap. No value is destroyed for you - only for the original owner.
Ida Tarbell
#64. I've never bought a stock unless, in my view, it was on sale.
John Neff
#65. We buy expecting to hold a bond to maturity and a stock forever.
Seth Klarman
#66. With an evening coat and a white tie, as you told me once, anybody, even a stock-broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.
Oscar Wilde
#67. The number one idea is to view a stock as an ownership of the business and to judge the staying quality of the business in terms of its competitive advantage. Look for more value in terms of discounted future cash-flow than you are paying for. Move only when you have an advantage.
Charlie Munger
#69. A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'
Claude Pepper
#70. Promoting a stock is like making a movie. You've got to have stars, props, and a good script.
Robert Friedland
#71. If you are not willing to own a stock for 10 years, do not even think about owning it for 10 minutes.
Warren Buffett
#72. I make some of my best recipes with a simple homemade stock. Keep shrimp shells stored in a plastic bag in the freezer. When you have almost a gallon-bag full, you can make a stock in 30 minutes that you can use in soups and sauces. You can then freeze the stock in ice-cube trays.
Emeril Lagasse
#73. Whenever you try to pick market tops and bottoms, you are making a prediction. Guessing what stock is going to outperform the market is forecasting, as is selling a stock for no apparent reason. Indeed, nearly all capital decisions made by most people are unconscious predictions.
Barry Ritholtz
#75. I was a young boy. A stock car guy used to live across the street from us. He'd work on his car, and both of my older brothers became gearheads.
Robin Zander
#76. Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there.
[Lat., Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.]
Aulus Persius Flaccus
#77. Outcome is simply the final score: Who won the game; what numbers came up in a roll of the dice; how high did a stock go. Outcome is the result, regardless of the method used to achieve it. It is not controllable.
Barry Ritholtz
#78. If, when making a stock investment, you're not considering holding it at least ten years, don't waste more than ten minutes considering it.
Warren Buffett
#79. At long as a stock is acting right, and the market is right, do not be in a hurry to take profits. One should never permit speculative ventures to run into investments.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#80. The firm is really ahead of the times. It has a stock market ticker that prints its report on thin aspirins.
Bob Hope
#81. You only need a few good stocks in your lifetime. I mean how many times do you need a stock to go up ten-fold to make a lot of money? Not a lot.
Peter Lynch
#82. The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of economic policymakers, particularly central bankers.
Ben Bernanke
#83. Back in the 1980s when everyone looked a bit off, my friend Tim and his brothers had some publicity shots taken of their band. Eventually they sold the rights to a stock photo agency. Years later, one of the images turned up on a greeting card. The inside said, Greetings from the Dork Club.
Mary Roach
#84. We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
Olivia De Havilland
#85. To establish the right price for a stock, the market must have adequate information, but it by no means follows that is the market has this information it will thereupon establish the right price.
Benjamin Graham
#86. If Iran was a stock, you folks should go out and buy it right now.
Donald Trump
#87. Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one right hand.
Ilka Chase
#88. Whenever I see a stock market explode, six to 12 months later you are in a full blown recovery.
Stanley Druckenmiller
#89. An investor calculates what a stock is worth, based on the value of its businesses.
Benjamin Graham
#90. A stock market index helps investors track the performance of a group of stocks. NRDC worked with FTSE to develop comprehensive and transparent methodologies that screen out companies linked to owning, exploring, or extracting fossil fuels.
Frances Beinecke
#91. A speculator gambles that a stock will go up in price because somebody else will pay even more for it.
Benjamin Graham
#92. The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.
Carl Jung
#93. When a stock doubles, sell half - then what you have is a free position. Then it becomes more of an art form. When you sell depends on individual circumstances.
Peter Cundill
#94. I did a bunch of blue-collar jobs, because I knew I'd wind up with a white-collar job at some point, and I wanted to, I don't know, I just wanted to taste life. I dug graves for a while, I worked as a stock boy in a big department store, I worked in a bank.
Graydon Carter
#95. He gave a talk in which he argued that the way they measured risk was completely idiotic. They measured risk by volatility: how much a stock or bond happened to have jumped around in the past few years. Real risk was not volatility; real risk was stupid investment decisions.
Michael Lewis
#96. The way to make money in the stock market is to buy a stock. Then, when it goes up, sell it. If it's not going to go up, don't buy it!
Will Rogers
#97. Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk.
J.C. Penny
#98. If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes. Put together a portfolio of companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so also will the portfolio's market value.
Warren Buffett
#99. My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.
Marco Rubio
#100. It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining.
James Hogg
