Quotes About Market Timing

#1. The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.

Daniel Kahneman

#2. I don't believe all this nonsense about market timing. Just buy good value and when the market is ready that value will be recognized.

Henry Earl Singleton

#3. Market timing, by the way, is a tag some buy-and-hold investors use to put down anything that involves using your brain. These are the same people who like to watch the locomotive coming and get run down in the name of discipline.

Jeremy Grantham

#4. It is our view that stock-market timing cannot be done, with general success, unless the time to buy is related to an attractive price level, as measured by analytical standards. Similarly,

Benjamin Graham

#5. In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and emotional impossibility.

Benjamin Graham

#6. In order to win as a contrarian, you need perfect timing and the perfect size.

Henrique M. Simoes

#7. I think Phil Dick was particularly interesting in that, first of all, he was a very modern man and a very modern thinker, but I don't know what demons drove him.

Ridley Scott

#8. I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.

Garrett Hedlund

#9. Finding my dog's g spot is taking way longer than I would care to admit.

Daniel Tosh

#10. Timing the market is a fools game, whereas time in the market is your greatest natural advantage.

Nick Murray

#11. It's not enough to have a value-adding product in a big market. You also need the right conditions. Will you be able to scale revenues within a 5-10 year time frame? Is the timing right? YouTube wouldn't have worked pre-broadband.

Jose Ferreira

#12. I'm grateful for the road. It gets me in shape. I feel like I'm 25 years old after ther first or second week.

Steven Tyler

#13. The most important ingredient for success in the stock market is a sharp sense of timing.

Venita VanCaspel

#14. The real fortunes in this country have been made by people who have been right about the business they invested in, and not right about the timing of the stock market.

Warren Buffett

#15. Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known.

George Will

#16. As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out.

Tom Hanks

#17. I was driving around the country when I was 19 and happened to run out of cash in Seattle, so I settled here.

Tom Douglas

#18. Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.

Warren Buffett

#19. Freedom is the one value conservatives place above all others, yet time and again, their ideal of freedom ignores the growing imbalance of power in our society that's eroding the freedoms of most people.

Robert Reich

#20. I don't know too many people that are good at timing the market relative to macro-economic events.

Joel Greenblatt

#21. Deco, it was a pleasure to have worked with you.

Frank Rijkaard

#22. Use Time. Make it easy. Get your money to work for you. The key is to get in the market, as it is not about timing the market, but time in the market that matters.

Ann Wilson