Top 100 Quotes About Stock Market
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. In the short term, the stock market is a voting machine. In the long run, it's a weighing machine" that measures a company's true value.
Brad Stone
#4. We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#5. If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
Norman Ralph Augustine
#6. What I put in the stock market, I don't have to touch in my lifetime. I want to live off my bonds. I want to be that safe.
Monica Seles
#7. As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying statistics.
Peter Lynch
#8. Even from the very beginning, I didn't put any money in the stock market.
Trey Parker
#9. He wondered, often, what it would look like if and when the shit in question hit the fan: The stock market at bottom was rigged. The icon of global capitalism was a fraud.
Michael Lewis
#10. In the stock market, when you are right, you make a little money; when you are wrong, you learn a lot of lessons, so you always win!
Mika.
#11. The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism, is rigged,
Michael Lewis
#12. A weakness of the random-walk model lies in its assumption of instantaneous adjustment, whereas the information impelling a stock market toward its "intrinsic value" gradually becomes disseminated throughout the market place.
Richard Arnold Epstein
#13. Reflecting an amalgam of economics, monetary, and psychological factors, the stock market represents possibly the most subtly intricate game invented by man.
Richard Arnold Epstein
#14. The most important ingredient for success in the stock market is a sharp sense of timing.
Venita VanCaspel
#15. The stock market is never obvious. It is designed to fool most of the people, most of the time.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#16. 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
#17. I heard that you did not have a judge to interview this month in the Bulletin, so I thought I'd help out. Besides, with the Stock Market tanking recently, it reminded me of the good old days.
Joseph Force Crater
#18. The end of the decline of the Stock Market will probably not be long, only a few more days at most.
Irving Fisher
#19. For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe.
Mark Skousen
#20. Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
Daniel Drew
#21. The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient.
Warren Buffett
#22. They [Chinese] have very smart, experienced people. I don't want to paint them all with the same brush. There was a little bit of a feeling that the stock market, which went from something like $4 trillion in valuation to $10 trillion, that the Chinese wanted that.
Jamie Dimon
#23. The stock market is like a small row boat on a rough sea, bouncing around as it drifts, whereas the macro economy is like a large ocean liner, very ponderous and difficult to maneuver but without such a rough journey.
Clive Granger
#24. All you can do is every day, try to solve a problem and make your company better. You can't worry about it, you can't panic when you look at the stock market's decline. You get frozen like a deer in the headlights. All you can do is all you can do.
Larry Ellison
#25. When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.
Joe Biden
#26. In history, the evidence is overwhelming: Stock market bottoms happen, and then stocks jolt upwards while the economy keeps getting worse - sometimes by a lot and for a long time.
Kenneth Fisher
#27. The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.
Byron Katie
#28. I am not merely a habitual quoter but an incorrigible one. I am, I may as well face it, more quotatious than an old stock-market ticker-tape machine, except that you can't unplug me.
Joseph Epstein
#29. There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market, test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of life.
Mantak Chia
#30. Before Volcker's speech, bonds had been conservative investments, into which investors put their savings when they didn't fancy a gamble in the stock market. After Volcker's speech, bonds became objects of speculation, a means of creating wealth rather than merely storing it.
Michael Lewis
#31. When you are an entrepreneur, you have founded your own firm, it is so easy to find that you exist - you are the main shareholder of your company; it is very easy to look at the stock market position of your company to know how rich you are.
Thomas Piketty
#32. China frequently confounds stock market prognosticators because it has a penchant for straying markedly from other broad global indexes year-by-year over the decades - even from emerging markets. It's hit or miss.
Kenneth Fisher
#33. 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
#34. We are facing incredible challenges in the economy of the U.S. and the economy of the globe, but the stock market, we never know whether it's over-discounted or under-discounted or got exactly right its anticipation.
John C. Bogle
#35. Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections.
Warren Buffett
#36. It's one of the fundamental principles of the stock market: When interest rates go up, stocks go down. And along with financial companies and cyclicals, technology companies - with their sky-high price-to-earnings multiples - should be among the biggest losers in an environment of rising rates.
Alex Berenson
#37. Anyone with a pension or retirement is an investor in the stock market.
Brad Katsuyama
#38. I don't give a damn about the stock market. But I do care about jobs.
George Voinovich
#39. The players are too serious. They don't have any fun any more. They come to camp with a financial adviser and they read the stock market page before the sports pages. They concern themselves with statistics rather than simply playing the game and enjoying it for what it is.
Rocky Bridges
#40. I would not want to form a partnership with an architect who has only a little knowledge of building or a broker who has a limited knowledge of the stock market. Still, we form what we hope to be permanent relationships in love with people who have hardly any knowledge of what love is.
Leo Buscaglia
#41. The stock market's handling of new technology is kind of a joke. We have seen CNBC, CNNfn, Bloomberg, and the like turn into home-shopping networks for stocks. Fund managers and analysts go on TV and sell what's shiny and easy to sell.
Mark Cuban
#42. The Stock Market was down today. Two major businesses declared bankruptcy, consumer spending is at an all time low - in other words, Bush is back on the job.
Jay Leno
#43. I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
Warren Buffett
#44. Take Charge Of Your Financial Future. I believe investing small amounts each month in the stock market will give you financial freedom in the later years of your life.
Bo Sanchez
#46. The U.S. stock market now trades inside black boxes, in heavily guarded buildings in New Jersey and Chicago.
Michael Lewis
#47. The stock market and economy are two different things.
Milton Friedman
#48. You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.
Peter Lynch
#49. Christianity isn't moving people's lives today. What's moving people's lives is the stock market and the baseball scores. What are people excited about? It's a totally materialistic level that has taken over the world. There isn't even an ideal that anybody's fighting for.
Joseph Campbell
#50. After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.
Ron Chernow
#51. But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose.
Mark Cuban
#52. The (stock) market is there only as a reference point to see if anybody is offering to do anything foolish. When we invest in stocks, we invest in businesses.
Warren Buffett
#53. I just made a killing in the stock market
I shot my broker.
Henny Youngman
#54. The Mexican debt crisis, Latin American debt crisis, the crises of the 1990s, the Wall Street stock market crash, and other events should have reminded us, and did remind us, that financial instability remains a concern, remains a problem.
Ben Bernanke
#55. North Korea's whole idea is to create a crisis to solve a crisis. They're so poor and they're so desperate that they realize that this bombastic rhetoric can drive the South Korean stock market down and get the U.S. in a tizzy. And it's a game they've been playing for many, many years.
Barbara Demick
#56. A battle goes on in the stock market and the tape is your telescope. You can depend upon it seven out of ten cases.
Edwin Lefevre
#57. If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.
John C. Bogle
#58. You can invest with less risk and make more money in the stock market. All you have to do is not be an average investor. Intelligence is the ability to make finer distinctions.
Robert Kiyosaki
#59. Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn't perfect at predicting the future. Based on today's stock market close, Apple is worth more than Dell. Stocks go up and down and things may be different tomorrow but I thought it was worth a moment of reflection today.
Steve Jobs
#60. Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public.
Gavyn Davies
#61. The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my estimation.
James Stockdale
#62. The stock market is overpriced. Everything is overpriced. Junk is king.
Jeremy Grantham
#63. One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world.
Ron Chernow
#64. In fact, of all hoodoos in Wall Street I think the resolve to induce the stock market to act as a fairy godmother is the busiest and most persistent.
Edwin Lefevre
#65. First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense of economic insecurity.
Thomas E. Mann
#66. He would joke that "stock-market forecasters exist to make astrologers look good.
Clements, Jonathan
#67. They said the stock market crashed, or something, but since I'm deaf I didn't hear it (ha-ha).
Stephen King
#68. In the stock market, even slight miscalculations can cause huge financial losses. Additionally, you need to study and monitor the corporations you've invested in. You
Zachary D. West
#69. One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
William Feather
#70. 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
#71. He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection that he devotes to the selection of a medium-priced automobile.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#72. As far as you are concerned, the stock market does not exist. Ignore it.
Warren Buffett
#73. Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker.
Ron Chernow
#74. I make no effort to predict the course of general business or the stock market. Period. However, currently there are practices snowballing in the security markets and business world which, while devoid of short term predictive value, bother me as to possible long term consequences.
Warren Buffett
#75. 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
#76. I don't invest in the stock market, but I have pension funds - some in America and the UK.
Eric Idle
#77. My ethical values prevent me from investing in the stock market.
Steven Magee
#78. People who succeed in the stock market also accept periodic losses, setbacks, and unexpected occurrences. Calamitous drops do not scare them out of the game.
Peter Lynch
#79. As you know President Bush has been traveling around the country trying to sell his new Social Security plan. He wants to take our retirement money and invest it in the stock market. He says nothing can go wrong. I'll mention that to Martha Stewart the next time I see her.
Jay Leno
#80. The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#81. What the Fed is really trying to say is that it doesn't know what it is going to do next. And if the markets abhor anything, it is uncertainty. Expect bond and stock market volatility to increase from here until the inflation outlook solidifies.
Scott Anderson
#82. 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
#84. The electronic age has broadened the horizons of magical fraud to an astonishing degree. Faerie gold can be used for more than just party tricks; it works pretty well on the stock market, for example, where money's an illusion anyway.
Seanan McGuire
#85. The stock market resembles a huge laundry in which institutions take in large blocks of each others washing ... without rhyme or reason.
Benjamin Graham
#86. Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included.
Pola Negri
#87. Being a successful investor & winning in the stock market is a matter of skill & discipline and not luck alone
Jack D. Schwager
#88. 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
#89. If you can't sleep at night because of your stock market position, then you have gone too far. If this is the case, then sell your position down to the sleeping level.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#90. When asked what the stock market will do: It will fluctuate
J. P. Morgan
#91. Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand.
Warren Buffett
#92. I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.
Federico Garcia Lorca
#93. Reg NMS was intended to create equality of opportunity in the U.S. stock market. Instead it institutionalized a more pernicious inequality. A small class of insiders with the resources to create speed were now allowed to preview the market and trade on what they had seen.
Michael Lewis
#94. A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about the person doing the predicting.
Warren Buffett
#95. Government pensions, built into law and mostly protected from stock market vagaries, are the envy of the private sector.
Nina Easton
#96. Blessing is defined by neither ease nor worldly possessions nor pain-free existence nor stock-market successes. Blessing is bowing down to receive the expressions of divine favor that in the inner recesses of the human heart make life worth the bother.
Beth Moore
#97. The stock market cares about only one thing above all else: anticipated earnings. If companies make more money, their share prices eventually rise. The stock price is simply a reflection of a company's earning power. Everything else is noise.
Peter Mallouk
#98. So the stock market could have a negative wealth effect and weigh on capital spending, but a sharp decline in long-term interest rates would be an important counterweight.
Joseph Barbera
#99. We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario.
Ron Chernow
#100. Remember that the stock market is manic-depressive.
Warren Buffett
