Top 20 Quotes About Stock Speculation

#1. How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all ... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, I was wrong.

B.C. Forbes

#2. I started freelancing for the Associated Press. I had a great mentor there who sort of taught me everything.

Lynsey Addario

#3. Any project can be estimated accurately (once it's completed).

Peter Taylor

#4. And herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, - who is good? not that men are ignorant, - what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men. He

W.E.B. Du Bois

#5. The Depression was an incredibly dramatic episode - an era of stock-market crashes, breadlines, bank runs and wild currency speculation, with the storm clouds of war gathering ominously in the background ... For my money, few periods are so replete with human interest.

Ben Bernanke

#6. There is nothing new in Wall Street. There can't be because speculation is as old as the hills. Whatever happens in the stock market today has happened before and will happen again.

Jesse Lauriston Livermore

#7. First-order cybernetics is the science of observed systems; Second-order cybernetics is the science of observing systems.

Heinz Von Foerster

#8. You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

Tom Ridge

#9. 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

#10. If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Vaclav Havel

#11. Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage.

Tim Ward

#12. One could teach knowledge. One could teach skills. One could even, she knew, teach something of the Force. But patience had to be learned alone.

Alan Dean Foster

#13. I've never been a fan of euphemism.

Jo Brand

#14. 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

#15. Ban short-selling, high speed trading and all other instruments of pure speculation

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

#16. I hunger for books, I search for knowledge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. How to kill yourself without hurting anyone.

Don't.

Neil Hilborn

#18. Stock
speculation is largely a matter of A trying to decide what B, C and D
are likely to think-with B, C and D trying to do the same.

Benjamin Graham

#19. Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a region of enchantment.

Washington Irving

#20. She thought her eyes were playing

Kami Garcia

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