Top 100 Quotes About The Market
#1. From the political angle, I'm trying to be apolitical if you will. I mean people say, 'Are you a red state or blue state?', I say, 'I'm purple.' I think there are great ideas on both sides of the aisle and neither side has cornered the market.
Brad Thor
#2. Healthy competition places discipline on the market and should focus providers on providing the best service at a lower cost.
Julius Genachowski
#3. We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#4. Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.
Robert Frost
#5. The Family in particular, but also other really **** conservatives come to call what is "Biblical Capitalism." The idea that capitalism is ordained in the Bible and that inasmuch as we interfere with the market, we're interfering with God's literal and visible hand.
Jeff Sharlet
#6. The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
Thomas Sowell
#7. Free culture depends upon vibrant competition. Yet the effect of the law today is to stifle just this kind of competition. The effect is to produce an over-regulated culture, just as the effect of too much control in the market is to produce an over-regulated-regulated market.
Lawrence Lessig
#8. I recommend Avon Skin-So-Soft. It's a bath product. It smells like someone fed a Disney Princess through a juicer, but it works better than anything else on the market.
Mira Grant
#9. Why should antitrust laws be used to block mergers that the market, by the existence of willing buyers and sellers, shows to be desirable?
HENRY MANNE
#10. Taylor Swift dates guys so she can write a breakup song about them. I don't think she's dating for love - I think she's dating for creativity. So let's get her off the market and put her in dating detox. If she really wants love, she has to stop writing music about them.
Patti Stanger
#11. One of their most famous coups was underwriting a $10 million loan for a growing mail-order house called Sears, Roebuck, headed by Goldman's distant relative. It was the first time a mail-order security had ever been on the market-a calculated risk, but one that paid off.
Kenneth L. Fisher
#12. No matter what you're trying to do there will be noise in the market ... Before the race starts, I'm already focused on the victory.
Sanya Richards-Ross
#13. I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.
Michael C. Hall
#14. The story is told of Socrates walking through the market in Athens, with its groaning abundance of options, and saying to himself, "Who would have thought that there could be so many things that I can do without?"4
Os Guinness
#15. The prevailing view has been that the market will earn a high rate of return if the holding period is long enough, but entry point is what really matters.
Seth Klarman
#16. It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.
Andrei Codrescu
#17. You go on Facebook, you buy social advertising. And you can very cost-effectively target people who are in the market for your product from all over the world.
Marc Andreesen
#18. Products can introduce more complexity over time, but as far as launching and introducing a new product into the market, it's a marketing problem. You have to explain everything you do, and people have to understand it, within seconds.
Kevin Systrom
#19. We're trying to bring improved seeds to rural villages to increase yields. We're also trying to improve the roads to make it easier for people to get their produce to the market.
Augustin Matata Ponyo
#20. The distribution of the market is fat-tailed relative to the normal distribution ... For passive investors, none of this matters, beyond being aware that outlier returns are more common than would be expected if return distributions were normal.
Eugene Fama
#21. People don't come up to me very often. Everyone is always in such disbelief that I can go to the market.
Julia Roberts
#22. [The] artisans [ ... ] men whose chief interest is their craft and not the market place.
Hannah Arendt
#23. I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#25. Fashion is capitalism, and it will be fixed by what the market demands.
Cameron Russell
#26. Often I'll go to the market, and women will say to me: "Let me see your shoes." And then I show them I'm wearing flip-flops.
Sarah Jessica Parker
#27. - and the mocking realization that money was just colorful crumpled paper, hardly different from a candy wrapper, the market itself little more than a casino.
Paul Theroux
#28. I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc.
Claire Messud
#29. Over the long run, the price of gold approximates the total amount of money in circulation divided by the size of the gold stock. If the market price of gold moves a long way from this level, it may indicate a buying or selling opportunity.
Ray Dalio
#30. It's in the nature of stock markets to go way down from time to time. There's no system to avoid bad markets. You can't do it unless you try to time the market, which is a seriously dumb thing to do. Conservative investing with steady savings without expecting miracles is the way to go.
Charlie Munger
#31. I believed in global warming after Al Gore's movie made money; the market had spoken.
Stephen Colbert
#32. I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them?
Dan Ariely
#33. Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.
John Maynard Keynes
#34. Anyone wanting a new house picks one from among those built on speculation or still in process of construction. The builder no longer works for his customers but for the market.
Karl Marx
#35. And then you might decide that the country can just spend maybe years or decades to regain that credit, or maybe give that county the support, the financial support that the market is not willing not do.
Rodrigo Rato
#36. Early every morning an old woman goes to the market to curse a grocery clerk, who curses back.
Mason Cooley
#37. To make good photographs, to express something, to contribute something to the world he lives in, and to contribute something to the art of photography besides imitations of the best photographers on the market today, that is basic training, the understanding of self.
Edward Steichen
#38. The fact that equities are being sold down, despite the lowest interest rates in recent history, simply means that the market doesn't see growth ahead for -very many businesses.
John C. Malone
#39. I take the market-efficiency hypothesis to be the simple statement that security prices fully reflect all available information.
Eugene Fama
#40. But, as soon as speculators become an important influence in the market, their business is to speculate on each others behaviour.
Joan Robinson
#41. I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.
Ryan Tedder
#42. Every once in a while, the market does something so stupid it takes your breath away
Jim Cramer
#43. Social media puts the "public" into PR and the "market" into marketing.
Chris Brogan
#44. Like to have a catalyst - reduces dependence on the market: Distressed debt inherently has a catalyst - maturity.
Seth Klarman
#45. We are far too critical of the fabulous system of plenty that has brought us the highest living standards on earth. The liberals have done a good job of undermining faith in the market system.
James Cook
#46. Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
#47. The best way to measure your investing success is not by whether you're beating the market but by whether you've put in place a financial plan and a behavioral discipline that are likely to get you where you want to go.
Benjamin Graham
#48. Society thrives on trade simply because trade makes specialization possible, and specialization increases output, and increased output reduces the cost in toil for the satisfactions men live by. That being so, the market place is a most humane institution.
Frank Chodorov
#49. 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
#50. Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement.
Carlos Ghosn
#51. The market insures that any quantity of money is capable of performing all the work required of a medium of exchange by adjusting its purchasing power to the underlying conditions of supply and demand.
Joseph Salerno
#52. Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot afford. The thing is, those apartments are already at the bottom of the market. 24 Our cities have become unaffordable to our poorest families, and this problem is leaving a deep and jagged scar on the next generation.
Matthew Desmond
#53. [The] impersonal process of the market ... can be neither just nor unjust, because the results are not intended or foreseen.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#54. The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum. This bird, boasted the market vendor, was once a duck that stretched its neck in hopes of becoming a goose, and now look!
it is too beautiful to eat.
Amy Tan
#55. The assumption that individual freedoms are guaranteed by freedom of the market and of trade is a cardinal feature of neoliberal thinking, and it has long dominated the US stance towards the rest of the world.
David Harvey
#56. Consumers do not buy one brand of soap, or coffee, or detergent. They have a repertory of four or five brands, and move from one to another. They almost never buy a brand which has not been admitted to their repertory during its first year on the market.
David Ogilvy
#57. I grow the vegetables my family eats. I grow enough, and we seldom buy from the market.
Kariya Munda
#59. The moral is that it is necssary to innovate, to predict the needs of the customers, and give him more. He that innovates and is lucky will take the market.
W. Edwards Deming
#60. Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.
Alexander Wang
#61. When each of us is free to work out his own economic destiny, within the framework of the market economy, the institution of private property, and the general rule of law, we will all improve our economic condition much faster than when we are ordered around by bureaucrats.
Henry Hazlitt
#62. GE is falling under the same cloud of the market as a whole. Investors are not focused on the positives that are occurring like corporate profitability.
James Fisher
#63. Everybody thinks that they're going to time the market, they're going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.
Barbara Corcoran
#64. I believe that our Vuse, the digital vaping cigarette, is a game-changing product, and I believe that it satisfies smokers significantly better than anything that is on the market today.
Susan Cameron
#65. The market is good when the local people are in it and believe in it and support it. That's what I want.
Harry Triguboff
#66. Profit maximization may be the 'end' but the means to achieve this end, is what matters, and that distinguishes a company in the corporate world and the market
Henrietta Newton Martin
#67. No one cares how valuable your product is if its addressable market is small. The key isn't so much the number of users as it is the dollar size of the market.
Jose Ferreira
#68. The sillier the market's behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor.
Benjamin Graham
#69. I am not in the market to create jobs, build an
empire, or leave a legacy; those are the positive fallout of successful
economic warfare. My prime objective is wealth creation.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#70. Why would you be curious as to where he found me, my lord? Are you in the market?
Renee Ahdieh
#71. He has definitely cornered the market on enigma. I hope Stella goes for the deeply layered type.
Tera Lynn Childs
#72. The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their own startups.
Sean Parker
#73. The mood in the market is one of a high level of caution. When you get some selling coming in, it's almost like a chain reaction - - it builds on itself.
Albert Goldman
#74. I love the market, it is my work, my play and my life.
Rene Rivkin
#75. Japan can't get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can't fire.
Howard Stringer
#76. The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only person using them.
Avinash Persaud
#77. Are we treating our body kindly by the way we eat, by the way we drink, by the way we work? Are we treating ourselves with enough joy and tenderness and peace? Or are we feeding ourselves with toxins that we get from the market - the spiritual, intellectual, entertainment market?
Nhat Hanh
#78. I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.
Kristin Hersh
#79. Bet on technical insights that help solve a big problem in a novel way, optimize for scale, not for revenue, and let great products grow the market for everyone.
Eric Schmidt
#80. Should thousands of animals suffer so that a new kind of lipstick or floor wax can be put on the market?
Peter Singer
#81. In practice, a good deal of the outcomes produced by the market reflect nothing more than luck - good or bad.
Robert Kuttner
#82. If you know your strength it never becomes a weakness. If the market knows your strength then it becomes a weakness.
Shailender Singh
#83. Oh shame on you, who call yourself a Christian! Do you not see that it is the grossest idolatry to speak of the market as though it were the rival of God?
Amitav Ghosh
#84. I am not willing to let the market-place determine the future of the animal kingdom.
Charlie Rose
#85. When we call a capitalist society a consumers' democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to the entrepreneurs and capitalists, can only be acquired by means of the consumers' ballot, held daily in the market-place.
Ludwig Von Mises
#86. I don't think that you want to see universities in any way trying to have any kind of quota system about political views, or views in general. You want the market to work in the way the market works.
Louis Menand
#87. The market is no god - it cannot solve every problem.
Eric Maskin
#88. The market system requires that people be committed and willing to work hard. Inherent with that is what I call a merit system, which I think gives people the greatest opportunity.
Lee R. Raymond
#89. Most people might just as well buy a share of the whole market, which pools all the information, than delude themselves into thinking they know something the market doesn't.
Merton Miller
#90. There is absolutely a gap in the market for thirty something women and, the more I look at it, the more I feel there needs to be a sense of ease and choice.
Phoebe Philo
#91. I don't think I'd enjoy running a public company. We haven't needed to go to the market to fund expansion.
Martin Naughton
#92. If, instead of playing the horses, an individual chooses to play the market, that is his own affair. Only he must understand that speculating in stocks is gambling, not investing.
Catherine Crook De Camp
#93. It is not with low prices-but on the contrary-it is with improved quality we cannot only hold the market, but improve it.
Hans Wilsdorf
#94. Studies consistently show that happy companies are way more productive, creative and service-oriented than unhappy ones. Therefore, the happy companies will beat the pants off the unhappy ones in the market place. The future of business is happy! It's inevitable.
Alexander Kjerulf
#95. No one doubts that pure libertarianism is simple, but that's just why it remains on the ideological fringe - because it boils down the most difficult questions in human affairs to a simple equation, a What Would the Market Do bumper sticker.
Ross Douthat
#96. The market is fast-moving, fast-growing. Things that are true today may not be true tomorrow.
Robin Li
#97. I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.
Jack Kemp
#98. An astute trader aims to enter the market during quiet times and take profits during wild times. That, of course, is the total opposite of how amateurs act: they jump in or out when prices begin to run, but grow bored and not interested when prices are sleepy.
Anonymous
#99. The rules when the giants play are the same as when the pygmies enter the market.
William O. Douglas
#100. The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.
Vaclav Klaus
