Quotes About Timing The Market

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

Joel Greenblatt

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

Nick Murray

#3. 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

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

Henrique M. Simoes

#5. In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.

Dario Argento

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. You know what the problem that animal activists sometimes have? They only concentrate on the heartbreaking things to the point where the general public thinks, 'Oh, here comes those animal folks again and I'm going to hear all the things I don't want to hear.'

Betty White

#9. 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

#10. When human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the proper end of all laws, and so become null and void.

Alexander Hamilton

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

Venita VanCaspel

#12. To find the Tao, there is nowhere you need to search. If it is not inside you, it is not the Tao.

Confucius

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Daniel Kahneman

#18. Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.

John Travolta

#19. 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