Top 28 Speculator Quotes
#1. A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.
Christina Stead
#2. The speculator who insists on trying to profit from daily minor movements will never be in a position to take advantage of the next important change marketwise when it occurs.
Anonymous
#3. Speculator [10w]
A speculator's eyes light up alternately by greed and concupiscence.
Beryl Dov
#4. Human nature, gentleman. It is original sin that leads men to misfortune, every time. I am a speculator in the market, gentlemen, and that is part of God's plan. Men only learn through suffering. So I punish human weakness, and God rewards me.
Edward Rutherfurd
#5. A speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware.
John Maynard Keynes
#6. If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
Bernard Baruch
#7. If
you're an investor, you're looking on what the asset is going to do, if
you're a speculator, you're commonly focusing on what the price of the
object is going to do, and that's not our game.
Warren Buffett
#8. Like so many great American fortunes, the Rosewater pile was accumulated in the beginning by a humorless, constipated Christian farm boy turned speculator and briber during and after the Civil War.
Kurt Vonnegut
#10. The mathematical expectation of the speculator is zero.
Louis Bachelier
#11. Speculation is a hard and trying business, and a speculator must be on the job all the time or he'll soon have no job to be on.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#13. Traditionally the investor has been the man with patience and the courage of his convictions who would buy when the harried or disheartened speculator was selling.
Benjamin Graham
#14. A speculator gambles that a stock will go up in price because somebody else will pay even more for it.
Benjamin Graham
#16. Property has ever been a fluid concept
just ask the wife of the Wall Street speculator who writes her party invitations on Marie Antoinette's escritoire.
Anna Godbersen
#17. Clergyman: A ticket speculator outside the gates of Heaven.
H.L. Mencken
#18. A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
Bernard Baruch
#19. As a speculator you must embrace disorder and chaos.
Louis Bacon
#20. Only suckers worry. But he can knock the worry if he takes a Scotch and soda. The hell with what the doctor says. So he rings for one and the steward comes sleepily, and as he drinks it, the speculator is not a sucker now; except for death.
Ernest Hemingway,
#21. I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.
Mary Roach
#22. Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality.
Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore.
The two are rarely compatible.
Neil Gaiman
#23. David I knock you out! - While pointing to the camera with a smirk.
Vitali Klitschko
#24. I'm never wrong? Who besides Republican presidents and evil masterminds can say that with a straight face?
Josh Lanyon
#25. When we are at our weakest, God is at his best, ready to step in and say to us as he said to Hagar, "Do not be afraid" (Genesis 21:17).
Ann Spangler
#26. We never learn to value what is simple; what is difficult is worthy to us. But, the beauty of life is in the simplicity.
Debasish Mridha
#27. A pie so delicate, so luscious, that I hope to be propped up on my dying bed and fed a generous portion. Then I think that I should refuse outright to die, for life would be too good to relinquish.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#28. Factory farming, of course, does not cause all the world's problems, but is is remarkable just how many of them intersect there.
Jonathan Safran Foer
