Top 1200 Financial Markets Quotes & Sayings

Just being able to trade financial commodities is a serious limitation because financial commodities represent only a tiny fraction of the reality of the real commodity exposure picture. We need to be active in the underlying physical commodity markets in order to understand and make prices.

I have great, great confidence in our capital markets and in our financial institutions. Our financial institutions, banks and investment banks, are strong. Our capital markets are resilient. They're efficient. They're flexible.

Upon graduation, believe it or not, I had no job. I had no interviews. I had no prospects. I had no worries. What I did have, I had passion. I had enormous passion. I had passion for financial markets. I had fallen in love with financial markets.

Well, as you know, we're working through a difficult period in our financial markets right now, as we work off some of the past excesses. But the American people can remain confident in the soundness and the resilience of our financial system.

In certain circumstances, financial markets can affect the so-called fundamentals which they are supposed to reflect. When that happens, markets enter into a state of dynamic disequilibrium and behave quite differently from what would be considered normal by the theory of efficient markets. Such boom/bust sequences do not arise very often, but when they do, they can be very disruptive, exactly because they affect the fundamentals of the economy.

Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.

James Goldsmith is important because he used the power of the markets to break up the cosy patrician elite that ran Britain and its industries in the 1950s and '60s. In the process, Goldsmith helped transfer power in this country away from politics and towards the markets and the financial sector.

The generally accepted theory is that financial markets tend towards equilibrium, and...discount the future correctly. I operate using a different theory, according to which financial markets cannot possibly discount the future correctly because the do not merely discount the future; they help to shape it.

The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.

It's important to recognize the vital role that the financial markets play in our economy and that so many of you are contributing to. To function effectively those markets and the men and women who shape them have to command trust and confidence, because we all rely on the market's transparency and integrity. So even if it may not be 100 percent true, if the perception is that somehow the game is rigged, that should be a problem for all of us, and we have to be willing to make that absolutely clear.

Financial markets need to become less, not more, efficient.

Without doubt, timely and democratic access to financial and market information contributes to smoothly functioning financial markets.

Making economic policy isn't a popularity contest, especially when financial markets are in a panic.

If the EU and the US can cooperate successfully on regulating financial markets, everyone else will follow.

Trillions of dollars every day are being exchanged around the world in all of the financial markets.

You can't look back at the worst financial crisis of our lifetimes that started in 2008 and not have some important lessons about the critical nature of oversights in financial markets and institutions.

The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.

Dan Loeb has become a billionaire searching out value in financial markets.

Creating a regulatory system that reflects the modern-day realities of financial markets is not as difficult as it may appear.

I had always been interested in markets - specifically, the theory that in financial markets, goods will trade at a fair value only when everyone has access to the same information.

I don't want to drive the markets crazy. I don't want to create trouble, but rather order and rules and norms. We have to struggle against financial excesses, those who speculate with sovereign debt, those who develop financial products which have done so much harm.

Sometimes it is my impression that most politicians are still not aware of being under the control of the financial markets and are even governed by them.

The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions and to contain systemic risks in financial markets.

There's been a dichotomy in the world financial markets over the last 30 years between the developed markets and the developing markets. Brazil, for example, always had to pay a lot more in interest to borrow money than governments in developed nations.

To be the best CEO you can be, you have to be passionate about the business you're running. And I have true passion for the financial markets and the financial industry.

Do not trust financial market risk models. Despite the predilection of some analysts to model the financial markets using sophisticated mathematics, the markets are governed by behavioral science, not physical science.

I think we will have continuing danger from these markets and that we will have repeats of the financial crisis - [they] may differ in details but there will be significant financial downturns and disasters attributed to this regulatory gap, over and over, until we learn from experience

Financial innovation can be highly dangerous, though almost no one will tell you this. New financial products are typically created for sunny days and are almost never stress-tested for stormy weather. Securitization is an area that almost perfectly fits this description; markets for securitized assets such as subprime mortgages completely collapsed in 2008 and have not fully recovered. Ironically, the government is eager to restore the securitization markets back to their pre-collapse stature.

The financial markets tend to be just a backdrop for a novel, for a heist or something that isn't necessarily integral to it. On the whole, I don't think the financial world has been well served by novels.

Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.

A lot has been done to improve safety and soundness and confidence in financial markets and financial institutions, a lot of which was necessary.

I did get introduced to the financial markets while I was in college. And I think I learned also how to sort of filter out all of the nonrational, or nonsensible, noise and sort of concentrate on what matters, and that's really what markets are about.

Our financial markets work best when they are competitive, fair, and transparent.

In Germany it is good if as many people as possible join initiatives and peaceful demonstrations against the rule of the financial markets. Worshipping the unfettered freedom of global markets has brought the world to the brink of ruin. We now need social and ecological rules for the market economy.

There are no free financial markets in America or, for that matter, anywhere in the Western word, and few, if any, free markets of any other kind.

The dark comes before dawn. The financial markets are under great pressure because of the lack of leadership during the transition period.

Reversion to the mean is the iron rule of the financial markets.

I think financial markets only look after their own interests.

There is little room for complacency, and it is important to guard against sporadic volatility in financial markets.

Our economy is increasingly dependent on the success and integrity of the financial markets.

The thing about innovation in financial markets is they're always building on what has come before. It's a natural process.

One of the most constant aspects of American life is change - and nowhere is it more evident than in our financial markets.

The country is indebted, cloaked by an instability that discards the possibility of development and leaves it hostage to foreign financial markets.

The impact on the broader economy and financial markets of the problems in the subprime markets seems likely to be contained.

The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.

Financial markets are supposed to swing like a pendulum: They may fluctuate wildly in response to exogenous shocks, but eventually they are supposed to come to rest at an equilibrium point and that point is supposed to be the same irrespective of the interim fluctuations. Instead, as I told Congress, financial markets behaved more like a wrecking ball, swinging from country to country and knocking over the weaker ones. It is difficult to escape the conclusion that the international financial system itself constituted the main ingredient in the meltdown process.

Well, the U.S., of course, is the world's largest economy. It's about a quarter of the world's output. It's also home to many of the largest financial institutions and financial markets.

To restore confidence in our markets and our financial institutions so they can fuel continued growth and prosperity, we must address the underlying problem. The federal government must implement a program to remove these illiquid assets that are weighing down our financial institutions and threatening our economy.

Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.

The current system is organized around financial values over life values. We need to shift that locus of power down to the community level because the financial markets recognize only money and thereby only financial values.

A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.

Even in financial markets, the concept of market efficiency does not hold.

The 2.5 billion adults [around the world] without access to financial services are disproportionately women and young people. There are at least 44 million unbanked or underbanked people in the United States, so clearly financial inclusion is needed in all markets.

It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets are those that are animated by both fear and greed at the same time.

I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional.

Ultimately savings have to go somewhere and I think they will find their home in financial markets and within financial markets, a large part in equity.

I put forward a pretty general theory that financial markets are intrinsically unstable. That we really have a false picture when we think about markets tending towards equilibrium.

The financial crisis involved significant failures in the functioning, regulation, and supervision of OTC derivatives markets.

Taxing financial markets, promoting research and development, and mobilising investments: that means learning our lessons from the financial market crisis and changing our focus.

The efficiency, credibility, and liquidity of the financial markets have been foundational to the largest economy in the world.