Top 1200 Stock Market Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.

Never invest emergency savings in the stock market.

The stock market is a discounter of all known information.

The stock market lives in the present. I live for the unseen.

China's stock market is inextricably tied to politics.

Strong credit markets give companies borrowing options to boost their stock prices while making bearish investors scramble to close out trades before losing any more money, both of which then push the stock market even higher and continue the self-reinforcing bullish cycle.

I was 5 years old when the stock market crashed; I lost everything.

The correct method for tracking the stock market is to use semilogarithmic chart paper, since the market's history is sensibly related only on a percentage basis. The investor is concerned with percentage gain or loss, not the number of points traveled in a market average. Arithmetic scale is quite acceptable for tracking hourly waves. Channeling techniques work acceptably well on arithmetic scale with shorter term moves.

It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all of his mistakes. They say there are two sides to everything. But there is only one side to the stock market; and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side. It took me longer to get that general principle fixed firmly in my mind than it did most of the more technical phases of the game of stock speculation.

It is indeed true that the stock market can forecast the business cycle.

The only thing that's doing well in America is the stock market.

It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational. Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.

Who owns the future? This is the question at the heart of every stock market.

You pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus.

It can be shown that maximum diversification is achieved by holding each stock in proportion to its value to the entire market (italics added)... Hindsight plays tricks on our minds... often distorts the past and encourages us to play hunches and outguess other investors, who in turn are playing the same game. For most of us, trying to beat the market leads to disastrous results... our actions lead to much lower returns than can be achieved by just staying in the market.

Since when was the stock market an accurate barometer of anything?

If you don't follow the stock market, you are missing some amazing drama.

The American public historically was really not part of the stock market.

Even from the very beginning, I didn't put any money in the stock market.

I hate weekends because there is no stock market.

All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.

It is what people actually did in the stock market that counted - not what they said they were going to do.

The market has a simple way of whittling all excessive pride and overblown egos down to size. After all, the whole idea is to be completely objective and recognize what the marketplace is telling you, rather than try to prove that the thing you said or did yesterday or six weeks ago was right. The fastest way to take a bath in the stock market or go broke is to try to prove that you are right and the market is wrong.

The stock market can be fooled, but not forever.

Successful investors like stocks better when they’re going down. When you go to a department store or a supermarket, you like to buy merchandise on sale, but it doesn’t work that way in the stock market. In the stock market, people panic when stocks are going down, so they like them less when they should like them more. When prices go down, you shouldn’t panic, but it’s hard to control your emotions when you’re overextended, when you see your net worth drop in half and you worry that you won’t have enough money to pay for your kids’ college.

The stock market is people.

I grade my stocks. I'm what they call a quant, one of the geeks of the stock market.

I have invested in the stock market since I was very young.

The stock market is an exploitable market where being right means you get rich and you help the overall system error-correct which makes it harder to be right (the mechanism pushes prices close to random, they're not quite random but few can exploit the non-randomness).

We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I continue to believe that short-term market forecasts are poison and should be kept locked up in a safe place, away from children and also from grown-ups who behave in the market like children.

Stock market risk is ok, but not for Social Security.

The studio system reminds me of the stock market.

The stock market has predicted nine of the last five recessions.

The stock market is a giant distraction from the business of investing.

I think businesses live longer that are on the stock market.

Robinhood exists so that everyone can share in the stock market's wealth creation.

I just made a killing in the stock market -- I shot my broker.

The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient.

As soon as you think you've got the key to the stock market, they change the lock.

I just do not understand the stock market. It is like reading Russian.

I don't invest in the stock market, but I have pension funds - some in America and the UK.

SM is an abbreviation of both stock market and sadomasochism-- and there are those who think they are one and the same.

Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections.

When you buy enough stocks to give you control of a target company, that's called mergers and acquisitions or corporate raiding. Hedge funds have been doing this, as well as corporate financial managers. With borrowed money you can take over or raid a foreign company too. So, you're having a monopolistic consolidation process that's pushed up the market, because in order to buy a company or arrange a merger, you have to offer more than the going stock-market price. You have to convince existing holders of a stock to sell out to you by paying them more than they'd otherwise get.

People are putting their money into treasuries because they worry that the risk of putting their money into the bond market, the stock market or even the money markets is very high.

Genius is a rising stock market.

The stock market and economy are two different things.

As far as you are concerned, the stock market does not exist. Ignore it.

I really believe that you cannot use the stock market as a proxy for the economy.

Remember that the stock market is manic-depressive.

I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful.

The traditional thinking has been that the stock market likes certainty.

Anyone with a pension or retirement is an investor in the stock market.

It's a racket. Those stock market guys are crooked.

The stock market has spoiled more appetites than bad cooking.

I never hesitate to tell a man that I am bullish or bearish. But I do not tell people to buy or sell any particular stock. In a bear market all stocks go down and in a bull market they go up.

A hyperactive stock market is the pickpocket of enterprise.

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.

The stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing.

The stock market clearly values companies that can deliver disruptive innovation.