Stock Market Quotes

1. "I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market."
Author: Anita Roddick

2. "But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth."
Author: Anita Roddick

3. "I carried with me into the West End Bar, the White Horse Tavern, a long list of things I would never do: I would never have my hair set in a beauty parlor. I would never move to a suburb and bake cakes or make casseroles. I would never go to a country club dance, although I did like the paper lanterns casting rainbow colors on the terrace. I would never invest in the stock market. I would never play canasta. I would never wear pearls. I would love like a nursling but I would never go near a man who had a portfolio or a set of golf clubs or a business or even a business suit. I would only love a wild thing. I didn't care if wild things tended to break hearts. I didn't care if they substituted scotch for breakfast cereal. I understood that wild things wrote suicide notes to the gods and were apt to show up three hours later than promised. I understood that art was long and life was short."
Author: Anne Roiphe

4. "Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches."
Author: Arthur Levitt

5. "When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed."
Author: Benoit Mandelbrot

6. "Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation, and sadness. And our public life lies in shambles, shot through with icy cynicism and paralyzing pessimism. To put it bluntly, beneath the record-breaking stock markets on Wall Street and bipartisan budget-balancing deals in the White House lurk ominous clouds of despair across this nation."
Author: Cornel West

7. "Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight."
Author: Daniel Drew

8. "The other are the strategic, so-called strategic stocks that the United States and the other Western industrial countries have, which could put in as much as four million barrels a day of oil into the market pretty quickly."
Author: Daniel Yergin

9. "Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public."
Author: Gavyn Davies

10. "Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception."
Author: George Soros

11. "I am not criticizing investing in the stock market; I am an investor."
Author: Grace Napolitano

12. "I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading."
Author: Harper Lee

13. "The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress."
Author: Hendrik Willem Van Loon

14. "...and with this reminder other things came to her -- how strange it was that, with all allowance for their merit, it should befall some people to be so inordinantly valued, quoted, as they said in the stock-market, so high, and how still stranger, perhaps, that there should be cases in which, for some reason, one didn't mind the so frequently marked absence in them of the purpose really to represent their price."
Author: Henry James

15. "Recent economic data shows that our economy is robust, growing and headed in the right direction. The numbers don't lie. Americans are currently enjoying falling gas prices, low unemployment, increased job creation, and a stock market that has reached an all-time high."
Author: J. D. Hayworth

16. "It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining."
Author: James Hogg

17. "The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my estimation."
Author: James Stockdale

18. "I made a graph of my emotions, a chart, and when I looked it over I was amazed to notice that the day Agatha broke up with me looked identical to the stock market crash of 1929. I thought I was the Irving Fisher of love."
Author: Jarod Kintz

19. "The stock market is overpriced. Everything is overpriced. Junk is king."
Author: Jeremy Grantham

20. "I will never be in the stock market. It's just gambling. I'm a gambler, but I'll gamble on the practicality of things."
Author: Jeremy Renner

21. "The stock market to me was like a video game. When it went off, it was like turning the game off. It wasn't something I'd think about until I'd turn the machine on again."
Author: Jo Nesbo

22. "I heard that you did not have a judge to interview this month in the Bulletin, so I thought I'd help out. Besides, with the Stock Market tanking recently, it reminded me of the good old days."
Author: Joseph Force Crater

23. "Unfortunately, our stock is somehow not well understood by the markets. The market compares us with generic companies. We need to look at Biocon as a bellwether stock. A stock that is differentiated, a stock that is focused on R&D, and a very, very strong balance sheet with huge value drivers at the end of it."
Author: Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

24. "Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies."
Author: Marc Andreessen

25. "If the stock market exists, so must previous lives."
Author: Margaret Atwood

26. "Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets."
Author: Maria Bartiromo

27. "For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe."
Author: Mark Skousen

28. "I often hear skeptics say that, if psychic behavior was real, the psychics would be playing the stock markets or the ponies. In my experience, many of them do. There is, in fact, a kind of secret level of activity in which psychics consult to major corporations and businesses. People seem embarrassed to admit this activity but it takes place, just as you'd expect it to."
Author: Michael Crichton

29. "Under Reagan came the idea of putting your pension plan in the stock market, which wasn't a guaranteed pension."
Author: Michael Moore

30. "What I put in the stock market, I don't have to touch in my lifetime. I want to live off my bonds. I want to be that safe."
Author: Monica Seles

31. "As for now, we must not forget who would have to exchange the land? those villages which live more than others on irrigation, on orange and fruit plantations, in houses built near water wells and pumping stations, on livestock and property and easy access to markets."
Author: Moshe Sharett

32. "If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice."
Author: Norman Ralph Augustine

33. "Life is like the stock market. Some days you're up. Some days you're down. And some days you feel like something the bull left behind."
Author: Paula Wall

34. "Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included."
Author: Pola Negri

35. "How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure but it is news when the stock market loses two points?"
Author: Pope Francis

36. "In addition to a soaring stock market, 6.6 million jobs have been created since tax relief measures went into effect in 2003. Our deficit situation has also improved as tax revenues have increased at double-digit rates over the past two years."
Author: Randy Neugebauer

37. "I hate weekends because there is no stock market."
Author: Rene Rivkin

38. "My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since."
Author: Rich Sommer

39. "Hermes has threatened me with slow mail. lousy Internet service and a horrible stock market if i publish this story. I hope he is just bluffing."
Author: Rick Riordan

40. "If only one person were perfectly informed there could never be a general crisis. But the only perfectly informed person is God, and he does not play the stock market."
Author: Robert Skidelsky

41. "After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation."
Author: Ron Chernow

42. "Do I want to see people take their Social Security payments and put them into private accounts, open up an eTrade account and go into the stock market? Absolutely not."
Author: Sean Duffy

43. "They said the stock market crashed, or something, but since I'm deaf I didn't hear it (ha-ha)."
Author: Stephen King

44. "I'm a rich man, Brick, yep, I'm a mighty rich man. Y'know how much I'm worth? Guess, Brick! Guess how much I'm worth! Close to ten million in cash an' blue chip stocks, outside, mind you, of twenty-eight thousand acres of the richest land this side of the valley Nile! But a man can't buy his life with it, he can't buy back his life with it when his life has been spent, that's one thing not offered in the Europe fire-sale or in the American markets or any markets on earth, a man can't buy his life with it, he can't buy back his life when his life is finished...Big Daddy: (pp. 65)"
Author: Tennessee Williams

45. "In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market."
Author: Tony Snow

46. "Even from the very beginning, I didn't put any money in the stock market."
Author: Trey Parker

47. "We need a moderately-priced stock market… The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But, unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do. For the investor, a too-high purchase price for the stock of an excellent company can undo the effects of a subsequent decade of favorable business developments."
Author: Warren Buffet

48. "I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years."
Author: Warren Buffett

49. "Funny how so many rookies out there still judge condition of the US economy on the rigged "stock market". I frankly find it hilarious."
Author: Ziad K. Abdelnour

50. "Make your money on the buy, not the sell; this is true in any investment whether it's real estate, business, or the stock market."
Author: Ziad K. Abdelnour

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