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Everyone believes something is risky, unwillingness to buy, price falls — Howard Marks

Market crashes and recessions create more millionaires than any other time. The catch: You have to be prepared AND financially educated. — Jaspreet Singh

I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea. — Federico Garcia Lorca

There may be a recession in stock prices, but not anything in the nature of a crash. — Irving Fisher

The typical conditions for the birth of a bull market are here: you have a changed country, you have a deep fall in growth and everybody is perplexed by the rise of stocks. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

Money is made in good times. Wealth is made in great times. Generational wealth is made in bad times. Don't fear a market crash. Just be ready for it. The upside can be very big. — Patrick Bet-David

A recession is like a Black Friday Sale for investors. — Jaspreet Singh

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

The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions. — Seth Klarman

We are going to see the treasury market collapse. Then the stock market. I don't believe anything Powell or the Government says. Protect your assets now! — Douglas Macgregor

Risk arises when markets go so high that prices imply losses rather than the potential rewards they should. — Howard S. Marks

Every once in a while, the market does something so stupid it takes your breath away — Jim Cramer

Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. — John Templeton

You had a lot of novice investors who got into the market looking for easy money, without any regard to the fundamentals. These stocks were running on fumes. — Bernard Madoff

We need to respect the market, with a level of caution too. It goes up and down in cycles. And especially the fact that it doesn't always make sense. — Changpeng Zhao

Short Market Crash Quotes

  • Smart money is just dumb money that’s been through a crash. — Naval Ravikant
  • A bull market is like sex. It feels best just before it ends. — Warren Buffett
  • Investment risk, high prices, optimism, skepticism, risk aversion — Howard Marks
  • Diversified portfolio, significant loss, investment success — Howard Marks
  • Value investor, high risk, low prospective returns, high prices — Howard Marks
  • Too much money, risky and new, asset prices, prospective returns, safety — Howard Marks
  • The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets. — John D. Rockefeller
  • Failure to anticipate co-movement, investment error — Howard Marks
  • Investor psychology, priced anywhere, fundamentals — Howard Marks
Market crash quote Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first.
Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first.

Stock Market Crash Quotes

Once the smoke of the market crash clears off, you know, the Internet will pick back up and go. Take a look at what's happening to some of the big companies like eBay and Yahoo, the publicly traded stocks. You know, they're all coming back up off the mat now. — Michael Nesmith

My father was a very successful businessman, but he was ruined in the stock market crash. A big stockbroker jumped out the window and fell on his pushcart. — Jackie Mason

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

Market crash quote Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put it in the teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.

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

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.' — Joe Biden

The only thing that looks good is the stock market, but if you raise interest rates even a little bit, that's going to come crashing down. — Donald Trump

Market crash quote Marketing is no longer about the stuff you make, but about the stories you tell.
Marketing is no longer about the stuff you make, but about the stories you tell.

The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of economic policymakers, particularly central bankers. — Ben Bernanke

When my book 'Rich Dad's Prophecy' was released in 2002, most financial newspapers and magazines trashed it because I discussed a looming stock market crash. — Robert Kiyosaki

An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it. — Matthew Barney

I think the stock market is a very dangerous place to be at the present time. In fact, the stock market today is almost identical to where it was in October 2007 and then there was a $7 trillion crash and before that in March 2000. — David Stockman

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More Market Crash Quotes

Starting in the wake of the 2008 GFC global financial crisis, market observers have warned of a crash in the bond market. initially, it was believed that the trillions printed to bail out the banks would cause inflation and, therefore, a flight from bonds. — Max Keiser

Market crash quote The stock market is a device for transferring money from the
The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.

Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going better. But the crashes are much more spectacular. — Lawrence Summers

Market crash quote Sell the problem you solve, not the product.
Sell the problem you solve, not the product.

On October 16, 1929, Fisher proudly proclaimed in the New York Times that stocks had reached a “permanently high plateau. The stock market was to crash starting October 24, 1929, and as the Depression deepened, it would not be until the mid-1950s, years after Fisher died, that the stock market would get back to the “permanently high plateau Fisher had proclaimed in 1929. — Saifedean Ammous

One of the important factors behind the fluctuation between bull and bear markets, between booms and crashes and bubbles, is that investor memory has to fail us – and fail universally – in order for the extremes to be reached. — Howard Marks

One doesn't like instabilities in markets; they may be damaging, but probably not fatal, as the October '87 crash showed. It turned out to be essentially inconsequential. So if that's true, I'm not very worried about the welfare of those who are investing any more than I am about the welfare of those who go into casinos. — Kenneth Arrow

Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929. — James Buchan

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have passed the worst and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover. — Herbert Hoover

A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market. — Ron Chernow

Greece bankruptcy will trigger a market crash. My advice: Buy Bitcoin & Gold Both will rise when the markets crash. — Kim Dotcom

What we need to understand is, one, that there are market failures; and two, that there are things like asset bubbles and irrational exuberance. There are periods of booms, bubbles, and manias. These things, if left to themselves, can lead to crashes, to busts, to panics. — Nouriel Roubini

Given the nature of market, the chance of a crash is always greater than the chance of an overnight runaway euphoria. — Sayings

When I bought my house in L.A., that was the best business decision I ever made, until the housing market crashed, and it became the worst business decision I ever made. — Michael Ealy

I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea. Never as then, amid suicides, hysteria, and groups of fainting people, have I felt the sensation of real death, death without hope, death that is nothing but rottenness, for the spectacle was terrifying but devoid of greatness... I felt something like a divine urge to bombard that whole canyon of shadow, where ambulances collected suicides whose hands were full of rings. — Federico Garcia Lorca

Destabilization and turmoil,[Steven] Lerner hopes, will also crash the stock market, isolating the banking class and allowing for a transfer of power. — Rush Limbaugh

When the stock market crash, a lot of people realized that the American dream was not all it was cracked up to be. They'd been living for this thing and it was kind of a façade. It wasn't real. — Dominic Balli

It was not hard to persuade people that the market was sound; as always in such times they asked only that the dispiriting voices of doubt be muted and that there should be tolerably frequent expressions of confidence. — John Kenneth Galbraith

I was in the equity-trading department at Merrill Lynch. I was there in 1987 when the market crashed. — Terence Winter

Repealing drug laws would remove the risks involved with producing and distributing drugs, bringing 'street prices' crashing down (it's estimated that a 'spoon' of heroin would cost about a quarter in the free market), thereby eradicating any incentive that criminals might have to compete with legitimate businesses, and greatly reducing if not eliminating altogether any economic reason to 'push' drugs on children. — L. Neil Smith

In the early days of the crash it was widely believed that Jesse L. Livermore, a Bostonian with a large and unquestionably exaggerated reputation for bear operations, leading a syndicate that was driving the market down. — John Kenneth Galbraith

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