77 Selling Stocks Quotes
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Stocks are bought and sold on the market because both, the buyer and seller hope to benefit by their actions. Neither are there to do another a favour. — Thomas Phelps
If you own a portfolio of stocks, you must learn to sell the worst performers first and keep the best a little longer. — William O'Neil
Most stocks bought and sold on Wall Street are held in what's called 'street name.' — Max Keiser
[Once] a stock has been properly selected and has borne the test of time, it is only occasionally that there is any reason for selling it at all. — Philip Arthur Fisher
If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume. — Benjamin Graham
Most investors are too eager to sell a good position with a small profit rather than hold on for a larger gain. — Thomas Phelps
Stay with your most successful stock investments as long as they are increasing their earnings. — Thomas Phelps
When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don't know when you can find the bottom. — Peter Lynch
It's not always easy to do what's not popular, but that's where you make your money. Buy stocks that look bad to less careful investors and hang on until their real value is recognized. — John Neff
If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks. — John C. Bogle
Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well. — Warren Buffett
Markets can be volatile from time to time; however, stock prices follow earnings accumulation over the long term. — Naved Abdali
To make money in stocks, you need to have vision to see them, courage to buy them and patience to hold them. Patience is the rarest of the three. — Thomas Phelps
We are always willing to sell an existing holding at a profit or a loss, if we can find a better use for the funds. — Bill Ackman
Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing. — J. Paul Getty
Short Selling Stocks Quotes
- Far more money can be made by good stock selection, than by good market timing. — Thomas Phelps
- Fundamentals, value, price, successful investing — Howard Marks
- The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists. — Benjamin Graham
- What one buys in the stock market is 3/4 times more important that when one buys in the market. — Thomas Phelps
- Value investor, high risk, low prospective returns, high prices — Howard Marks
- Smart investing doesn't consist of buying good assets, but of buying assets well. — Howard Marks
- Diversified portfolio, significant loss, investment success — Howard Marks
Buying Stocks Quotes
If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out. — John Maynard Keynes
Much like Warren Buffett has said very famously - he doesn't buy technology stocks because he doesn't understand them- I will not buy consumer goods companies because I do not understand them. — Chamath Palihapitiya
Don’t buy a stock just because it has had a big decline from its high and is therefore ‘cheap’. A stock can be cheap and yet not be attractive. — Thomas Phelps
Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight. — Daniel Drew
The person that is buying a share of stock is convinced he knows something that the other person who's selling it to him does not know. There's no zero sum game in Wall Street. — Bernard Madoff
I believe the reasons for selling a stock should be harmonized with the reasons for buying it. — Francois Rochon
So the first thing I learned about how to get superior performance is not to buy stocks that are near their lows, but to buy stocks that are coming out of broad bases and beginning to make new highs. — William O'Neil
Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down. — Warren Buffett
The average man doesn't wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically which particular stock to buy or sell. He wants to get something for nothing. He does not wish to work. He doesn't even wish to have to think. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists. — Benjamin Graham
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More Selling Stocks Quotes
To be a very successful investor you have to be able to avoid some natural human tendencies to follow the herd. The stock market is going down every day your natural tendency is to want to sell. And the stock market is actually going up every day your tendency is to want to buy. So in bubbles you probably should be a seller. In busts you should probably be a buyer. You have to have that kind of discipline, you have to have a stomach to withstand the volatility of the stock market. — Bill Ackman
In its simplest form, investors sell losing stocks before the end of the current year, realizing losses that reduce the year’s income taxes. This behavior contributes to the so-called January effect where selling pressure in December further depresses the stock prices of the year’s losers, followed by a rebound and excessive performance in January. — Edward O. Thorp
In MBIA...we were short for seven years before the stock went from $73 to $3. — Bill Ackman
If the job has been correctly done when a common stock is purchased, the time to sell it is – almost never. — Philip Arthur Fisher
Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade. — Marlene Dietrich
When I'm bearish and I sell a stock, each sale must be at a lower level than the previous sale. When I am buying, the reverse is true. I must buy on a rising scale. I don't buy long stocks on a scale down, I buy on a scale up. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
What makes stocks valuable in the long run isn't the market. It's the profitability of the shares in the companies you own. As corporate profits increase, corporations become more valuable and sooner or later, their shares will sell for a higher price. — Peter Lynch
If you can't sleep at night because of your stock market position, then you have gone too far. If this is the case, then sell your position down to the sleeping level. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
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. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Each year we buy stocks and they go up, we sell them and then we try to buy something cheaper. — Walter Schloss
Over the long run, the price of gold approximates the total amount of money in circulation divided by the size of the gold stock. If the market price of gold moves a long way from this level, it may indicate a buying or selling opportunity. — Ray Dalio
Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. If you are susceptible to selling everything in a panic, you ought to avoid stocks and mutual funds altogether. — Peter Lynch
When a stock is selling at a discount to liquidation value per share, a near rock-bottom appraisal, it is frequently an attractive investment. — Seth Klarman
If I own stock in your company and you move offshore for tax reasons I'm selling your stock. There are enough investment choices here. — Mark Cuban
In an ideal world, the intelligent investor would hold stocks only when they are cheap and sell them when they become overpriced, then duck into the bunker of bonds and cash until stocks again become cheap enough to buy. — Benjamin Graham
When it comes to selling stocks, it is plain that nobody can sell unless somebody wants those stocks.If you operate on a large scale you will have to bear that in mind all the time. — Edwin Lefevre
Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorbs, consolidates and profits at the expense of others. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The public, as a whole, buys at the wrong time and sells at the wrong time. The average operator, when he sees two or three points profit, takes it; but, if a stock goes against him two or three points, he holds on waiting for the price to recover, with oftentimes, the result of seeing a loss of two or three points run into a loss of ten points. — Charles Dow
The notion that you have a blind trust but you can tell your trustee when to sell stock in it just doesn't make any sense. It means you have a seeing eye trust and not a blind trust. It's ridiculous. — Bill Frist
If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. — Norman Ralph Augustine
A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is: Who is gonna close? — Ben Affleck
When people give away stocks based on forced selling or fear that is usually a great opportunity. — Seth Klarman
Before selling, try to re-evaluate the company again and see where the stock sells in realtion to its book value. — Walter Schloss
An awful lot of people keep a stock too long because it gives them warm fuzzies – particularly when a contrarian stance has been vindicated. If they sell it, they lose bragging rights. — John Neff
I always had faith in the internet. I believed in it and thought it was obviously going to change the way the world worked. I really did not understand why others were selling their stock. As stock prices plunged, I just bought them, one after another, since I had the money. I guess I was rather lucky. — Takafumi Horie
Some people who don't like guns can't stand the idea of so many gun owners in one place (at gun shows) buying and selling their wicked products. It's how some communists feel when they visit the New York Stock Exchange. — Dave Kopel
Investors... can't pick stocks that are better than average. Stocks are a good thing to own over time. There's only two things you can do wrong: You can buy the wrong ones, and you can buy or sell them at the wrong time. And the truth is you never need to sell them. — Warren Buffett
Of all the mysteries of the stock exchange there is none so impenetrable as why there should be a buyer for everyone who seeks to sell. — John Kenneth Galbraith
There has been a little distress selling on the stock exchange. — Thomas W. Lamont
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 — Ziad K. Abdelnour
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. — Maria Bartiromo
Most people sell stock to pay taxes, but I didn't want to sell any stock. — Christie Hefner
I agree that actually taking existing stocks of ammo away from people is problematic, but they can certainly keep people from buying any new ones. They can hoard themselves. They can buy it up themselves. They can demand the manufacturers stop selling it or they can demand the manufacturers start making new ammo for which there is no gun. There are any number of ways they can do. But the point is, don't doubt their intention here. — Rush Limbaugh
I wouldn't want to manufacture cigarettes. But if I owned - we do own Costco. Do they sell them? Yes. So I don't have a problem owning stock in that. But I just wouldn't want to - I wouldn't want to do it myself. I basically think, if anything is sufficiently antisocial, society should do something about it. But that's a separate question. But - and I don't think there's any company that I have seen that's 100 percent pure. — Warren Buffett
In Sharia, nobody will be able to sell pork publicly. Nobody will be drinking alcohol. Pornography will be banned. Gambling will be banned. In terms of the economy, the wealth which is not tangible, either good or deficit, things like insurance, pension, stocks, shares, etc., they will be prohibited because you're supposed to deal with things, which are goods, which you can see, which you can trade with. — Anjem Choudary
If you're a wealthy heir with a trust fund, and you sell stocks, make your 10% gains since Donald Trump, and then you buy other stocks, you can avoid paying taxes. And if your accountant registers your wealth offshore in a Panamanian fund, like Russian kleptocrats do - and as more and more Americans do - you don't have to pay any tax at all, because it's not American income, it's foreign income in an enclave without an income tax. — Michael Hudson
Selling real estate isn't like selling stock. — Donald Trump
You know, when you sell real estate, that's not like going out and selling a stock. That takes a long time. — Donald Trump
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