105 Stock Exchange Quotes
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Famous Stock Exchange Quotes
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
Most stocks bought and sold on Wall Street are held in what's called 'street name.' — Max Keiser
The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. — Phillip Fisher
The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing. — Philip Arthur Fisher
Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight. — Daniel Drew
In the stock market as in poker, the money tends to move from stupid to intelligent hands. — Thomas Phelps
The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions. — Seth Klarman
The stock market really isn't a gamble, as long as you pick good companies that you think will do well, and not just because of the stock price. — Peter Lynch
In the stock market as in poker, one must only bet when the odds are heavily in your favour. — Thomas Phelps
The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote. — Ludwig von Mises
As in most markets, there are areas of overvaluation and of undervaluation, with the bulk of shares appearing to hover in the area of fair value relative to their prospects. — Bill Miller
The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage , in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy . — Karl Marx
The markets are like a weather; you may not like it but you have to bear it. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
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
Markets can be volatile from time to time; however, stock prices follow earnings accumulation over the long term. — Naved Abdali
Short Stock Exchange Quotes
- Markets rebounded quickly from morning jitters after the London Thursday terrorist bombing. — Cliff Stearns
- All of the stock market’s secrets are in plain sight. But few eyes can see them. — Thomas Phelps
- Every once in a while, the market does something so stupid it takes your breath away — Jim Cramer
- There are fads and styles in the stock market just as there are in women’s clothes. — Philip Arthur Fisher
- Today, basically, on Wall Street, the big money is made by taking risks. — Bernard Madoff
New York Stock Exchange Quotes
It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground. — T. Boone Pickens
The borrowers of America and all the world turn to New York....It is to the quotations on the New York Stock Exchange that men of affairs from Penobscot to Honolulu turn each morning to find how beats the pulse of prosperity and enterprise. — Charles A. Beard
First reporter to broadcast live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. — Maria Bartiromo
It is fundamentally important that Grasso resign so that the New York Stock Exchange can restore its moral authority. — Phil Angelides
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
Hidden behind the facade of pompous jargon and noble affections, there is more sheer larceny per square foot on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than any place else in the world. — Richard Ney
Private prison companies are now listed on the New York Stock exchange and are doing quite well in a time of economic recession (and depression in some communities). But that's just the tip of the iceberg. — Michelle Alexander
What's good for the United States is good for the New York Stock Exchange. But what's good for the New York Stock Exchange might not be good for the United States. — William McChesney Martin
I've been a woman in a man's world now for 30 years. I was the first person to broadcast from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and that was just all suits all the time. It didn't really affect me in any way. — Maria Bartiromo
Maybe one of the strangest opportunities was I got to ring the closing bell on the New York Stock Exchange. — Cassandra Peterson
Stock Market Quotes
Take Charge Of Your Financial Future. I believe investing small amounts each month in the stock market will give you financial freedom in the later years of your life. — Bo Sanchez
All my money is in a savings account. My dad has explained the stock market to me maybe 75 times. I still don't understand it. — John Mulaney
One of my great pleasures from the study of investing, finance, and economics is the discovery of insights about people and society. — Edward O. Thorp
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
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
Our experience over the last 20 years taught us that stock prices in the short term don’t always reflect what is occurring in the underlying companies, sometimes for long and frustrating periods of time. But in the long term, the market ultimately reflects the true value of a business. — Francois Rochon
I've heard it said that an economist is a portfolio manager who never marks to market. — Howard Marks
Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains. — John C. Bogle
A similar wisdom can be applied to market quotations. Once we understand that they can often be mirages, we can transcend them and come to see stocks simply as shares of businesses…which in the end is the one and only reality. — Francois Rochon
The classic view of the correct price of a common stock is that it is derived from the value of all the future earnings. These earnings are uncertain and subject to unknowable factors. — Edward O. Thorp
Stock Price Quotes
Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed. — Benjamin Graham
My philosophy is that all stocks are bad. There are no good stocks unless they go up in price. If they go down instead, you have to cut your losses fast Letting losses run is the most serious mistake made by most investors. — William O'Neil
Understanding the value of a business is more important than predicting its short-term stock price movements. — Gautam Baid
In commodities, when prices go up, demand goes down. In stocks, when prices go up, demand goes up. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. I do not feel there will be soon if ever a 50 or 60 point break from present levels, such as (bears) have predicted. I expect to see the stock market a good deal higher within a few months. — Irving Fisher
It's not earnings changes that cause stock price changes, but earnings changes that come as a surprise. — Howard Marks
Creating new pieces of paper and digital entries to paper over the deficiency in savings does not magically increase society’s physical capital stock; it only devalues the existing money supply and distorts prices. — Saifedean Ammous
The fact that a stock’s price has risen for the last ten days tell you nothing about what it will do tomorrow. — Howard S. Marks
There may be a recession in stock prices, but not anything in the nature of a crash. — Irving Fisher
I found the stock market very intriguing because prices used to fluctuate, I used to wonder why the price fluctuates. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
Stockbroker Quotes
The police can go to downtown Harlem and pick up a kid with a joint in the streets. But they can't go into the elegant apartments and get a stockbroker who's sniffing cocaine. — Noam Chomsky
We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land. — Aneurin Bevan
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
Bluntly put, there's no chance that your doctor, dentist, or attorney is a high-school dropout. Your stockbroker, however, just might be. — William J. Bernstein
Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
A vast industry of stockbrokers, financial planners, and investment advisers skims a fortune for themselves off the top in exchange for passing their clients' money on to people who, as a whole, cannot possibly outperform the market. — Michael Lewis
A stockbroker is someone who invests other people's money until it is all gone. — Woody Allen
I can relate to anyone. I can hang out with stoners, skaters, surfers, stockbrokers, lawyers, athletes, rappers. I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them. — Barry Zito
Good stockbrokers are a dime a dozen, but good shortstops are hard to find. — Charlie Finley
Stockbrokers aren't too interested in a stock you can sit there for five years with. — Walter Schloss
People Writing About Stock Exchange
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Philip Arthur Fisher |
50 | 121 |
 Bernard Madoff |
10 | 338 |
 Max Keiser |
56 | 16 |
 Seth Klarman |
170 | 622 |
 Peter Lynch |
133 | 1175 |
 Ludwig von Mises |
541 | 3009 |
More Stock Exchange Quotes
And the Arabs are the biggest owners now of media in the United States, okay, and over stock exchanges. And in many major U.S. cities they’re the majority owners. — Alex Jones
ETH is worthless. wall st will never use it. just pause and think. i had the same argument with Ron Gross who had the idea that mastercoin would become worth trillions because all stock exchanges would use it. no they won't. if the tech is good they reboot a private instance. — Adam Back
It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in an iron grip it gives birth to people who are no better than beasts, those stock-exchange people with greedy appetites beyond restraint. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
How do I define a work of art? It is not an asset in the stock-exchange sense, but a man's timid attempt to repeat the miracle that the simplest peasant girl is capable of at any time, that of magically producing life out of nothing. — Oskar Kokoschka
Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In him, these qualities may even be dangerous and revolting to an unusual degree; and perhaps the young stock-exchange Jew is altogether the most disgusting invention of mankind. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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
You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations. [Expressing his lack of confidence in reported regularities in the periodic classification of elements.] — Robert Bunsen
It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges. — John Maynard Keynes
A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics. — Max Weber
You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations. — Robert Bunsen
The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech. — John Mortimer
From coast to coast, the FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission have ensnared people not only at hedge funds, but at technology and pharmaceutical companies, consulting and law firms, government agencies, and even a major stock exchange. — Preet Bharara
The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men. — Billie Jean King
The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange . — Bob Brown
A man is robbed on the Stock Exchange, just as he is killed in a war, by people whom he never sees. — Alfred Capus
Nothing tells in the long run like a good judgment, and no sound judgment can remain with the man whose mind is disturbed by the mercurial changes of the stock exchange. It places him under an influence akin to intoxication. What is not, he sees, and what he sees, is not. — Andrew Carnegie
In Paris there are two dens, one for thieves, the other for murderers. The den of thieves is the Stock Exchange; the den of murderers is the Courthouse. — Petrus Borel
The stock exchange is a poor substitute for the Holy Grail. — Joseph A. Schumpeter
The playing field is more sacred than the stock exchange, more blessed than Capital Hill or the vaults of Fort Knox. The diamond and the gridiron -- and, to a lesser degree, the court, the rink, the track, and the ring -- embody the American dream of Eden. — Lewis H. Lapham
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
The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires. — Robert Louis Stevenson
People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer operative, ships and automobiles will soon cease to run right, the engineer's slide rule and the computations of banks and stock exchanges will forfeit validity and authority, and chaos will ensue. — Hermann Hesse
There has been a little distress selling on the stock exchange. — Thomas W. Lamont
Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. It is unrelenting; the news, the stock-exchange reports, and the weather forecast are about the only things spared. — Jean Baudrillard
Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing. — Andre Malraux
Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars on a general's sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds. Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter-related, had a meaning: my exile. — Jean Genet
We think that in Mexico, online trading of shares and financial instruments is not going to be as important as it is in the U.S. On days that there is a banking holiday in the U.S., you hardly see any movement here on the stock exchange. — Carlos Slim
The globally constituted accident can be compared to what people who work at the stock exchange call 'systemic risk'. — Paul Virilio
To really observe the Sabbath in our day and age! To cease for a whole day from all business, from all work, amidst the frenzied hurry-scurry of our age! To close the stock exchanges, the stores, the factories - how would it be possible? The pulse of life would stop beating and the world perish! The world perish? To the contrary, it would be saved. — Samson Raphael Hirsch
The term "rock" has, unfortunately, become appropriated by four-year-old girls and accountants. An accountant does something amazingly well on the stock exchange and his buddies high-five him: He's a rock star! A four-year-old girl learned to ride a bicycle: She's a rock star! — Ian Astbury
Trading is a small part of the work of the stock exchanges. They are really to do with financial speculation, and they speculate on the value of the yen, the dollar, the pound, the franc, or the euro, at any given time. Billions are lost and billions are made by this speculation, and that's what the stock exchanges are about. They are for greedy minds. — Benjamin Creme
I was working in financing. I was buying and selling stocks for a market-maker on the options floor at the Pacific Stock Exchange. He took me under his wing and was training me to take over his accounts. That's the career I had embarked on, at the time. — Tim Kang
Friday's turmoil in global markets looks set to continue to exert a dominant force on the foreign exchange markets. The usual trend when U.S. stocks fall is that the U.S. dollar suffers. — Craig Ferguson
Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes, the guy who comes out on the balcony with that big hammer slams it on the head of the person who lost the most money that day. — George Carlin
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