Inspirational Stock Market Quotes & Sayings
Best selected inspirational stock market quotes by some famous people of their times. These quotes about stock market will motivate and inspire you and you will be much wiser about the subject.
Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who’ve been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage. Peter Lynch
Seek advice on risk from the wealthy who still take risks, not friends who dare nothing more than a football bet. – J. Paul Getty
The stock market is a giant distraction from the business of investing. John C. Bogle
Your investment belongs to the market and your profits belong to you. ― Vijay Kedia
As I have said before, the daily machinations of the stock market are like a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. John C. Bogle
Perhaps there is no better illustration of the ethical impotency of the modern church than its failure to deal with the evils and ethical problems of stock manipulation. Millions in property values are created by pure legerdemain. Stock dividends, watered stock and excessive rise in stock values, due to the productivity of the modern machine, are accepted by the church without murmur if only a slight return is made by the beneficiaries through church philanthropies [1927]. ― Reinhold Niebuhr
I really believe that you cannot use the stock market as a proxy for the economy. Howard Schultz
Owning stocks is like having children – don’t get involved with more than you can handle. Peter Lynch
We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different. Jeffrey Sachs
All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the minuses from the stocks that don’t work out. Peter Lynch
Technology investment drove growth in the 1990s, both directly and by fueling a rising stock market that led to increased consumer spending. Alex Berenson
For everyone else who wants to make money, there is the 'Greater Fool Theory', and it also works remarkably well in the real world.
A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse. Ron Chernow
I'm very much interested in getting prisons off the stock market. I'm very much interested in upgrading the public school system... and taking a second look at capital punishment. Ruby Dee
I've been investing in the stock market for 27 years and, within that time, have helped investors beat the market nearly four to one. Louis Navellier
If you don’t study any companies, you have the same success buying stocks as you do in a poker game if you bet without looking at your cards. Peter Lynch
I studied economics and thought I wanted to play with the stock market - my dad was a financial adviser - and I was going to go down that path. I was an intern at Smith Barney. Jimmy O. Yang
The stock market is 50% gambling. Futures and options markets (derivatives) are 90% gambling. ― Bill Walker
I have a million dollars in the stock market, because if I lose a million dollars, I don't personally care. Suze Orman
If we exaggerate the present and future value of the stock market, then as a society we may invest too much in business start-ups and expansions, and too little in infrastructure, education, and other forms of human capital. ― Robert J. Shiller
It's one of the fundamental principles of the stock market: When interest rates go up, stocks go down. And along with financial companies and cyclicals, technology companies - with their sky-high price-to-earnings multiples - should be among the biggest losers in an environment of rising rates. Alex Berenson
Quotes About Stock Market
Don’t buy cheap stocks just because they’re cheap. Buy them because the fundamentals are improving. Peter Lynch
Many people rush into the game of investing thinking they are predators. When they get to the middle of the game, they then realize they are the prey and try to escape but it will be too late. Only the preys with a well defined exit strategy will escape, the rest will be slaughtered by the real predators. – Ajaero Tony Martins
The American public historically was really not part of the stock market. Ron Chernow
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible. Bernard Baruch
Approaches to determining stock values vary, but fundamentally, each company judging itself undervalued is saying that its future stream of earnings justifies a higher price than the stock market is willing to accord it. Carol Loomis
The stock market has an insidious effect on C.E.O.s' moods, because of its impact not just on their companies but on their own bank accounts. James Surowiecki
Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in. – John D. Rockefeller
Ban short-selling, high speed trading and all other instruments of pure speculation ― Miguel Reynolds Brandao
Financial leverage is the advantage the rich have over the poor and middle class. – Rich Dad
We don’t have to be smarter than the rest, we have to be more disciplined than the rest. – Warren Buffett
Whenever you invest in any company, you’re looking for its market cap to rise. This can’t happen unless buyers are paying higher prices for the shares, making your investment more valuable. Peter Lynch
When you start to confuse Freddie Mac, Sallie Mae and Fannie Mae with members of your family, and you remember 2,000 stock symbols but forget the children’s birthdays, there’s a good chance you’ve become too wrapped up in your work.
Reliability investing requires finding companies trading below their inherent worth--stocks with strong fundamentals including earnings, dividends, book value, and cash flow selling at bargain prices give their quality. ― Amah Lambert
You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks. Peter Lynch
I am not in the stock market. I am beholden to no one in what I do. If I spend billions on a fashion show, I spend billions. It's not public. And if I am in the stock market, I am obligated to account for things, and to show what the business is doing. Giorgio Armani
Invest in a share what you can afford to lose. ― Sandeep Sahajpal
Both bull and bear can be your friends. ― Mohit Bansal
A stock market index helps investors track the performance of a group of stocks. NRDC worked with FTSE to develop comprehensive and transparent methodologies that screen out companies linked to owning, exploring, or extracting fossil fuels. Frances Beinecke
The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market. Benoit Mandelbrot
Fifteen years ago, this would have been insider trading, but that quaint concept had disappeared a decade or two ago when so many brokers were doing it that it was impossible to jail them all. Now it was called smart trading. ― Max Barry
I think this is also a great time to invest in private equity, helping companies grow from the ground top. – Jim Rogers
Multibagger mantra; find companies which are small in size: Medium in experience. Large in aspiration & having an extra large market potential. ― Vijay Kedia
Learn everyday, but especially from the experiences of others. It’s cheaper! – John Bogle
I think that stocks have been this tremendous, tremendous equalizer for people in this country. Guys who can't make a lot of money at their jobs have been able to make a lot of money in the stock market. Jim Cramer
Motivational Stock Market Sayings
Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it’s doing. Peter Lynch
Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing. Ron Chernow
I don't invest in the stock market. I did it a long, long time ago when I was really young, and I got involved in all the investigations and all the prosecutions, and I felt it was better if I didn't make individual investments. So I'm invested in funds, but not in individual - not in individual stocks. Rudy Giuliani
Nothing is simpler than owning the stock market and holding it forever, and that's essentially the idea behind the index fund. John C. Bogle
Rich people makes money when the stock market goes up, rich people makes even more money when the stock market goes down. – Unknown
Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts. Jacob Hacker
I used to go to Vegas and play the horses, and then I realised how ridiculous that was. There is no winning in gambling, but there is on the stock market. Josh Brolin
All else being equal, invest in the company with the fewest color photographs in the annual report. Peter Lynch
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). Dominic Cummings
recur on a constant basis. Over and over, with slight variations. Because markets are driven by humans and human nature never changes. ― Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Buying stocks when the broader overall market is trending up is a good idea, for long positions. The trend will provide a tailwind for the stock prices to move higher. ― Debabrata (David) Das
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. Kelly Evans
In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run, it is a weighing machine. – Ben Graham
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. Anita Roddick
When it comes to portfolios, my personal advice is for anyone who can, put money into forestry or farmland. Long term, you would probably never come near their returns in the stock market. In the world that I see, land is golden. Jeremy Grantham
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. Jo Nesbo
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
There is large cap, mid cap, small cap. There is also a BHANGAAR CAP. More than 4000 out of 6000 companies fit in that category. They show up only in the good times. Be careful ― Vijay Kedia
What indexing does is neutralize a large part of the stock market. There's no trading in those stocks, or almost none. John C. Bogle
Your investor’s edge is not something you get from Wall Street experts. It’s something you already have. Peter Lynch
Jeff Park paused, as if to let that figure register, but Barry had heard it all before. Prices went up. Shareholders profited. What part of capitalism didn't Jeff Park understand? ― Gary Shteyngart
A Bear is always stronger than a bull ― Mohit Bansal
The worst thing you can do is invest in companies you know nothing about. Unfortunately, buying stocks on ignorance is still a popular American pastime. Peter Lynch
There are no guarantees in trading. The sooner you accept that you sooner you can release your expectations and focus unconditionally on a proven process. ― Yvan Byeajee
There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States. Ron Chernow
Anything, such as the stock market, falsely believed by primitive peoples to possess divine, magical or supernatural qualities. ― Sol Luckman
You get recession, you have stock market declines. If you don’t understand that’s going to happen, then you’re not ready, you won’t do well in the markets. – Peter Lynch
Understand the nature of the companies you own and the specific reasons for holding the stock. (It is really going up! doesn’t count.) Peter Lynch
3 qualities of a good management; Honest, Hungry & Smart. ― Vijay Kedia
Always start at the end before you begin. Professional investors always have an exit strategy before they invest. Knowing your exit strategy is an important investment fundamental. – Rich Dad
Individual participation in the stock market through 401(k)s helped fuel the go-go days of Wall Street in the 1980s and birthed asset management juggernauts like Fidelity, Vanguard, Pimco, BlackRock, and dozens of others. Mary Pilon
In essence, the stock market represents three separate categories of business.They are, adjusted for inflation, those with shrinking intrinsic value, those with approximately stable intrinsic value, and those with steadily growing intrinsic value. Michael Burry
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We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario. Ron Chernow
Wall Street makes its money on activity, you make your money on inactivity. – Warren Buffett
Invest like a bull, sit like a bear and watch like an eagle. (mantra for long term investing) ― Vijay Kedia
There are several things that can create an alpha - stock buybacks are one. High dividend yields are another, especially nowadays because the stock market yields more than the banks and the tenure treasury. But by and large, it tends to be companies with a strong cash flow, rising sales, accelerated earnings, a profit margin expansion. Louis Navellier
The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them. Peter Lynch
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. Benoit Mandelbrot
Losses are necessary, as long as they are associated with a technique to help you learn from them ― David Sikhosana
Stock market goes up or down, and you can't adjust your portfolio based on the whims of the market, so you have to have a strategy in a position and stay true to that strategy and not pay attention to noise that could surround any particular investment. John Paulson
The gist of Laszlo’s pitch for the equity department was this question: When you turn on your television at six-thirty and Dan Rather tells you that today the market went up twenty-four points, what market do you think he means? What! Laszlo would say. You think he’s talking about Grade A industrial bonds? Ha! He’s talking about the stock market. In other words, if you joined the equity department, your mother would know what you did for a living. ― Michael Lewis
Anyone with a pension or retirement is an investor in the stock market. Brad Katsuyama
I was about thirteen when I started thinking about the stock market. My dad helped me a little bit. I'd see it in the 'Santa Barbara News-Press.' These prices would change every day - what was that all about? Charles Schwab
When purchasing depressed stock in troubled companies, seek out the ones with the superior financial positions and avoid the ones with loads of bank debt. – Peter Lynch
Investment is most successful when it is most businesslike. – Ben Graham
You could have another downgrade. You could certainly have a stock market reaction that would be negative. And, I think nobody who looks at it objectively would want to happen. Rob Portman
Thumb-rule in Equity markets is that big boys chase either your shares or your money ... In former case, they will beat down the share so cheap that you will be forced to sell it ... In latter case, they will balloon the prices to an extent that you will be lured to buy!! Either way, heads they win, tails you lose!!! ― Sandeep Sahajpal
Don’t always trust what you see. In a bull market even a duck looks like a swan. ― Vijay Kedia
It is argued by our GDP obsessed policy planners that eventually the money being made by the stock market operators or the IT industry would trickle down to the poor farmers in terms of ancillary jobs that would be created. But the fact is, that this has not happened, despite the boom in the stock market and the IT industry. Prashant Bhushan
A stock screening feature is then used to find the leading stocks within the leading sectors. ― Debabrata (David) Das
In college I started studying the stock market. I went down to the stock exchange, watched all the activity from the visitors' gallery, people running around, calling numbers, shouting, and all the paper flying and the bells ringing, and of course that was exciting, and it seemed to lend itself to my analytical skills. Robert C. Merton
When we do an investment, we always ask, 'Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can we have an impact?' That's a different style of investing than a passive investor in the stock market. To me, that's how you're taking the risk out of it. You know what your capability is and how you can enhance value. Dan Gilbert
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 go to $30. You just don’t know when you can find the bottom. – Peter Lynch
I think you have to learn that there’s a company behind every stock and there’s only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies. – Peter Lynch
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. Warren Buffett
Never invest emergency savings in the stock market. Suze Orman
Life seems to be like a stock market...Where relationships are traded...Can't judge when the value of a relationship will go high or low...! ― Kankane Rakhi Surendra
Stop going for the easy buck and produce something with your life. Create instead of living off the buying and selling of others. ― Oliver Stone
Part of my advantage is that my strength is economic forecasting, but that only works in free markets, when markets are smarter than people. That's how I started. I watched the stock market, how equities reacted to change in levels of economic activity, and I could understand how price signals worked and how to forecast them. Stanley Druckenmiller
The usual reason companies are funded or valued on the stock market for not having a current profit is because the investors believe there will be a future profit. Jeff Bewkes
The typical big winner in the Lynch portfolio generally takes three to ten years to play out. Peter Lynch
People who succeed in the stock market also accept periodic losses, setbacks, and unexpected occurrences. Calamitous drops do not scare them out of the game. Peter Lynch
The most important word in the world of money is cash flow. The second most important word is leverage. – Rich Dad
Every few seconds it changes, up an eighth, down an eighth. It’s like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, i gain $20 million. – Ted Turner
Confidence is not I will profit on this trade. Confidence is I will be fine if I don't profit from this trade. ― Yvan Byeajee
I was born in Jamaica but was educated by, and now serve, prestigious First World institutions, so I believe that I have a unique, dual perspective. To sidestep any biases I might have, I use the objective lens of the stock market to discover which policies actually delivered prosperity to emerging markets. Peter Blair Henry
Big money is made in the stock market by being on the right side of the major moves. The idea is to get in harmony with the market. It's suicidal to fight trends. They have a higher probability of continuing than not. Martin Zweig
Index investing outperforms active management year after year. – Jim Rogers
History proves... that a smart central bank can protect the economy and the financial sector from the nastier side effects of a stock market collapse. Ben Bernanke
We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I have found that when the market’s going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future, you will be happy. You won’t get there by reading. Now is the time to buy. – Peter Lynch
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
Stock Market Investing Quotes
No price is too low for a bear or too high for a bull. – Unknown
Even the intelligent investor is likely to need considerable willpower to keep from following the crowd. – Benjamin Graham
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
You never know what kind of setup market will present to you, your objective should be to find opportunity where risk reward ratio is best.― Jaymin Shah
In stocks as in romance, ease of divorce is not a sound basis for commitment. Peter Lynch
The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains. Mark Skousen
If you can follow only one bit of data, follow the earnings—assuming the company in question has earnings. As you’ll see in this text, I subscribe to the crusty notion that sooner or later earnings make or break an investment in equities. What the stock price does today, tomorrow, or next week is only a distraction.
One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world. Ron Chernow
I love supporting the blue-chip companies’ revival. Shows wise when you are on the top and you are still not ignorant & arrogant to realise your weaknesses. ― Csaba Gabor
Your greatest and most powerful business survival strategy is going to be the speed at which you handle the speed of change. That speed of change is trend. – Ajaero Tony Martins
Missing the bottom on the way up won’t cost you anything. It’s missing the top on the way down that’s always expensive. Peter Lynch
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. Gavyn Davies
The very best way to make money in a market is in a small growth company that has been profitable for a couple of years and simply goes on growing. Peter Lynch
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute. William Feather
I could never gamble on stocks and shares because I saw my father get hurt that way - he lost quite a lot of money when the stock market collapsed in 2001. Mark Billingham
Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market. Ron Chernow
Mutual Funds do not allow for your intellectual growth, Stocks do. And in life, wealth always catches up with your intellect ― Manoj Arora
When you are an entrepreneur, you have founded your own firm, it is so easy to find that you exist - you are the main shareholder of your company; it is very easy to look at the stock market position of your company to know how rich you are. Thomas Piketty
Buy when everyone else is selling and hold when everyone else is buying. This is not merely a catchy slogan. It is the very essence of successful investments. – J. Paul Getty
In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market. Tony Snow
What makes stocks valuable in the long run isn’t the market. It’s the profitability of the shares in the companies you own. Peter Lynch
China frequently confounds stock market prognosticators because it has a penchant for straying markedly from other broad global indexes year-by-year over the decades - even from emerging markets. It's hit or miss. Kenneth Fisher
What if I told you that, not only can you not beat the market, but most stocks actually lose money. ― Kenneth Eade
Do not but the hype from wall street and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better. – Jim Rogers
The four most expensive words in the english language are, This time it’s different. – Sir John Templeton
In order to win as a contrarian, you need perfect timing and the perfect size. ― Henrique M. Simões
Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker. Ron Chernow
Intrinsic Value Calculations for Stocks are only for a selected few. It is boring, mundane hard work.
In the world I've known most of my life, old stories quickly lose their power over capital markets and get replaced by new surprises. That which everyone fixates on gets priced into the stock market quickly and can't drag on. Kenneth Fisher
It takes remarkable patience to hold on to a stock in a company that excites you, but which everybody else seems to ignore. You begin to think everybody else is right and you are wrong. But where the fundamentals are promising, patience is often rewarded. Peter Lynch
You can outperform the experts if you use your edge by investing in companies or industries you already understand. Peter Lynch
I think the most fundamental error we make is mistaking a noisy, anomalous event for the norm. This happens all the time - in the stock market, in reports of crime and natural disaster, etc. The fact is that big, noisy, anomalous events catch our attention because they're anomalous, which isn't a problem in and of itself. Stephen J. Dubner
I grade my stocks. I'm what they call a quant, one of the geeks of the stock market. Louis Navellier
A smart investor is excited about the returns one gets from a bull market, and super excited about low cost investment one makes in a bear market.
Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing. – Warren Buffett
I hate weekends because there is no stock market. Rene Rivkin
Average investors can become experts in their own field and can pick winning stocks as effectively as Wall Street professionals by doing just a little research. Peter Lynch
A bubble starts when any group of stocks, in this case those associated with the excitement of the Internet, begin to rise. The updraft encourages more people to buy the stocks, which causes more TV and print coverage, which causes even more people to buy, which creates big profits for early Internet stockholders. The successful investors tell you at cocktail parties how easy it is to get rich, which causes the stocks to rise further, which pulls in larger and larger groups of investors. But the whole mechanism is a kind of Ponzi scheme where more and more credulous investors must be found to buy the stock from the earlier investors. Eventually, one runs out of greater fools. ― Malkiel Burton
If you are bearish or bullish long enough, you will eventually be right. – Unknown
You don’t get hurt by things that you don’t own that go up. It’s what you do own that kills you. Peter Lynch
The markets generally are unpredictable, so that one has to have different scenarios. The idea that you can actually predict what’s going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market. – George Soros
3 qualities of a good investor; Knowledge, Courage & Patience. ― Vijay Kedia
Tough times helped many commodities traders become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up. – Jim Rogers
Never invest in stocks with borrowed money or a faint heart. Both are fatal ― Manoj Arora
Regret is a lifestyle disease of equity investing. ― Vijay Kedia
Be greedy when others are fearful and fearful when others are greedy.' Easier said than done for the vast majority of stock traders. ... On every stock trade there is someone who wants to sell and someone who wants to buy, at least at a particular price. ...the person who is selling thinks that she is getting out just in time while the person buying thinks that he is about to make good money.
The stock market is for people who live in Manhattan and summer in the Hamptons, for people who can afford fancy cars - a Mercedes, say. Owen King
I believe, in the stock market - that's one of my fields - that most people are irrational. And to be irrational, you can be irrational in so many different ways that, practically, the result is indeterminate. Paul Samuelson
On the horizon ... holding time,quantity and price of shares become quite irrelevent. ― Sandeep Sahajpal
The wise man put all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket. – Andrew Carnegie
If I've learned anything as an economic analyst, it is that the stock market and economic winds can shift by the hour. Stephen Moore
The expectation that you bring with you in trading is often the greatest obstacle you will encounter. ― Yvan Byeajee
When you sell in desperation, you always sell cheap. Peter Lynch
The stock market is like a small row boat on a rough sea, bouncing around as it drifts, whereas the macro economy is like a large ocean liner, very ponderous and difficult to maneuver but without such a rough journey. Clive Granger
Bottoms in the investment world don’t end with four-year lows, they end with 10 or 15-year lows. – Jim Rogers
When good things are so low that no one wants them, I buy them and lay them away in the safe; when owing to some new development, they go up and my shares are so needed that men will pay well for them, I am ready to sell. ― Hetty Green
In history, the evidence is overwhelming: Stock market bottoms happen, and then stocks jolt upwards while the economy keeps getting worse - sometimes by a lot and for a long time. Kenneth Fisher
If you can’t find any companies that you think are attractive, put your money in the bank until you discover some. Peter Lynch
Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or the elections. – Warren Buffett
Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it. Peter Lynch
A winning strategy must include losing. – Rich Dad
Genuine acceptance that there will be losses on your way to market success will greatly decrease the hurt when they eventually come. ― yvan Byeajee
Trading on the share markets is an excellent way to increase your wealth and elevate your income levels. Mr. Yogeshwar Vashishtha is a best Stock Trader. He has done his M.Tech. From IIT. He has trained more than 5000 people in the Pathfinders Trainings Academy. ― Yogeshwar Vashishtha
Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies. Marc Andreessen
Investors should purchase stocks like they purchase groceries, not like they purchase perfume. – Ben Graham
A bull doesn’t go wrong in predicting an upswing in a falling market. He goes wrong when he predicts a down swing in a rising market. ― Vijay Kedia
The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left. – Rich Dad
If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. Norman Ralph Augustine
The stock market can be down, but the stock market is not an indication of where people's spirits and enthusiam are, and where their intellectual energy is. James Daly
You can lose money very fast, in two months, but you very rarely make money very fast in the stock market. When I look back, my great stocks took a long time to work out. Peter Lynch
Facebook is like the Internet: a large company and an application. Bitcoin is a protocol for decentralisation, so you could build a decentralised company on top of it, a stock market. It's an Internet of ownership, so it's not quite a direct comparison. Tyler Winklevoss
Every portfolio benefits from bonds; they provide a cushion when the stock market hits a rough patch. But avoiding stocks completely could mean your investment won't grow any faster than the rate of inflation. Suze Orman
Life has immense analogy with stock market.
Volatility is an investor's best friend ! ― Manoj Arora
I think the secret is if you have a lot of stocks, some will do mediocre, some will do okay, and if one or two of ’em go up big time, you produce a fabulous result. Peter Lynch
Whenever I see a stock market explode, six to 12 months later you are in a full blown recovery. Stanley Druckenmiller
Trading mastery is a state of complete acceptance of probability, not a state of fight it. ― Yvan Byeajee
I'd like to see great textbooks, great opportunities for kids to really understand stock market investing, because at the end of the day, they are going to be all they have in terms of creating a life for themselves, a retirement account, and things like that. Mellody Hobson
I just like to keep my money in the bank; I'm not a big risk-taker. I don't know anything about the stock market... I stay away from things I don't know anything about. Wayne Gretzky
Is the market high only because of some irrational exuberance — wishful thinking on the part of investors that blinds us to the truth of our situation? ― Robert J. Shiller
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. ― Michael Crichton
Opportunities always look bigger after they have passed. – Unknown
Trading effectively is about assessing probabilities, not certainties. ― Yvan Byeajee
Never invest in any company before you’ve done the homework on the company’s earnings prospects, financial condition, competitive position, etc. Peter Lynch
And at a relatively early age, ten or so, I invested my first share of stock. And I used to follow, look at companies and so forth. But throughout the whole period, and indeed right through my college years, while I was involved in the stock market, always interested in finance, I never thought of it as a full-time job. Robert C. Merton
I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law. Daniel Radcliffe
I am very concerned about the millions of baby boomers who are counting on the stock market to deliver them a safe, sound, long retirement. I am afraid the baby boomers who are counting on the stock market are in trouble. Robert Kiyosaki
But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose. Mark Cuban
Trading doesn't just reveal your character, it also builds it if you stay in the game long enough. ― Yvan Byeajee
Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense to those who know what they are doing. – Warren Buffett
Buy only what you understand, believe in, and intend to stick with – even when others are chasing the next miracle. Peter Lynch
You have to say to yourself, If I’m right, how much am I going to make? If I’m wrong, how much am I going to lose? That’s the risk/reward ratio. Peter Lynch
Motivational Stock Market Sayings
There’s no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or worse, to buy more of it when the fundamentals are deteriorating. Peter Lynch
Companies are transcending power now. We are becoming the eminent vehicles for change and influence, and capital structures that matter. If companies shut down, the stock market would collapse. Chamath Palihapitiya
Buying and selling securities in an attempt to outperform the market will effectively be a game of chance rather than skill. ― Kenneth Eade
You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how a hot commodities market can be. They will soon. – Jim Rogers
The reason for what a certain stock does today may not be known for two or three days, or weeks, or months. But what the dickens does that matter? Your business with the tape is now - not tomorrow! The reason can wait. But you must act instantly or be left. ― Jesse Lauriston Livermore
This is one of the keys to successful investing: focus on the companies, not on the stocks. Peter Lynch
Historically, there has been a bull market in the commodities every 20 or 30 years. – Jim Rogers
The stock market is a discounter of all known information. Kenneth Fisher
If the stock market exists, so must previous lives. ― Margaret Atwood
You get recession, you get stock market declines. If you don’t understand that’s going to happen, then you are not ready and you will not do well in the markets. – Peter Lynch
Long-term bonds can be almost as volatile as stocks. They have their own corrections. Peter Lynch
All through time, people have basically acted and reacted the same way in the market as a result of greed, fear, ignorance, and hope. That is why the numerical formations and patterns
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
Events, circumstances, and experiences arise and pass away. Winning trades, losing trades, fear, greed, sadness, happiness, and eventually your own life. Everything is in a constant flux. Learn to go through it with stability of mind. A meditation practice helps a lot. ― Yvan Byeajee
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. Jeremy Renner
The truth is that the market doesn't really reflect some magical perfect valuation of a stock under the efficient market hypothesis. It reflects the mass consensus of how actual individual investors value the stock. It is the sum total of everyone's hopes and fears... ― M. E. Thomas
The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient. – Warren Buffett
Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that develop, particularly during the long bull market. Ron Chernow
Who owns the future? This is the question at the heart of every stock market. John Landgraf
There is a disconnect between the performance in stock market and the performance in many companies. John Paulson
Wealth is only a benefit of the game of money. If you win, the money will be there. – J. Paul Getty
That feeling in the dressing room after you win - nothing comes close to that. You can't get that in any other career. Maybe in the stock market back in the '80s when people were making tons of money, maybe they felt something similar. Maybe. But look at the market now. Nothing gives you that emotion like sports. Nothing. Am I wrong? Paul Coffey
You may not believe it, but there always exists a bigger or greater fool willing to pay a higher price. ― Manoj Arora
The stock market crash in October 1929 didn't destroy a particularly large amount of wealth or make people highly pessimistic. Rather, it made companies and consumers very unsure about future income, and so led them to stop spending as they waited for more information. Christina Romer
If you’re in the market, you have to know there’s going to be declines. Peter Lynch
If your only reason for picking a stock is that an expert likes it, then what you really need is paid professional help. Peter Lynch
The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win. Joey Adams
Stocks do well for a reason and do poorly for a reason. Make sure you know the reasons. Peter Lynch
Value stocks are about as exciting as watching grass grow, but have you ever noticed just how much your grass grows in a week? – Christopher Browne
The market at this point is institutional and we all act like a herd. Peter Lynch
It is indeed true that the stock market can forecast the business cycle. Paul Samuelson
Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight. Daniel Drew
It is volatile, but if you stick on long enough, it has the potential to reward you with handsome returns in the long run. ― Manoj Arora
Chase the story behind the stock, not the money on the table. Money will make you rich, but the story will make you wealthy. ― Vijay Kedia
Trader has to reverse what you might call his natural impulses. Instead of hoping he must fear; instead of fearing he must hope. He must fear that his loss may develop into a much bigger loss, and hope that his profit may become a big profit. ― Jesse Lauriston Livermore
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. Joseph Force Crater
For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe. Mark Skousen
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy. Profit from folly rather than participate in it. – Warren Buffett
If you’re lucky enough to have one golden egg in your portfolio, it may not matter if you have a couple of rotten ones in there with it. Peter Lynch
As I look back on it now, it’s obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying statistics. Peter Lynch
The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it. – Andrew Carnegie
A lot of my stocks don’t work. The beauty of the stock market is that if you are wrong, if you put $1,000 up, all you lose is $1,000. I have proven that many times. Peter Lynch
Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline. Nate Silver
A bull market is very much like being in love. You don’t realise its value till it’s gone. ― Vijay Kedia
An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets. – Peter Lynch
Predictions are predictions. If you could predict the stock market, you would be super rich. But I have to race the race. It doesn't matter what I've done over the last few years. I have to race at the Olympics. Mark de Jonge
I think businesses live longer that are on the stock market. Brunello Cucinelli
If you were to just design the perfect retirement plan, you would own the stock market or you would own the bond market. You would get all the costs or all that you possibly could out of the system. So on an annual basis, if the market went up 8 percent, you would get 7.8 or 7.9 percent. John C. Bogle
There is no such thing as a bargain stock. ― Kenneth Eade
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
If discounting terrific things are already in the stock, I don’t want to own it. Peter Lynch
The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you are not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible of company that can go bankrupt. – Jim Rogers
Get inside information from the president and you will lose half of your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all your money. – Jim Rogers
You will never find fulfillment trading the markets if you don't learn to appreciate and be satisfied with what you already have. ― Yvan Byeajee
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. Monica Seles
The most popular investing products are the worst ones for investors. ― Robert Rolih
Stock market bubbles don’t grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception. – George Soros
In this business, if you’re good, you’re right six times out of ten. You’re never going to be right nine times out of ten. Peter Lynch
The data strongly suggest that very good years in the U.S. stock market are followed by more good years. Barry Ritholtz
People worry about the riskiness of stocks, but bonds can be just as risky. Peter Lynch
If you’re in a camp and a bear attacks, you don’t have to run faster than the bear, you only have to be faster than the slowest camper. – Michael Ruppert
The biggest winners are surprises to me, and takeovers are even more surprising. It takes years, not months, to produce big results. Peter Lynch
Every time you have one of these recessions, there are always groups who say it is different this time. We won’t get out of this one. Peter Lynch
Don't ever make the mistake of believing that market success has to come to you fast. Trade small, stay in the game, persist, and eventually, you'll reach a satisfying level of proficiency. ― Yvan Byeajee
Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies. Peter Lynch
As corporate profits increase, corporations become more valuable, and sooner or later, their shares will sell for a higher price. Peter Lynch
Although it’s easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket. It’s part ownership of a business. – Peter Lynch
If you do chose to invest in a share, invest for the lifetime. ― Sandeep Sahajpal
Everyone has the power to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth grade math, you can do it. – Peter Lynch
The way you lose money in the stock market is to start off with an economic picture. I also spend fifteen minutes a year on where the stock market is going. All these great, heady, thinking deals kill you.
If it’s a choice between investing in a good company in a great industry, or a great company in a lousy industry, I’ll take the great company in the lousy industry any day. Peter Lynch
Individual who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process. – Benjamin Graham
The stock market clearly values companies that can deliver disruptive innovation. Steve Blank
I'm quite bullish. We're coming up on year 15 of a flat stock market. Historically that's a pretty good sign. So I'm not a hedge-fund manager but if I was I think I'd be feeling pretty good. Marc Andreessen
The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my estimation. James Stockdale
Liking or disliking a Share you are hoding is not a function of its price movement! ― Sandeep Sahajpal
Go to the mouse you foolish investor and learn. A mouse never entrusts its life to only one hole. – Ajaero Tony Martins
Focus, patience, wise discernment, non-attachment —the skills you acquire in meditation and the skills you need to thrive in trading are one and the same. ― Yvan Byeajee
Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages. Irene Peter
I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about. Alan Greenspan
Win, loss whatever emerges in the short-term, place and manage your next trades untouched, unattached... always keeping your eyes on the long-term picture. ― Yvan Byeajee
To be a successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game. – Rich Dad
You will never be a greater risk-taker in the markets if you approach life with a completely different attitude. ― Henrique M. Simões
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