Best 38 quotes in «stock market quotes» category

If the stock market exists, so must previous lives.

If the management has not performed well in their bad times in the past, chances are they will not perform well in their good times in the future too.

Invest like a bull, sit like a bear and watch like an eagle. (mantra for long term investing)

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.

Investing is a business, investment is a project and investor is a promoter.

I love supporting blue chip companies’ revival. Shows wise when you are on the top and you are still not ignorant & arrogant to realise your weaknesses.

Multibagger mantra; find companies which are small in size: Medium in experience Large in aspiration & having an extra large market potential.

Professional investment may be likened to those newspaper competitions in which the competitors have to pick out the six prettiest faces from a hundred photographs, the prize being awarded to the competitor whose choice most nearly corresponds to the average preferences of the competitors as a whole; so that teach competitor has to pick not those faces which he himself finds prettiest, but those which he thinks likeliest to catch the fancy of the other competitors, all of whom are looking at the problem from the same point of view. It is not a case of choosing those which, to the best of one's judgement are really the prettiest, nor even those which average opinion genuinely thinks the prettiest. We have reached the third degree where we devote our intelligences to anticipating what average opinion expects the average opinion to be. And there are some, I believe, who practice the fourth, fifth and higher degrees.

Rome was not built in a day, but Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed in a day.

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...!

Regret is a lifestyle disease of equity investing.

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.

Some people did business with me because they wanted to get close to me, others did business with me because they were afraid to say no.

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

The most popular investing products are the worst ones for investors.

There is no such thing as a bargain stock.

We can't all be bakers or chefs. Many of us have modest ambitions. But we can all buy a piece of the pie.

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.

What if I told you that, not only can you not beat the market, but most stocks actually lose money.

Your investment belongs to the market and your profits belong to you.

3 qualities of a good management; Honest Hungry & Smart.

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.

A bull market is very much like being in love. You don’t realise its value till it’s gone.

Warren Buffett wird nicht müde zu betonen, dass es an ihm ist, sich selbst die Verwaltung des kleinsten Geldbetrages sehr angelegen sein zu lassen. Und eben darin bekundet sich jenes Verantwortungsbewusstsein, mit dem Staat zu machen ist.

When kids come on the dance floor it’s time for elders to go to the bed.

You have to distinguish between two things - the Swedish economy and the Swedish stock market. The Swedish economy is the sum of all the goods and services that are produced in this country every day. There are telephones from Ericsson, cars from Volvo, chickens from Scan, and shipments from Kiruna to Skovde. That's the Swedish economy, and it's just as strong or weak today as it was a week ago... The Stock Exchange is something very different. There is no economy and no production of goods and services. There are only fantasies in which people from one hour to the next decide that this or that company is worth so many billions, more or less. It doesn't have a thing to do with the Swedish economy.

3 qualities of a good investor; Knowledge Courage & Patience.

A Bear is always stronger than a bull

A little bit of fear and pessimism should be a necessity

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 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...

But you just watch, little girl. I'm goin' to show 'em. In five years they'll come crawlin' to me on their bellies. I don't know what it is, but I got a kind of feel for the big money.

Don’t always trust what you see. In a bull market even a duck looks like a swan.

Don’t learn literature from a history teacher.

Both bull and bear can be your friends.

Buying and selling securities in an attempt to outperform the market will effectively be a game of chance rather than skill.

Chase the story behind the stock, not the money on the table. Money will make you rich, but the story will make you wealthy.

Don’t lose good opportunities waiting for better opportunities

Es reicht, über die Geschäfte des Unternehmens im Bilde zu sein, dank erwiesener Ertragskraft, hoher Kapitalrenditen, niedriger Schulden und exquisiter Produkte beruhigt der Zukunft entgegenzusehen, die Gewissheit zu haben, dass fähige Manager am Drücker sitzen, und in ein Unternehmen zu investieren, das generell hoch im Kurs steht.