Friday, March 5, 2010

Market Wisdom...

"Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1. " - Warren Buffet

"I hate weekends because there is no stock market. " - Rene Rivkin

"How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case." - Robert G. Allen

"Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others." - John Maynard Keynes

"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get." - Warren Buffett

"October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February." - Mark Twain

"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. " - Dale Carnegie

"Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it." - Will Rogers

"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." - John Maynard Keynes

"Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do. " - Charles A. Jaffe

"Investors don't like uncertainty." - Kenneth Lay

"Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it." - Warren Buffett

"The worst mistake investors make is taking their profits too soon, and their losses too long. " - Michael Price

"Many investors seem to have forgotten a hard reality: There are frequent periods when stock markets don't do much." - Jim Rogers

"I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that. " - Arthur Levitt

"If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. " - Norman R. Augustine

"Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight." - Daniel Drew

"People think the stock market is a place of levelheadedness but it actually works in a totally emotional way: the President gets a pimple on his nose, and the thing plummets." - Bill Forsyth

"Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock." - Paul Getty

"Emotions are your worst enemy in the stock market." - Don Hays

"It's no coincidence that three of the top five stock option traders in a recent trading contest were all ex-Marines." - Robert Prechter Jr.

"Bob Dole revealed he is one of the test subjects for Viagra. He said on Larry King, 'I wish I had bought stock in it.' Only a Republican would think the best part of Viagra is the fact that you could make money off of it." - Jay Leno

"90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework." - William J. O'Neil

"I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful." - Regis Philbin

"I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich." - Norman Rockwell

"I'm investing in a company that has patented wallet technology that will deodorize currency. That way people won't have to deal with money that smells funny." - Moby


"Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised." - Warren Buffett


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