Stock Quotes

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)
Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception. View quote
George Soros
Remember that the stock market is manic-depressive. View quote
Warren Buffett
When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened. View quote
Joe Biden
If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. View quote
Norman Ralph Augustine
The stock market has forecast nine of the last five recessions. View quote
Paul Samuelson
Of course. I favor passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices. View quote
Merton Miller
Four hundred obscenely wealthy individuals, 400 little Mubaraks -- most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion-dollar taxpayer bailout of 2008 -- now have more cash, stock and property than the assets of 155 million Americans combined. View quote
Michael Moore
Of Garrick's death That stroke of death, which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history. View quote
William Wordsworth
Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade. (Marlene Dietrich)
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress. View quote
Hendrik Willem van Loon
Insider trading is hard to prove. To be convicted, a person must have bought or sold a stock based on material information that is both unknown to the general public and likely to have had an important effect on a company's stock price. View quote
Alex Berenson
I have invested in the stock market since I was very young. View quote
Christie Hefner
I am not criticizing investing in the stock market; I am an investor. View quote
Grace Napolitano
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. View quote
Ron Chernow
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. View quote
Ron Chernow
When the weather changes and hurricanes hit, nobody believes that the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed. It's the same stock market with the same mechanisms and the same people. View quote
Benoît Mandelbrot
The produce of the earth - all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital, is divided among three classes of the community, namely, the proprietor of the land, the owner of the stock or capital necessary for its cultivation, and the labourers by whose industry it is cultivated. View quote
David Ricardo
As to the Income Tax, my opinion is that the needful revenue would be fairly and most fairly raised if paid by property, and by individuals in proportion to their property...A Property Tax should be an assessment upon all land and buildings, and canals and railroads, but not on property such as machinery, stock in trade, etc. The aristocracy have squeezed all they can out of the mass of the consumers, and now they lay their daring hands on those not wholly impoverished. View quote
John Bright
Anyone will be glad to admit that he knows nothing about beagling, or the Chinese stock market, or ballistics, but there is not a man or woman alive who does not claim to know how to cure hiccoughs. (Robert Benchley)
The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it. View quote
Jane Addams
O slavish man! will you not bear with your own brother, who has God for his Father, as being a son from the same stock, and of the same high descent? But if you chance to be placed in some superior station, will you presently set yourself up for a tyrant? View quote
Epictetus
I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, "Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task." View quote
Samuel Johnson
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. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith