Quotes About Shares

And so it can be very much in the interest of bank A to sell-short bank B shares, or buy CDSes on bank B, because they have exposure to bank B. It's the responsible thing to do as a fiduciary, and yet if everyone does it at the same time, it's destabilizing because everyone is selling.

We have become a society where the artist is regarded as a self-indulgent superfluity, and the person who juggles stocks and shares is an essential part of the economy.

She needs a prophet's skill to sort out the man whose bed she shares.

The tricky part for Rockefeller and Flagler was how to supplement their capital without relinquishing control; the solution was to incorporate, which would enable them to sell shares to select outside investors.

From the start, he owned more shares of Standard Oil than anybody else and exploited every opportunity to augment his stake.

Will I write a check or would you prefer payment in Standard Oil shares?

Buoyed by these dividends, the price of Standard Oil shares leaped from 176 in 1896 to a high of 458 three years later.

Of the 35,000 Standard shares, Rockefeller held nearly 9,000, or three times the amount of Flagler, Harkness, Pratt, or Payne.)

Graham figured that always using the margin of safety principle when deciding whether to purchase shares of a business from a crazy partner like Mr. Market was the secret to making safe and reliable investment profits.

Somehow, when ownership interests are divided into shares that bounce around with Mr. Market's moods, individuals and professionals start to think about and measure risk in strange ways. When short-term thinking and overly complicated statistics get involved, owning many companies that you know very little about starts to sound safer than owning stakes in five to eight companies that have good businesses, predictable futures, and bargain prices.

light of the two centuries of church statistics we have examined, it is obvious that a group can add members and still fail to keep pace with the growth of the population and of other religious firms. The mainline denominations do not qualify as rockets that suddenly ran out of fuel in the sixties-their market shares were falling in the forties and fifties too, and throughout the century

The way to make money in stock market is to often short sell PSUs shares because its price hardly rise.

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because, where perspicacity is weakened, the most benevolent piece of advice can turn out badly.

The fastest-growing units in the big Western companies are the legal and public relations departments. Big companies devote the bulk of their earnings to buying back shares and boosting dividend payments.

Share prices go up abnormally when there are not enough investors and fall down sharply when enough public money has been collected by the listed companies

Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies.

The six other members of the Traitorous Eight bought shares, and Robert Noyce saw to it that his small alma mater, Grinnell College, was invited to participate.

I have never owned a share of stock in my life, and the only time I've double dipped into anything is at the snack tray.

Stock markets are not a way of putting money into companies, but a means of taking it out. The

Although much of what is written about finance would give a different impression, you are not providing funds for business investment by holding a company's shares, directly or indirectly. As I have explained, companies large enough to be quoted on a stock exchange are, overwhelmingly, self-financing. The relationship between the long-term investor and Exxon Mobil is one of stewardship.

Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.

Some, but much of my money is tied up in Playboy stock.

He was chairman of the British branch of the Company, and had had shares allocated to him, — or, as he said, to the house, — to the extent of two millions of dollars. But still there was a feeling of doubt, and a consciousness that Melmotte, though a tower of strength, was thought by many to have been built upon the sands.

Interestingly, as I was writing this book, TapImmune (TPIV) left the small stock OTC Exchange and moved up to the NASDAQ Exchange, where stocks have to cost $ 5 or more. But I still just enter TPIV if I want to buy more shares, like I did in the past. And now my order is automatically sent to the NASDAQ, instead of the OTC exchange.