Quotes About Investment

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

I decided that the stock market was not an option for IKEA. I knew that only a long-term perspective could secure our growth plans, and I didn't want IKEA to become dependent on financial institutions.

Who owns the future? This is the question at the heart of every stock market.

The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.

Anyone with a pension or retirement is an investor in the stock market.

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.

Technology investment drove growth in the 1990s, both directly and by fueling a rising stock market that led to increased consumer spending.

There is a disconnect between the performance in stock market and the performance in many companies.

I think businesses live longer that are on the stock market.

If Tung Chee-hwa dies, the stock market will take off.

The stock market is a discounter of all known information.

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.

I have invested in the stock market since I was very young.

I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the idea that there's something sacrosanct about retirement investments.

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.

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.

In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.

Never invest emergency savings in the stock market.

I really believe that you cannot use the stock market as a proxy for the economy.

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.

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.

Do I want to see people take their Social Security payments and put them into private accounts, open up an eTrade account and go into the stock market? Absolutely not.

If there's a recession, I'd buy stocks. That's when you make money: when markets are spooked.

Historically, we have always seen reversion to the mean. After stocks have had an unusually great 10 or 20 years, they typically turn in subpar results over the next 10 or 20, and after bad 10- to 20-year stretches, the next 10 to 20 tend to be above average.