Quotes About Market

Although we do not limit ourselves to the Chinese market, we see it as one of the key markets for our project.

A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim.

In 1963 and later papers, I pointed out that the special market characteristics of medical care and medical insurance could be explained by reference to differences in information among the parties involved.

Buy straw hats in the winter, when nobody wants them, and sell them in the summer when everybody needs them.

In investing, the crowd is wrong much more often than right.

it's a good idea to remember that whenever there is a buy and a seller, somebody is wrong. Make sure it's not you

One of their most famous coups was underwriting a $10 million loan for a growing mail-order house called Sears, Roebuck, headed by Goldman's distant relative. It was the first time a mail-order security had ever been on the market-a calculated risk, but one that paid off.

Never pay attention to any price-weighted index.

There are no good or bad stocks. The company is either good or bad. Stocks are just stocks.

If a stock is high enough to be sold, it is high enough to be sold short," was another Sage maxim.

Ultimately, the Rothschilds united to form a sturdy, efficient moneychain across Europe that financed its industrial revolution, creating a common money market for the first time.

Although banking was then still in its rudimentary state, Nathan fully understood the interplay between finance and economics, the effects of political news on the stock exchange, the quickest way to bull or bear a market, and how gold reserves affected the exchange rate.

Different, not opposite. That's the key to using professional forecasts—and the key to being a contrarian.

Today, there are also buyers and sellers of all these energy commodities, just like there are buyers and sellers of food commodities and many other commodities.

I have faith in the market when we get the rules right.

there are four factors that create irrational market behavior: overconfidence, biased judgments, herd mentality, and loss aversion.

You will never be allowed to buy the really good IPOs at the initial offering price. The hot IPOs are snapped up by the big institutional investors or the very best wealthy clients of the underwriting firm.

For many of us, trying to outguess the market is a game that is much too much fun to give up. Even if you were convinced you would not do any better than average, I'm sure that most of you with speculative temperaments would still want to keep on playing the game of selecting individual stocks with at least some portion of the money you invest.

Finding the next Warren Buffett is like looking for a needle in a haystack. We recommend that you buy the haystack instead, in the form of a low-cost index fund.

And if you buy the new issue after it begins trading, usually at a higher price, you are even more certain to lose.

A stock selling at $100 per share with earnings of $10 per share would have the same P/E multiple (10) as a stock selling at $40 with earnings of $4 per share. It is the P/E multiple, not the price, that really tells you how a stock is valued in the market.

Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest. (A thing is worth only what someone else will pay for it.)

Only a large-volume market like space travel can attack the barrier of high costs.

Step 1: Decide What Capital Market You're In For the sake of clarity, I will introduce some new terminology. When you are acquiring career capital in a field, you can imagine that you are acquiring this capital in a specific type of career capital market. There are two types of these markets: winner-take-all and auction. In a winner-take-all market, there is only one type of career capital available, and lots of different people competing for it.