Quotes About Market

The traditional units of strategic analysis—company and industry—have little explanatory power when it comes to analyzing how and why blue oceans are created. (..) The most appropriate unit of analysis for explaining the creation of blue oceans is the strategic move—the set of managerial actions and decisions involved in making a major market creating business offering.

Moreover, when you ask existing customers, "How can we make you happier?" their insights tend toward the familiar, such as "Offer me more for less." But this focus almost always drives you to merely offer better solutions to your industry's existing problem, keeping you trapped in the red ocean.

A market becomes stagnant and develops a growth problem as the number of soon-to-be noncustomers increases

Mexican Market Woman This ancient hag Who sits upon the ground Selling her scanty wares Day in, day round, Has known high wind-swept mountains, And the sun has made Her skin so brown.

A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age.

As stakeholders run for the exits, market value is destroyed, and with it the flexibility to make strategic decisions.

Markets compensate investors with expected returns commensurate with the degree of risk they take. By investing in asset classes that are higher risk, and therefore higher return, an investor can expect to outperform the market as a whole—while acknowledging that they are accepting greater risk. These higher risk, higher expected return asset classes are small-capitalization stocks, value stocks, and small-value stocks. An

While investing in equities always entails risk, the longer the investment horizon, the more likely it is that equity investors will be rewarded for taking incremental risk—assuming they have the ability to remain disciplined during periods of economic crisis. Disciplined investors think bear markets are really just periods when the market temporarily wears a big "for sale" sign. On

As author Nick Murray says: "Success is purely a function of two things: 1) recognition of the inevitability of major market declines; and 2) emotional/behavioral preparation to regard such declines as non-events.

Hm... Harbor's finished, so's the public market, business is booming.... My palace couldn't be posher, hot and cold running wine, live muzak.... So what's to buy next? I want something - really - useless.... I know! I'll get a PHILOSOPHER!!' Hiring someone just to sit around thinking - now there was an idea! 'What should I think about?' 'Anything - you - like!' It must have been hard at first.

Buffett knows that a down market is when investors should be buying, not selling.

La estrategia del océano azul.

I would argue that, over the last 40 years, as a higher proportion of parents' time in two-parent families has been compensated at market rates, parental time overall has become more valuable. Consequently, parents allocate this valuable time differently during their nonworking hours than people did in the past.

Over time, the way parents have allocated their non-market-work hours has shifted considerably. The biggest change in the new home economics has been time devoted to housework. This has fallen precipitously—almost in half over 40 years.

Additionally, using the forms of publicity that capitalist culture makes available for collective identifications, some of these sex publics have exposed contradictions in the free market economics of the right, which names nonmarital sex relations as immoral while relations of economic inequality, dangerous workplaces, and disloyalty to employees amount to business as usual, not provoking any ethical questions about the privileges only some citizens enjoy.

An active manager must overcome the drag of about 3.25 percent in annual operating costs. If the fund manager is only to match the market's historical 9 percent return, he or she must return 12.25 percent before all those costs. In other words, to do merely as well as the market, an active fund manager must be able to outperform the market return by over one-third or 34.1 percent!5

How can institutional investors hope to outperform the market... when, in effect, they are the market?

As market expert Jason Zweig puts it, "If we shopped for stocks the way we shop for socks, we'd be better off." We are wrong when we feel good about stocks having gone up, and we are wrong when we feel bad about stocks having gone down.

Like the weather, the average long-term experience in investing is never surprising, but the short-term experience is always surprising.

Don't pay more per share for a company's stock than you'd be willing to pay if you were buying the whole company.

Before examining the many powerful changes in the investment climate, let's remind ourselves that active investing is, at the margin, always a negative-sum game. Trading investments among investors would by itself be a zero-sum game, except that the large costs of management fees and expenses plus commissions and market impact must be deducted. These costs total in the billions every year. Net result: Active investing is a seriously negative-sum game. To

Mr Pumblechook's premises in the High-street of the market town, were of a peppercorny and farinaceous character, as the premises of a corn-chandler and seedsman should

Some remote fragment of Main Line to somewhere else, there was, which was going to ruin the Money Market if it failed, and Church and State if it succeeded, and (of course), the Constitution, whether or no;

Lord love you, sir,' he added, 'they're so fond of Liberty in this part of the globe, that they buy her and sell her and carry her to market with 'em. They've such a passion for Liberty, that they can't help taking liberties with her. That's what it's owing to.