Quotes About Market

I myself don't know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I'm frankly overwhelmed by the number of books in most of them, and I know people are buying mine.

It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much.

Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you've got to give people something. So why not give people a chance to let the market work for them.

A work of art is worth what someone will pay for it.

The paradox of Steve Jobs's career is that he had no interest in listening to consumers - he was famously dismissive of market research - yet nonetheless had an amazing sense of what consumers actually wanted.

Until his dying days, Steve Jobs could not only predict the direction the marketplace would be heading, but help drive it there.

When you are starting to run an online business, you need to narrow down a niche market and be able to stick with it until you have a good profit coming in. This can take a while, so you need to have a great deal of patience to make sure that your business is moving in the right direction.

Our employers today face numerous challenges and stiff competition from businesses all over the world.

Google's competitors fail to demonstrate that Google's actions stifle competition rather than reflect pro-consumer innovations.

I think that a lot of companies are still amazingly price sensitive.

It's time to stop pretending negative rates have any redeemable value - besides the ability to stimulate the market for physical safes.

And taking more money out of the private economy and having the government perform as it has poorly done with the stimulus I don't think is the right way to go.

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.

Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

The stock knows that I bought it, and it decides, 'Mohnish is done. Now let's go down.'

At any moment, one company stands in the spotlight of the middle ring in the stock market's never-ending circus. It may not be the biggest corporation in the world, or the most profitable, but somehow it both mirrors and leads the market's broader action.

Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.

Short sellers sell stock they have borrowed, hoping to buy it back later when its price has fallen.

It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining.

Early in my career, we were just pure bottoms-up stock pickers.

Just because a stock is down doesn't mean it's a great buy.

No one likes to look at their stock price go down and say, 'I feel good about that.' It goes without saying.

I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.

It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.