Quotes About Market

business that makes and sells durable goods faces a problem: As soon as everyone who wants the product has it, then there is no need for more.

the impact of competitive forces that drive the introduction of extra features, often to excess: the cause of the disease dubbed "featuritis," whose major symptom is "creeping featurism.

you never sell investment real estate; you trade it.

The amateurs usually do not have cash flow, which sets up a downfall, or "crash," one sees in the cyclical real estate market.

the individual, there is no such thing as a good market or a bad market, only whether or not he or she has a good or a bad deal.

The best advice he gave me was simply to be in the real estate market as an investor and to believe in the market.

There is never a wrong time to buy real estate. When times are good, people complain about the deals they have missed. When times are bad, they claim they can't buy at the top thinking that prices will fall and, therefore, it's not a good investment.

Real estate is still a local business because the real estate is local, and the company whose

Real estate auctions offer benefits to real estate investors, whether they are buying or selling.

You looked at all the houses in your price range currently on the market, and you made your buying decision. Make sure the agent's pricing strategy is based on what buyers are going to compare your home to, including new construction, because it is competing for your buyer also.

When you are purchasing real estate, the three most important rules remain: location, location, location.

The reality is we aren't just in a race to get our products to market; we're also in a race to communicate why our customers need those products in their lives. Even if we have the best product in the marketplace, we'll lose to an inferior product if our competitor's offer is communicated more clearly.

An object—any object—was worth whatever you could get somebody to pay for it.

The financial and social stability of every industrialized country seems to be founded on the expectation of an ever-expanding market for mass production,

In 1998, Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page approached Yahoo! and suggested a merger. Yahoo! could have snapped up the company for a handful of stock, but instead they suggested that the young Googlers keep working on their little school project and come back when they had grown up. Within 5 years, Google had an estimated market capitalization of $20 billion. At the time of this writing, Forbes reported Google's market capitalization at $268.45 billion.

Investors often make the mistake of equating manager performance in a given year with manager skill. In some instances, more skilled managers will underperform because they refuse to participate in market bubbles. In fact, during market bubbles, the best performers are often the most imprudent rather than the most skilled managers.

trend line penetrations often prove to be false signals.

relationships. For example, if the S&P was moving in an inverse lockstep to the bonds, and bonds were down for the day, but the S&P was not responding on the upside, it would tell me I should sell the S&P.

Coming back again to the investment bank world, they have meetings and all sorts of stuff going on that suck up time. Traders would all complain about the waste of time, but what it actually meant was that it limited the amount of time they were in front of their screens staring at their positions. You don't want to be sitting in front of your screen and staring at market prices for 12 hours a day. Staring at the price is not going to tell you very much.

Now it's no longer sufficient to assume that because you trade with the trend, you'll make money. Of course, you still need to be with the trend, because it puts the percentages in your favor, but you also have to pay a lot more attention to where you're getting in and out.

Big market price changes happen when lots of people are forced to reevaluate their prejudices, not necessarily when the world actually changes. — Colm O'Shea

I find that major trends are now frequently preceded by a sharp price change in the opposite direction. I still make my judgments as to probable price trends based on overall market action, as I always did. However, with a few exceptions, I now buy on breaks and sell on rallies.

The best trades are the ones in which you have all three things going for you: fundamentals, technicals, and market tone.

The next thing I would advise is to always use stops.