Quotes About Market

Stock prices move around wildly over very short periods of time. This does not mean that the values of the underlying companies have changed very much during that same period.

After more than 25 years of investing professionally and after 9 years of teaching at an Ivy League business school, I am convinced of at least two things: 1. If you really want to "beat the market," most professionals and academics can't help you, and 2. That leaves only one real alternative: You must do it yourself.

Over the short term, Mr. Market acts like a wildly emotional guy who can buy or sell stocks at depressed or inflated prices. • Over the long run, it's a completely different story: Mr. Market gets it right.

Although over the short term Mr. Market may price stocks based on emotion, over the long term Mr. Market prices stocks based on their value.

Google at the end of 2013 had a market cap six times that of General Motors while having one-fifth as many American workers.

Southeast Asia food uses many different types of spices which are quite new to me, like the curry leaves which I saw at the Kreta Ayer wet market in Chinatown. With such spices used in cooking, this usually imparts a strong aroma to Southeast Asian food, which appeals to the senses.

Listen to your customers, not your competitors.

Yo mama so fat that when she skips a meal the stock market crashes

When we hear about "drug-related violence," we picture somebody getting high and killing people. We think the violence is the product of the drugs. But in fact, it turns out this is only a tiny sliver of the violence. The vast majority is like Chino's violence—to establish, protect, and defend drug territory in an illegal market, and to build a name for being consistently terrifying so nobody tries to take your property or turf. Professor

The Mafia paid Harry Anslinger to launch his crusade because they wanted the drug market all to themselves.

In economic life competition is never completely lacking, but hardly ever is it perfect.

If you want to change the world, change it through the market

And, strangely, this one of the few things in life that the third, the latter, the buy with our eyes closed has actually done better than everybody else.

Shelf-life for a regular video game usually is about three to five years, and that's it.

I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said.

I'm not interested in a marketable product: I'm interested in what I know from my life experience to be standards of excellence

All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.

Life is like the stock market. Some days you're up. Some days you're down. And some days you feel like something the bull left behind.

I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life Zuckerberg has been making $1 billion for investors.

I don't fret much about the natural life spans of shoe companies. If stores don't do the right things, they cease to exist, and that doesn't trouble me at all.

The doctrine of laisser-faire will not work in the material world.

Nowhere is the gap between rich and poor wider, nowhere are the rich richer and the poor poorer, than in those societies that do not permit the free market to operate." – Milton and Rose Friedman, Free to Choose, Chapter 5

In theory, everybody buys the best and cheapest commodities offered to him on the market. In practice, if every one went around pricing, and chemically testing before purchasing, the dozens of soaps or fabrics or brands of bread which are for sale, economic life would become hopelessly jammed.

The market takes the stairs up and the elevator down.