Quotes About Stock

The aliens are using us, the argument goes, for their own purposes, replenishing their genetic stock at our expense after some sort of holocaust on their own planet. If they make us feel that there is something worthwhile about the whole process, this is the result of deception. I would not say that the aliens never resort to deception to hide their purposes, but the above argument is, in my view, too narrow or linear an interpretation.

I'm an Ulsterman of Planter stock. I was born on the island of Ireland, so secondly I'm an Irishman. I was born in the British archipelago, so I am British. The British archipelago are offhore islands to the continent of Europe, so I am European.

General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room; but they are therefore to be made with the greater care and caution, lest, if we take counterfeit for true, our loss and shame be the greater when our stock comes to a severe scrutiny.

Inventory is all the money that the system has invested in purchasing things which it intends to sell." I

Pero la realidad sigue siendo que estamos condicionados a acumular stock. Todas y cada una de nuestras tiendas están hasta la coronilla de existencias. Si nos dan más espacio, les aseguro que también lo llenamos.

Inventory is all the money that the system has invested in purchasing things which it intends to sell.

Einstein was right about relativity, but even he would have had a difficult time applying relative valuation in today's stock markets.

Above all things, good policy is to be used, that the treasure and moneys, in a state, be not gathered into few hands. For otherwise a state may have a great stock, and yet starve.

Throughout this book we'll gradually build an argument that many individuals should consider an automatic approach to investing by relying primarily on mutual funds—specifically index mutual funds, which try to do nothing more than mimic the performance of the stock and bond markets in general.

During the dot-com bubble, most people did not use a persuasive theory to gauge whether stock prices were too high, too low, or just right. Instead, as they watched stock prices go up, they invented explanations to rationalize what was happening. They talked about Moore's Law, smart kids, and Alan Greenspan. Data without theory.

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

Stock is everything in cooking, at least in French cooking. Without it, nothing can be done. If one's stock is good, what remains of the work is easy; if, on the other hand, it is bad or merely mediocre, it is quite hopeless to expect anything approaching a satisfactory result.

Some, but much of my money is tied up in Playboy stock.

I am disappointed by that stroke of death [Garrick's], which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.

I'll tell you the way I see it, families have got personalities just like people. The Donovans are healthy stock and stubborn, and prone to holding a grudge. The Sparrows see the humor in everything and like to laugh even when it's bound to upset more serious-minded folks.

A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade.

When even the analysts are bored, it's time to start buying.

Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.

Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies

It was Sunday morning (one a.m.), a not unusual time for some farmers, after a late Saturday night, to have a look round their stock and decide to send for the vet.

Life without stock is barely worth living, and you will never attain demi-glace without

Because investors as a group can't beat the market, because they are the market.

Some investment advisors have turned against dollar-cost averaging because, as even Burt Malkiel admits, it's not the most productive strategy for investing in the stock market when it keeps going straight up—like it's been doing in the years following the recent Great Recession.

A stock that Raskob liked was General Motors. Hearing in 1913 that GM founder William C. Durant found himself in financial difficulties that forced him to borrow $15 million from banks, Raskob decided that GM was a good buy. He soon became bullish on GM in particular and the automotive business in general, and he induced Pierre du Pont to invest heavily in GM stock.