Quotes About Stock

True success and satisfaction in stock investments comes from owning both your failures and your successes.

I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.

There may be a recession in stock prices, but not anything in the nature of a crash.

You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.

A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get several good (nature) magazine features off the back of this, plus of course a lot of stock.

Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?

I have no patience with up-themselves authors who complain about having to trail round a few bookshops signing stock.

Profit sharing in the form of stock distributions to workers would help to democratize the ownership of America's vast corporate wealth which is today appallingly undemocratic and unhealthy.

But if you can understand the chapter's central point—that the value of a stock or a bond is simply the present value of its future income stream—then you will have a better grasp of the investment process than most professionals. As

For example, the most consistent bit of irrational investment behavior is the commonplace observation that we are less likely to sell losers than winners. This is known in behavioral finance circles as "regret avoidance." Holding onto a stock that has done poorly keeps alive the possibility that we will not have to confront the finality of our failure.

So the twentieth century has seen three severe drops in stock prices, one of them catastrophic. The message to the average investor is brutally clear: expect at least one, and perhaps two, very severe bear markets during your investing career. Long-term

Tasa de descuento alta = riesgo percibido elevado, alta rentabilidad, cotización de acciones depreciada. Tasa de descuento baja = riesgo percibido bajo, baja rentabilidad, cotización de acciones elevada.

The most fundamental characteristic of any investment is that its return and risk go hand in hand. As all too many have learned in the past few years, a market that doubles rapidly is just as likely to halve rapidly, and a stock that appreciates 900% is just as likely to fall 90%.

The risk of owning stock in a single shaky company is very high. But in a portfolio of many such losers, a few might reasonably be expected to pull through, providing the investor with a reasonable return. Thus

Only an income-producing possession, such as a stock, bond, or working piece of real estate is a true investment.

The moral of the story is: never argue with the market. Your health and peace of mind are always more important than any stock.

completely objective and recognize what the marketplace is telling you, rather than trying to prove that what you said or did yesterday or six weeks ago was right. The fastest way to take a bath in the stock market is to try to prove that you are right and the market is wrong. Humility and common sense provide essential balance.

Tally sticks were quite explicitly IOUs: both parties to a transaction would take a hazelwood twig, notch it to indicate the amount owed, and then split it in half. The creditor would keep one half, called "the stock" (hence the origin of the term "stock holder") and the debtor kept the other, called "the stub" (hence the origin of the term "ticket stub.)

Investors must keep in mind that there's a difference between a good company and a good stock. After all, you can buy a good car but pay too much for it.

We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.

Laughing stock: cattle with a sense of humor.

Mr. Gryce was like a merchant whose warehouses are crammed with an unmarketable commodity.

We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason, because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.