Quotes About Stocks

Successful stocks don't tell you when to sell. When you feel like bragging, it's probably time to sell.

Some families sell their stocks off a little bit at a time to live high, and then - boom - somebody takes them over, and it all goes down the drain.

If you can remember that stocks aren't pieces of paper that gyrate all the time --they are fractional interests in businesses -- it all makes sense.

The discrepancy between equity earnings yields and Treasury yields is at an all time high

the yen upturn coincided exactly with the start of a topping process in global stocks. By first quarter 2008, the yen had risen to the highest level in three years against the U.S. dollar as global stocks tumbled.

One thing that stock investing has in common with real estate is that location is very important. In this case, however, we're referring to where in the stock market your money is located. Being in the right sectors and industry groups can enhance your overall performance. Being in the wrong ones can hurt it.

fear, however, was the rotation out of economically sensitive consumer discretionary stocks (which include retailers and homebuilders) and into economically resistant stocks like consumer staples.

consumer discretionary stocks include products that consumers might want, but don't necessarily need (like a new car or house). They can defer those purchases until things start to get better. They can't defer food purchases.

leadership by consumer staples is usually associated with a market top. That would also have suggested rotating out of stocks and into bonds or gold.

Our advice? Put no more than 10 percent of your nest egg into stocks of individual corporations. The rest should be spread out over other kinds of investments.

And that is why, when attempting to balance and evaluate their investment port-folio, people often err by failing to knock down mental walls among accounts. As a result, their true portfolio mix—the combination of stocks, bonds, real estate, insurance policies, mutual funds, and the like—is often not what they think, and their investment performance often suffers.

Don't worry about your savings. You will always be a saver, but to invest in loving your spouse is to invest in blue-chip stocks.

I spend about half of my time wondering why I have so much in stocks and about half wondering why I have so little.

In the summer of 1990, I was buying stocks and I was probably three or four months early there. But we had a great rally in 1991.

Many follow a rule of thumb - no more than 5% in one stock. But that's not the entrepreneurial road to riches.

Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.

If you can buy the best companies, over time the pricing takes care of itself.

It would be nice if this [finding really cheap stocks] happened all the time. Unfortunately, it doesn't.

I stopped wasting time on what [other] people claimed a stock was worth and started looking at the numbers.

You shouldn't own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.

So in my total portfolio, including both my personal and retirement accounts, about 60% of my assets are in stocks, mostly in Vanguard's stock index funds.

Transaction Costs. Transaction costs are a broad, sweeping category and can be broken down further into categories such as brokerage commissions, market impact costs (the cost of moving the market as mutual funds trade massive market-moving positions), and spread costs (the difference between the bid-and-ask or the buy-and-sell price of a stock).

There are six that I think are really important and they are US stocks, US Treasury bonds, US Treasury inflation-protected securities [TIPS], foreign developed equities, foreign emerging-market equities, and real estate investment trusts [REITs].

Asset allocation is more than diversification. It means dividing up your money among different classes, or types, of investments (such as stocks, bonds, commodities, or real estate) and in specific proportions that you decide in advance, according to your goals or needs, risk tolerance, and stage of life.