Quotes About Stocks

I love the competitive part of stocks. A lot of fear and greed, that's all it is. All I see is green and red.

It was one thing to divest from companies to fight apartheid, a political institution that would (and did) respond to economic pressure. It's another thing to transform the world's energy system—an industry worth roughly $5 trillion a year and the basis for the modern economy—just by selling the stocks of fossil-fuel companies.

Here is the crux of the strategy: Instead of hiring an expert, or spending a lot of time trying to decide which stocks or actively managed funds are likely to be top performers, just invest in index funds and forget about it!

Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and investor of legendary repute: Most investors, both institutional and individual, will find that the best way to own common stocks is through an index fund that charges minimal fees. Those following this path are sure to beat the net results (after fees and expenses) delivered by the great majority of investment professionals.

Total Market Index Funds do not suffer the impact of front running because they hold nearly every publicly-listed stock. If a stock is sold by a small-cap index and bought by a mid-cap index, it makes no difference to the passive manager of a total market index fund because the index fund manager neither sells nor buys the stock, thus avoiding front running and other hidden turnover costs.

For Oscar, high school was the equivalent of a medieval spectacle, like being put in the stocks and forced to endure the peltings and outrages of a mob of deranged half-wits, an experience from which he supposed he should have emerged a better person, but that's not really what happened—and if there were any lessons to be gleaned from the ordeal of those years he never quite figured out what they were.

The potential rewards of small-cap investing do not come without risk.

We're seeing the yield curve steepen, that means long rates are going up but short rates are not because the Fed is holding them down and this is usually good for financial stocks.

Rising interest rates are considered bad for stocks because they raise the cost of doing business and depress corporate earnings and because higher yields make bonds relatively more attractive than stocks to investors.

When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me it's a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.

When yields on corporate bonds are lower than dividends on stocks, that unnerves me.

Too often, the public can fall into the trap of investing when stock prices are rising, not dropping.

If only the human body could handle trauma as well as biotechnology stocks do.

I think that stocks have been this tremendous, tremendous equalizer for people in this country. Guys who can't make a lot of money at their jobs have been able to make a lot of money in the stock market.

Monetary conditions exert an enormous influence on stock prices. Indeed, the monetary climate - primarily the trend in interest rates and Federal Reserve policy - is the dominant factor in determining the stock market's major direction.

Generally, a rising trend in rates is bearish for stocks; a falling trend is bullish.

The trend of the market is up, not down. Shorting stocks puts you against that trend and thus makes it more difficult to make money.

Truth be told, most financial television bores me. Two or more people discussing the latest economic trends or hot stocks is not especially entertaining.

Individual tribes or, in other words, races or stocks, are the constituent elements of the earliest history.

Nearly everyone interested in common stocks wants to be told by someone else what he thinks the market is going to do. The demand being there, it must be supplied.

Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research.

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They can print more money," he liked to say, "and they can print new stocks and bonds, but they can't print more land.

The history of stock price movements contains no useful information that will enable an investor consistently to outperform a buy-and-hold strategy in managing a portfolio.