Quotes About Stocks

There's something we calculate called an alpha, and that's the stock's return that's independent, uncorrelated to the market. And the only way you really get a high alpha is for something to zig when the market zags.

When it comes to valuation, there's only one thing stock investors really care about, which is earnings.

People don't like the car business. They like going to car sales, but they don't like the stock of the car companies.

The stock market is a giant distraction from the business of investing.

Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks.

If there's a recession, I'd buy stocks. That's when you make money: when markets are spooked.

Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.

Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That's because, when you invest in real estate, you often see a side of humanity that stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and saving money shelter you from.

Historically, we have always seen reversion to the mean. After stocks have had an unusually great 10 or 20 years, they typically turn in subpar results over the next 10 or 20, and after bad 10- to 20-year stretches, the next 10 to 20 tend to be above average.

My father was also interested in stocks. When I was a young child, he and his friends would drink in the evening and discuss about the stock market.

Lower interest rates are usually considered good for stocks because they lower the cost of borrowing and make bonds a less attractive alternative investment.

In commodities, when prices go up, demand goes down. In stocks, when prices go up, demand goes up.

The party line is that stocks historically have outperformed all other investment plans.

There is no bird flu in commercial stocks.

Dead-low interest rates are great for stocks. They don't run up, they creep up.

I have mutual funds. I have a lot of individual stocks. I'm across the board, really well diversified.

I had a few stocks, but stocks took a dive. I never sell my stocks.

There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.

There's quite a bit of evidence that even professionals don't show any ability to pick stocks or to predict market rollbacks. Most of the people we identify as skilled based on returns have probably just been lucky.

To finance deficits, the government must sell bonds to investors, competing for capital that could otherwise be used to invest in stocks or corporate bonds. Government borrowings raise long-term interest rates, stifling economic growth.

I expect my return to be 18 to 25 percent in 1988, while the Standard & Poor's 500 should rise 8 to 12 percent and OTC stocks gain 15 percent as liquidity emerges.

Money you won't need to use for at least seven years is money for investing. The goal here is to have your account grow over time to help you finance a distant goal, such as building a retirement fund. Since your goal is in the future, money for investing belongs in stocks.

People often panic when the markets go down and sell off their stocks - but then they aren't in the game when the markets are doing well.

I have never believed that large-cap stocks are too well followed to be anything but efficiently priced.