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Quotes About Volatility

This market right now is moving on nothing more than emotions. Guess what? It almost always moves on emotions.
~ David Bach
Stock prices move around wildly over very short periods of time. This does not mean that the values of the underlying companies have changed very much during that same period. In effect, the stock market acts very much like a crazy guy named Mr. Market.
~ Joel Greenblatt
Stock prices move around wildly over very short periods of time. This does not mean that the values of the underlying companies have changed very much during that same period.
~ Joel Greenblatt
Over the short term, Mr. Market acts like a wildly emotional guy who can buy or sell stocks at depressed or inflated prices. • Over the long run, it's a completely different story: Mr. Market gets it right.
~ Joel Greenblatt
Life is like the stock market. Some days you're up. Some days you're down. And some days you feel like something the bull left behind.
~ Paula Wall
The market takes the stairs up and the elevator down.
~ Anonymous
If I've learned anything as an economic analyst, it is that the stock market and economic winds can shift by the hour.
~ Stephen Moore
Once a typhoon breaks loose in markets, there is no telling where it will go.
~ Roger Lowenstein
To look closely at complex behaviors like smoking or suicide or crime is to appreciate how suggestible we are in the face of what we see and hear, and how acutely sensitive we are to even the smallest details of everyday life. That's why social change is so volatile and so often inexplicable, because it is the nature of all of us to be volatile and inexplicable.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
We associate the willingness to risk great failure and the ability to climb back from catastrophe with courage, but in this, we are wrong. That is the lesson of Taleb and Niederhoffer, and also the lesson of our volatile times. There is more courage and heroism in defying the human impulse, in taking the purposeful and painful steps to prepare for the unimaginable.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
In markets, stupid action does not have equal but severe opposite reaction.
~ Vijay Kedia
Love is a colorless,volatile Liquid.Love ignites n burns.Love Leaves no residue neither smoke nor ash.Love is a poison masquerading as spirit of Wine
~ Anita Nair
Sounds are too volatile and subtile for legal restraints; to enchain syllables, and to lash the wind, are equally the undertakings of pride, unwilling to measure its desires by its strength.
~ Samuel Johnson
In Anger Management,' he said,'we had to do all this role-playing stuff. You know, to get used to handling things in a less volatile way.' 'You role-played,' I said, trying to picture this. 'I had to. It was court-ordered.
~ Sarah Dessen
Any board-room sitter with a taste for Wall Street lore has heard of the retort that J. P. Morgan the Elder is supposed to have made to a naïve acquaintance who had ventured to ask the great man what the market was going to do. "It will fluctuate," replied Morgan dryly.
~ John Brooks
A certain amount of volatility and drama can me healthy and keep things fun and interesting if you're willing at any moment during a fight to say, 'This means nothing. I love you, let's forget about it.
~ Anthony Kiedis
A stock market trader can make more money by daily intraday selling than by buying shares as the price rises very slowly and rarely but goes down often very sharply
~ Anuj Somany
Oil and gas was an up-and-down business, at best.
~ Philip Anschutz
Toughing out the winter is a dedication to my heritage, both in terms of not going 'soft' by kowtowing to nature's volatility and staying physically close to my family in New England. I don't run from that kind of pressure.
~ Josh Gondelman
When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don't know when you can find the bottom.
~ Peter Lynch
And still, what a risk he'd taken. The woman was like an amateur car bomb: you never knew when she would explode or who she would take down with her when she did.
~ Margaret Atwood
Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent.
~ John Maynard Keynes
El seductor no lo es sino para la que quiere ser seducida, y la verdadera virtud puede conservarse intacta entre todo lo demás. El amor es ligero, volátil, y se esfuma con el aburrimiento... ¿Comprende lo que quiero decir?
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
One of the problems with hedge funds is that they are changing so rapidly. If you have the balance sheet that closed business last night, by 11 A.M. this morning, that won't tell you very much about what they're doing.
~ Alan Greenspan