Quotes About Finance

On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from.

It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.

If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.

I don't think anybody ever makes any money buying and selling stock. They have to make money by keeping the stock.

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.

Broadcasts from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange have propelled once-obscure financial journalists such as Maria Bartiromo to celebrity status and made CNBC to investors what ESPN is to sports fans.

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

Whether you're earning income because you have money sitting in the bank or a stock account somewhere, you should be taxed on that income fairly and the same.

I'm not short, so I can make a speech and drive the stock down and cover the stock. That's not what I do.

When valuation confidence falls, it means that stock markets are perceived as overpriced.

I tried paying at a restaurant with stock options. It didn't work.

In my business investing, you are buying a stock, and someone else is selling the stock. Right there, that's like a debate. Is the stock going up, or is it going to go down?

My father was an investment banker, a stock broker.

If you put tariffs in place, it creates inflation. If you put inflation in place, you have to raise interest rates. You raise interest rates, and stock markets shouldn't be so high.

Methinks, that a broker, however good and savvy, will only speak about the stock that interest him after he has bought enough of shares already and is now in the process of booking profits.

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

I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful.

The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.

Anyone with a pension or retirement is an investor in the stock market.

Technology investment drove growth in the 1990s, both directly and by fueling a rising stock market that led to increased consumer spending.

Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market.

The stock market is overpriced. Everything is overpriced. Junk is king.

I think businesses live longer that are on the stock market.

If Tung Chee-hwa dies, the stock market will take off.