Quotes About Finance

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.

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.

I sell these intermediate bond portfolios for people that can't go to stocks.

Every portfolio benefits from bonds; they provide a cushion when the stock market hits a rough patch. But avoiding stocks completely could mean your investment won't grow any faster than the rate of inflation.

When growth is slower-than-expected, stocks go down. When inflation is higher-than-expected, bonds go down. When inflation is lower-than-expected, bonds go up.

I grade my stocks. I'm what they call a quant, one of the geeks of the stock market.

My advice to most people is don't short stocks. It's a very, very difficult business. And you can really get clobbered.

Everyone recognizes that's a joke because obviously the number and shape of the pieces doesn't affect the size of the pizza. And similarly, the stocks, bonds, warrants, etc., issued don't affect the aggregate value of the firm.

We typically hear numbers that there are 34 million households that are in stocks in some form. Well, I say that what's occurred is if you have a job in this country, you're in stocks.

In the 1920s you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks.

I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to institutions. In those days, which was the 1960s, the institutional salesman was making about $100,000 a year. I thought that was just an enormous amount of money.

Most people are under exposed to global assets, including foreign stocks, bonds and currencies.

Italians have always had a high savings rate. They love putting their money into their own government bonds - even more than in houses, stocks and gold. The higher rates climb, the happier they are to invest. So if austerity plans drive rates up, it's music to Italian ears.

Every penny from 'Gossip Girl,' my pension, my stocks has been spent fighting for my children.

The way the credit cards were made in the '80s to be a people's form of capitalism and be able to make it so that you could get a loan that you would have been denied previous, now that's the way stocks are.

I made money. What am I gonna invest in? Stocks? No. I'm going to invest in music.

I don't invest in the stock market. I did it a long, long time ago when I was really young, and I got involved in all the investigations and all the prosecutions, and I felt it was better if I didn't make individual investments. So I'm invested in funds, but not in individual - not in individual stocks.

Zeroing in on the best sectors or the best regions of the world is great, but zeroing in on the very best individual stocks is the key to making truly impressive profits.

I could never gamble on stocks and shares because I saw my father get hurt that way - he lost quite a lot of money when the stock market collapsed in 2001.

Businesses and households react to lower rates by investing and spending more. Lower rates also support the prices of housing and financial assets such as stocks and bonds.

I'm not a stock expert by any means. Stocks go up; they go down.