Quotes About Speculation

Experience has proved to me that real money made in speculating has been in commitments in a stock or commodity showing a profit right from the start.

You want to know the way to raise money? Put a transaction fee on Wall Street, so maybe we can curb some of the speculation and raise some money.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.

It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts.

You're dealing with a lot of silly people in the marketplace; it's like a great big casino and everyone else is boozing. If you can stick with Pepsi, you should be OK.

I'm glad I don't have a lot of money in the market. And quite frankly, you'd be better off giving your money to a colorblind roulette addict than put it in the stock market.

That is, many times we're not risking our own money, we're risking somebody else's money, or maybe that someone is going to back stop or downside, but we still get the upside.

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

The man who begins to speculate in stocks with the intention of making a fortune usually goes broke, whereas the man who trades with a view of getting good interest on his money sometimes gets rich.

You would be surprised how many people are in the market not to make money but for the thrill of it!

Speculators always present opportunities for genuine investors to -- pick under-priced stocks, and- exit over-priced

If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.

There are times, Sember, when I could believe your mother had a secret lover. Looking at you makes me wonder if it was one of my goats.

There may be a recession in stock prices, but not anything in the nature of a crash.

That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort or other we may consider as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be.

Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum.

By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.

There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

Sometimes I think that we're the aliens.

I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honoured by the name of speculation; but which ought to be called Gambling.

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of speculation; but which ought to be called Gambling.

Wonder. Go on and wonder.