Robert C. Merton Quotes

I've always wanted to invest. That's why I started working on Wall Street in the first place, back in 1986 when I went through the Salomon Brothers training program.

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.

When you hear of somebody named Goldberg, you think of a guy sitting behind a desk investing your money.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

I had thought of joining my dad in his stock broking business in Delhi.

When I meet people on airplanes and they find out I'm an economist, they usually ask about stock tips.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

You can't manage Wall Street. Wall Street has its own viewpoints on everything. I have always believed, if you manage your business correctly, Wall Street will take care of itself.

Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.

The very first stock I bought right out of college was Berkshire Hathaway.

I have invested in the stock market since I was very young.

I had accumulated some capital and was at an age at which I was interested in generating income. But even though I was risk averse, I was interested in growth stocks.

I like to spend money on investments.

Warren spends 70 hours a week thinking about investing .

Even from the very beginning, I didn't put any money in the stock market.

What I'm saying is that there are bargains right now, there are stocks right now that if you're shrewd enough, you will be able to buy them at the opening today and I you'll make money in a year from now.

Finance is wholly different from the rest the economy.

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.

I own stock, and I also insure my car with Geico.

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.

One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world.

I'm primarily just an investor.

I am not criticizing investing in the stock market; I am an investor.

The institutional investor remains the bigger influence on individual trades simply because the institutional investor has more money to support the order and that will have more of an impact on the stock.

A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a customer is not a share in a business, but a view of the Elysian Fields. A financier is a creative artist. Our function is to stimulate the imagination. We are poets!