Barbara Corcoran Quotes

Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline.

I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.

There's no statistical evidence that human beings have an ability to move in and out of the markets effectively. It's next to impossible.

Never, never try to scope the market.

The upward move at the beginning of a bull market is almost always huge compared with the vacillations late in the bear market. If you try to pick a bottom, you will miss a good part of the action.

And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets.

I'm quite bullish. We're coming up on year 15 of a flat stock market. Historically that's a pretty good sign. So I'm not a hedge-fund manager but if I was I think I'd be feeling pretty good.

I don’t know why the Stock Market does what it does.

People come in. They are too gung ho. They invest too much money in things they don't know. They lose it and then they clam up and stop investing. Then they miss the actual boom. That's the nature of the market.

I think the works of W.D. Gann and Robert Prechter have inspired me more than anyone else. It was from their writings that I discovered cycles, patterns, and psychology dominate the market, and that the news breaks with the cycles, not the other way around.

Always remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.

I never try to predict the market.

Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.

The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.

Our system is dynamic, always shifting gears. What I do is I build models to beat the market.

There is only one side of the market and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side.

Obviously, no one knows when the market is going to bottom out, and I am certainly not an economist.

One thing on psychology, which we've always known, is that every investor says they're long-term - and they are until the market takes a hit.

The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market.

I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance.

Fundamentals make the market.

Predicting the market is always tough.

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.