T. Boone Pickens Quotes

Predicting the market is always tough.

I think the value of venues like CNBC is that they give investors an opportunity to reevaluate the situation minute by minute, but maybe we don't need to follow the market so closely.

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

The markets do numbers, not nuance.

In college I started studying the stock market. I went down to the stock exchange, watched all the activity from the visitors' gallery, people running around, calling numbers, shouting, and all the paper flying and the bells ringing, and of course that was exciting, and it seemed to lend itself to my analytical skills.

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.

You have a class of investors and you have a class of speculators. The speculators historically haven't been big enough to cause the investors to doubt the long-term vision of stock.

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

I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.

Part of my advantage is that my strength is economic forecasting, but that only works in free markets, when markets are smarter than people. That's how I started. I watched the stock market, how equities reacted to change in levels of economic activity, and I could understand how price signals worked and how to forecast them.

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

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

I mean that what makes me a professional, but the market itself has been fabulous during this whole period and I've got to give the market credit before I give myself credit.

I really believe that you cannot use the stock market as a proxy for the economy.

I always tell my traders that they would've loved the 1990s because it was a fairly easy time to make money.

Thanks, Mr. President. Nobody has complimented the stock exchange for a long while.

The markets are the world's greatest Rubik's cube. And I love solving puzzles.

I did get introduced to the financial markets while I was in college. And I think I learned also how to sort of filter out all of the nonrational, or nonsensible, noise and sort of concentrate on what matters, and that's really what markets are about.

Listen to market strategists, and a word that comes up a lot these days is 'volatility.'

If I've learned anything as an economic analyst, it is that the stock market and economic winds can shift by the hour.

There are two ways to approach the market. You can guess which direction prices will go in next, or you can figure out what businesses and their securities are really worth.

The good news is, the stock market is closed and it can't hurt us again until tomorrow.

The financial markets play an active role in determining what's going to happen, how the economy is going to function.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

Wall Street is always too biased toward short-term profitability and biased against long-term growth.