Robert D. Hare Quotes

In fact, of all hoodoos in Wall Street I think the resolve to induce the stock market to act as a fairy godmother is the busiest and most persistent.

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

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.

Companies are always being bought and sold. The markets are always moving; you have to be on top of your position. And in the U.S., the market is never closed for more than three days. The only time the market was ever closed was 9/11. I think it may have been closed the whole week.

The stock market is the world’s largest Oujie Board.

Looking at the stock market to understand the economy is like studying a manic depressive in order to understand human nature.

Most stocks bought and sold on Wall Street are held in what's called 'street name.'

I hate weekends because there is no stock market.

I was not a student of Wall Street, but I was a quick study.

Any time you speak to people about their posture, you learn about their most recent investment activity. When someone just bought stocks, they tend to be bullish; someone who just sold is bearish.

To this day, I'm a slave to CNBC.

Wall Street is populated by a bunch of people whose primary goal is to make money, and the rules are pretty much caveat emptor.

The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.

For most of Wall Street's history, stock trading was fairly straightforward: buyers and sellers gathered on exchange floors and dickered until they struck a deal.

Markets love volatility.

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.

I loved working on Wall Street. I loved the meritocracy of it and the camaraderie of the trading floor.

Broadcasts from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange have propelled once-obscure financial journalists such as Maria Bartiromo to celebrity status and made CNBC to investors what ESPN is to sports fans.

Gentlemen. There is no man nor group of men who can buy all the stocks that the American public can sell.

Markets are self-regulating only because some brave investors are prepared to bet against the market trend.

Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street.

The stock exchange is a poor substitute for the Holy Grail.

The best way to make money on Wall Street is to sell the most sophisticated [and complex] products to the most unsophisticated clients.

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

We never know what the Street is going to do with the funky trading.