Rene Rivkin Quotes

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

I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful.

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.

Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes, the guy who comes out on the balcony with that big hammer slams it on the head of the person who lost the most money that day.

I don't like all this business stuff. I like stocks.

I always said that if I wasn't studying psychopaths in prison, I'd do it at the stock exchange.

I love the competitive part of stocks. A lot of fear and greed, that's all it is. All I see is green and red.

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

The stock market to me was like a video game. When it went off, it was like turning the game off. It wasn't something I'd think about until I'd turn the machine on again.

At the end of the day, the markets are my passion.

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

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

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

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

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

My advice to most people is don't short stocks. It's a very, very difficult business. And you can really get clobbered.

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

My father was really into it. We would wake up in the morning and look at the markets.

I used to do a lot of the day trading and the stocks. I used to have the Ameritrade and trade options.

The problem with most people who play the market is that they are not flexible.

The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient.

Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. If you are susceptible to selling everything in a panic, you ought to avoid stocks and mutual funds altogether.

As I have said before, the daily machinations of the stock market are like a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

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