Al Yankovic Quotes

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

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 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.

I never expected to record again. I knew I had done everything I ever wanted to do. I was satisfied. But... all the time I'm watching the country music horizon. And I'm sayin' 'Lord, is there anybody gonna come?'

Zeroing in on the best sectors or the best regions of the world is great, but zeroing in on the very best individual stocks is the key to making truly impressive profits.

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

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 think that I could have been take apart if the bear market continued, but I waited three years before I felt the bear market was over and I was right.

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

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.

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

Fundamentals make the market.

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

To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.

Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.

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

I've been investing in the stock market for 27 years and, within that time, have helped investors beat the market nearly four to one.

All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.

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

The only reason the stock market is doing so well is because of me. I've always been very good with money.

I pay almost no attention to the charts.

I don't dream about the perfect script, though I check my mailbox every morning.

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

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.