Robert C. Merton 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 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 have invested in the stock market since I was very young.

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

One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world.

Fundamentals make the market.

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.

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

Predicting the market is always tough.

The institutional investor remains the bigger influence on individual trades simply because the institutional investor has more money to support the order and that will have more of an impact on the stock.

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

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

I had thought of joining my dad in his stock broking business in Delhi.

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

I hate weekends because there is no stock market.

When I meet people on airplanes and they find out I'm an economist, they usually ask about stock tips.

Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market.

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

We don't think much about the up and down of the public market.

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.

It seemed glamorous when I used to go into work and get to be on a trading floor or see how the business worked a little bit before I ever understood what it was.

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

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.

And at a relatively early age, ten or so, I invested my first share of stock. And I used to follow, look at companies and so forth. But throughout the whole period, and indeed right through my college years, while I was involved in the stock market, always interested in finance, I never thought of it as a full-time job.

I've always loved to play games, and face it: investing is one big game. You need to be decisive, open-minded, flexible and competitive.