T. Boone Pickens Quotes

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

The studio system reminds me of the stock market.

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.

I invested in many companies, and I'm happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don't like capitalism, you don't like making money with stock, move to Cuba or China.

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.

Markets love volatility.

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.

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

We feel that fundamentally Wall Street is sound, and that for people who can afford to pay for them outright, good stocks are cheap at these prices

The markets do numbers, not nuance.

All market response results from a reduction of uncertainty.

I believe, in the stock market - that's one of my fields - that most people are irrational. And to be irrational, you can be irrational in so many different ways that, practically, the result is indeterminate.

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.

The borrowers of America and all the world turn to New York....It is to the quotations on the New York Stock Exchange that men of affairs from Penobscot to Honolulu turn each morning to find how beats the pulse of prosperity and enterprise.

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

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

The one stock in my portfolio which I say hasn't worked yet but has the potential for a big home run is General Motors.

If Tung Chee-hwa dies, the stock market will take off.

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.

You see this in the oil industry time and time again. Fears that we've found the last oil, that we're going to run out, pop up constantly. And soon afterward, because the price goes up, huge new reservoirs are discovered.

The stock market is a giant distraction from the business of investing.

There's something on Wall Street called PIG - panic, ignorance, and greed. Those are the big sins. I'm not greedy, I knew I was ignorant, and I didn't panic.