Jerry Yang Quotes

Predicting the market is always tough.

Anyone who says he is an expert in the market is lying to you. There is no such thing.

The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

… there is little rhyme or reason to the going up or coming down of the [Stock] Market

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

Listen to market strategists, and a word that comes up a lot these days is 'volatility.'

Anything can happen anytime in markets. And no advisor, economist, or TV commentator-and definitely not Charlie nor I-can tell you when chaos will occur. Market forecasters will fill your ear but will never fill your wallet.

Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.

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.

Never, never try to scope the market.

People often panic when the markets go down and sell off their stocks - but then they aren't in the game when the markets are doing well.

Fundamentals make the market.

I'm watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.

Everybody thinks that they're going to time the market, they're going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.

This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it.

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

People always come up to me and ask what the next 'big short' will be. The truth is I simply do not have an answer, and do not want to have an answer, to this question.

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.

If I've learned anything as an economic analyst, it is that the stock market and economic winds can shift by the hour.

It doesn't matter whether the market is up or down. All the day traders want is volatility.

If you roll dice, you know that the odds are one in six that the dice will come up on a particular side. So you can calculate the risk. But, in the stock market, such computations are bull - you don't even know how many sides the dice have!

When asked what the stock market will do: It will fluctuate.

Nobody really knows what the market is going to do, but it sure looks like we are going to have a lot more volatility.

The good news is, the stock market is closed and it can't hurt us again until tomorrow.