Jane Bryant Quinn Quotes

A bull market is like sex. It feels best just before it ends.

The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair.

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

Markets are self-regulating only because some brave investors are prepared to bet against the market trend.

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

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.

Wild swings in share prices have more to do with the "lemming- like" behaviour of institutional investors than with the aggregate returns of the company they own.

Individual investors predictably flock to stocks in companies that are in the news.

When stock prices are rising, it's called ''momentum investing''; when they are falling, it's called ''panic.''

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

More and more investors may be coming into markets everywhere but that doesn't mean that the markets are really getting more and more efficient, even in the United States. It does mean that there is more access for savvy investors who watch the money flows.

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

One thing on psychology, which we've always known, is that every investor says they're long-term - and they are until the market takes a hit.

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.

When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed.

Markets love volatility.

The older I get, the less respect I have for the signals emitted by our vaunted speculative markets.

When the man who ought to want a stock doesn't want it, why should I want it?

The markets do numbers, not nuance.

All market response results from a reduction of uncertainty.

The lesson of 2008 is that ultimately our markets are driven by confidence.

The Wall Street Dow Jones up and down thing that's moving when the stock market's open? That thing freaks me out. It's up, it's down, it's just maddening to me. I guess I'm such a super-focused kind of person that I get distracted really easy. I'll watch that thing, and it's like I'm losing money, I'm getting money. It's just crazy.

As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will become a bull and save them. But as the market remains bearish, the optimists become pessimists, quit the profession, and return to their day jobs. This is when the real professional investors re-enter the market.

We never know what the Street is going to do with the funky trading.

There is almost no limit to the ability of investors to ignore the lessons of the past.