Jil Sander Quotes

In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

He really meant to tell them that the big money was not in the individual fluctuations but in the main movements that is, not in reading the tape but in sizing up the entire market and its trend.

A prudent speculator never argues with the tape. Markets are never wrong, opinions often are.

I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.

Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.

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.

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.

Investing is about intellectual honesty. You want to know what you know. You want to know, mostly, what you don't know.

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.

I never hesitate to tell a man that I am bullish or bearish. But I do not tell people to buy or sell any particular stock. In a bear market all stocks go down and in a bull market they go up.

A battle goes on in the stock market and the tape is your telescope. You can depend upon it seven out of ten cases.

I always believe that prices move first and fundamentals come second

At any moment, one company stands in the spotlight of the middle ring in the stock market's never-ending circus. It may not be the biggest corporation in the world, or the most profitable, but somehow it both mirrors and leads the market's broader action.

There is a substantial correlation between an election year and how the market finishes.

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

Part of my advantage is that my strength is economic forecasting, but that only works in free markets, when markets are smarter than people. That's how I started. I watched the stock market, how equities reacted to change in levels of economic activity, and I could understand how price signals worked and how to forecast them.

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

I mean I'm not smarter than the market, but I can recognize a good tape and a bad tape. I recognize when it's right and when it's wrong and that's what my strength is.

At the end of the day, the markets are my passion.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.

I mistrust anyone... if they're saying, 'Well, that market wants this,' and you're not part of that market.

Tape reading is a lost art that today is not very useful.

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

The proposition is that prices reflect all available information, which in simple terms means since prices reflect all available information, there's no way to beat the market.

Trading demands total concentration and the ability to do several things at once while instantly recalling trading prices from the day, or week, before.