David Zaslav 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.

Business news is sexy.

Broadcasts from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange have propelled once-obscure financial journalists such as Maria Bartiromo to celebrity status and made CNBC to investors what ESPN is to sports fans.

If you don't follow the stock market, you are missing some amazing drama.

I hate weekends because there is no 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 always said that if I wasn't studying psychopaths in prison, I'd do it at the stock exchange.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Truth be told, most financial television bores me. Two or more people discussing the latest economic trends or hot stocks is not especially entertaining.

I always tell my traders that they would've loved the 1990s because it was a fairly easy time to make money.

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

I get my information from the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Fox News.

The best way to make money on Wall Street is to sell the most sophisticated [and complex] products to the most unsophisticated clients.

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

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

The markets are the world's greatest Rubik's cube. And I love solving puzzles.

I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it's made by Warren Buffett.