John Boehner Quotes

Traditionally, we think that people with ideas are innovators - that Silicon Valley is the world of ideas. But within the hedge-fund world, they believe that they are men of ideas - that the trade is unto itself one of ideas.

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

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.

I am not criticizing investing in the stock market; I am an investor.

Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public.

Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets.

I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.

Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.

I think people have to be very careful with new ideas [in fiancé and economics]. What you need to worry about is when you have something that’s a really good idea, but you get too much of it too fast, like over-the-counter derivatives.

I used to do a lot of the day trading and the stocks. I used to have the Ameritrade and trade options.

Do you have any idea how cheap stocks are? Wall Street is now being called Wall Mart Street

We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good.

I believe that Virtual Reality will hit it big time. I know that some of my colleagues disagree, but I believe in it.

It may be that the U.S. stock market starts to rise if people think it's gone far enough.

Investment ideas, like women are often more exciting than punctual.

While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster

The Stock Exchange is something very different. There is no economy and no production of goods and services. There are only fantasies in which people from one hour to the next decide that this or that company is worth so many billions, more or less. It doesn't have a thing to do with reality or with the Swedish economy.

We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I continue to believe that short-term market forecasts are poison and should be kept locked up in a safe place, away from children and also from grown-ups who behave in the market like children.

A speculator gambles that a stock will go up in price because somebody else will pay even more for it.

Remember this: When you are doing nothing, those speculators who feel they must trade day in and day out, are laying the foundation for your next venture. You will reap benefits from their mistakes.

Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value - in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price - should be labelled speculation

To make an idea become a reality is a process that fascinates me; otherwise it stays just an idea.

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Volatility is a symptom that people have no idea of the underlying value.

You can learn investing by reading books.