David Einhorn Quotes

No one likes to look at their stock price go down and say, 'I feel good about that.' It goes without saying.

I had some airline stock, but the airlines tanked. I didn't have a lot of money in them, though.

With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they'd bust it to Corporal!

Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better.

My investments have been hurt.

Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.

Traders can cause short-term volatility. In the long run, the market must revert to a sensible price/earnings multiple.

I can find only one bull market, in 1935, that didn't have some material indigestion within its first 12 months.

At least us old men remember what a real bear market is like, and the young men haven't got a clue.

The government can’t guarantee that you should earn profit from your investments.

… a pin lies in wait for every bubble. And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons..

Just because a stock is down doesn't mean it's a great buy.

The stock knows that I bought it, and it decides, 'Mohnish is done. Now let's go down.'

I even don't dare to watch our stock price, because this is what other people think who you are. I dare not watch it. I think, let the market take care of themselves; we should take care of the business.

I'm not a stock expert by any means. Stocks go up; they go down.

Throughout the Great Recession of 2008, the average 401(k) balance lost anywhere from 25 to 40 percent of value. Nobody was more harmed than baby boomers or recent retirees, who, unlike younger workers, didn't have the time for the market to rebound or were no longer contributing and therefore unable to invest when stocks were cheap.

There is a disconnect between the performance in stock market and the performance in many companies.

A hyperactive stock market is the pickpocket of enterprise.

Facebook stock continues to plummet. People started selling once they found out their mom bought it too.

... No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year - if you check, you'll see that's more than most people make in a lifetime!

There is such an overvaluation of technology stocks that it is absurd. I would include our stock in that category. It is bad for the long-term worth of the economy.

Speculator: One who bought stocks that went down.

If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.

I lost all my investments after everything crashed in 2001. Prior to that, I'd been living off the interest on my investments, which was very healthy because it allowed frequent travel, and I had a lovely apartment.

Proof that no investment is yours forever.