Gary Weiss Quotes

The amount of data and analysis available for free is a true example of information explosion has leveled the playing field for individual investors.

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

The only way one should buy stocks is if you understand the underlying business. You stay within the circle of competence. You buy businesses you understand.

I did not write any of the letters that were ever published as investment commentary.

When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: 'we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year.

Investors who find the best businesses to put their money behind are rewarded for their research.

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.

There's 4,000-plus stocks out there, and sometimes it gets a little confusing. And we like them to start with the portfolio grader, but if they'd like to see how I use the system and pick stocks - we offer that as well.

I have invested in the stock market since I was very young.

One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world.

You take the noise and put it in data information knowledge, and you get insight from that knowledge. How to execute the trade, the timing, sizing, long, short, and then you risk manage it.

Predicting the market is always tough.

To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.

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

I grade my stocks. I'm what they call a quant, one of the geeks of the stock market.

I've just done a commercial in the U.S. in which I talk about stocks, shares and bonds. Everyone is amazed. They ask me: 'You really know about that stuff or did you just learn it for the commercial?' I tell them I wouldn't do it unless I understood and had an interest.

I've always wanted to invest. That's why I started working on Wall Street in the first place, back in 1986 when I went through the Salomon Brothers training program.

You have to know what you own. You have to really do your homework in terms of knowing what supports your bonds.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

I was about thirteen when I started thinking about the stock market. My dad helped me a little bit. I'd see it in the 'Santa Barbara News-Press.' These prices would change every day - what was that all about?

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.

We shouldn't think anyone needs a Ph.D. in advanced investing in order to begin to invest.

Successful investing is all about common sense.

I started trading stocks, options and futures while I was at UCLA, using my earnings from working summers at the old IBM plant on Cottle Road. I never lost interest in how companies work. It's fundamental to who I am.

Investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business and How to Think About Market Prices