Robert Kiyosaki Quotes

A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market.

Markets tend to always overshoot when they get really ebullient.

When valuation confidence falls, it means that stock markets are perceived as overpriced.

When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.

Secular cycles are the long periods - as long as decades - that come to define each market era. These cycles alternate between long-term bull and bear markets.

When the market goes to hell, it's more of an opportunity than a problem.

The trend of the market is up, not down. Shorting stocks puts you against that trend and thus makes it more difficult to make money.

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.

You know, the market was down yesterday... my first thought when I heard-just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, Time to buy.

The upward move at the beginning of a bull market is almost always huge compared with the vacillations late in the bear market. If you try to pick a bottom, you will miss a good part of the action.

We say, 'The market plummets,' like it's some roaring creature.

If you go back to 2001, the market had two violent short covering rallies then, although I know the market didn't officially get going until March 2003.

Any bull market covers a multitude of sins, so there may be all sorts of problems with the current system that we won't see until the bear market comes.

Normally, the market peaks before bad news emerges. That's what happened in 1929, and that's what happened in 2000.

There will be no repetition of the break yesterday …. I have no fear of another comparable decline.

Markets that are overpriced will correct and fall of their own weight..

Like a bank run, a decline in stock prices creates its own momentum.

As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will become a bull and save them. But as the market remains bearish, the optimists become pessimists, quit the profession, and return to their day jobs. This is when the real professional investors re-enter the market.

Shorting saved my butt in 2008... Shorting kept me in the game. It generates cash when the market's crashing. And that's what you want when the market's crashing - cash.

Near the top of the market, investors are extraordinarily optimistic because they've seen mostly higher prices for a year or two. The sell-offs witnessed during that span were usually brief. Even when they were severe, the market bounced back quickly and always rose to loftier levels. At the top, optimism is king, speculation is running wild, stocks carry high price/earnings ratios, and liquidity has evaporated. A small rise in interest rates can easily be the catalyst for triggering a bear market at that point.

I love the competitive part of stocks. A lot of fear and greed, that's all it is. All I see is green and red.

If there's a recession, I'd buy stocks. That's when you make money: when markets are spooked.

I think the tech stock, the public market is still completely traumatized by the dotcom crash. I think the investors and reporters and analysts and everybody is determined to not get taken advantage of again, and that is what everybody who lived through 2000, what they kind of remember.

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

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.