Market Optimism Quotes

Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.

Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that develop, particularly during the long bull market.

The stock prices of networking equipment companies like Cisco Systems and Nortel Networks sometimes seem as if they are priced for perpetual success.

I'm a bull on Berkshire Hathaway. There may be some considerable waiting, but I think there are some good days ahead.

Anyone can see how if a feared tax hike doesn't happen, that's a positive factor. But even if tax hikes happen as feared, vast history tells me it doesn't have to have the big bad impact folks fear. And fear of a false factor is always bullish.

The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average has closed higher in 17 of the 21 sessions since Donald Trump was elected president, with about a dozen record closes so far as it continues marching higher.

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

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.

I think we're in the beginning of a bull market. When a bull market begins, nine months later the economy turns around.

At the end of 2000, most investors were optimistic that a return to quick gains could not be far off.

FISHER SEES STOCKS PERMANENTLY HIGH

You pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus.

If stocks are optimistic, then so am I.

Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over.

When the market is just going up, up, and up, we all tend to be blind to the holes in the market. They're all papered over by the rise.

The most essential factor to economic recovery today [1932] is the restoration of confidence.

Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline.

The latter part of bull markets are typically led by stocks that are seen then as high quality, but the ones that do best are the ones that weren't seen as such high quality before.

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have passed the worst and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover.

In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to.

President Trump is growing the economy, growing our jobs market, creating new value in the stock market.

U.S. stocks did not recoil from Trump's electoral victory, instead setting a record for election-to-year-end gains.

In falling markets, there is nothing that has not happened before. The bear or pessimist sees only the past, which imprisons the wretched financial soul in eternal circles of boom and bust and boom again.

Despite the painful changes we have had to make, we continue to believe in the St. Louis market. And we are hoping to add flights, in a careful way, as the economics of our business improve and the demands of the traveling public in St. Louis become clear.