Market Speculation Quotes

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?

Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. I do not feel there will be soon if ever a 50 or 60 point break from present levels, such as (bears) have predicted. I expect to see the stock market a good deal higher within a few months.

It’s very hard to write regulations that will prevent people from acting foolishly—particularly when acting foolishly has recently made them a lot of money.

In every stockjobbing swindle every one knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbor, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety.

More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing.

Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street. When you read contemporary accounts of booms or panics, the one thing that strikes you most forcibly is how little either stock speculation or stock speculators today differ from yesterday. The game does not change and neither does human nature.

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.

Speculation, in its broadest sense, is not an evil in itself, but the contrary, and relieves public distress far oftener than it creates it.

In the autumn of 1929 the mightiest of Americans were, for a brief time, revealed as human beings.

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my estimation.

I called gold the ultimate bubble, which means it may go higher. But it’s certainly not safe and it’s not going to last forever.

A pin lies in wait for every bubble. And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons: First, many in Wall Street (a community in which quality control is not prized) will sell investors anything they will buy. Second, speculation is most dangerous when it looks easiest.

Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.

The ultimate asset bubble is gold.

A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag.

Of course, speculation will always make a crisis worse. If there is a weak point, it will expose it.

I believe that currency trading should not be a business at all.

But, as soon as speculators become an important influence in the market, their business is to speculate on each others behaviour.

Television series are like the stock market. There's room for bears and bulls but no room for pigs.

Personally I don't think day traders are speculating, because traditional speculation requires some market knowledge. They are, instead, gambling, which doesn't.

Thousands of people have tried, and the evidence is clear: The more you trade, the less you keep.

Speculators often prosper through ignorance; it is a cliché that in a roaring bull market knowledge is superfluous and experience is a handicap. But the typical experience of the speculator is one of temporary profit and ultimate loss

Cheer the bull, or cheer the bear; cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten.