Stock Trading Quotes

I started trading around 1979, fresh out of college. In the early '90s, I started guesting for major news media.

Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon. I found it one of the hardest things to learn. But it is only after a stock operator has firmly grasped this that he can make big money.

One of the most helpful things that anybody can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world. They have cost stock traders, in the aggregate, enough millions of dollars to build a concrete highway across the continent.

Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.

I used to do a lot of the day trading and the stocks. I used to have the Ameritrade and trade options.

Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. If you are susceptible to selling everything in a panic, you ought to avoid stocks and mutual funds altogether.

Like the stocks of both Berkshire and Wesco to trade within hailing distance of what we think of as intrinsic value. When it runs up, we try to talk it down. That's not at all common in Corporate America, but that's the way we act.

I have never been able to understand why the tax comes as such a body blow to many people since the rate on long-term capital gain is lower than on most likes of endeavor (tax policy indicated digging ditches is regarded as socially less desirable than shuffling stock certificates).

Companies are always being bought and sold. The markets are always moving; you have to be on top of your position. And in the U.S., the market is never closed for more than three days. The only time the market was ever closed was 9/11. I think it may have been closed the whole week.

Intel has a very complete process that I go through any time I want to sell that ensures I have no insider information.

In the summer of 1990, I was buying stocks and I was probably three or four months early there. But we had a great rally in 1991.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

For instance, let us say that a new stock has been listed in the last two or three years and its high was 20, or any other figure, and that such a price was made two or three years ago. If something favorable happens in connection with the company, and the stock starts upward, usually it is safe play to buy the minute it touches a brand new high.

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

The investing world is a little bit more multidimensional than poker.

All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.

I was not a student of Wall Street, but I was a quick study.

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.

The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.

It seemed glamorous when I used to go into work and get to be on a trading floor or see how the business worked a little bit before I ever understood what it was.

I hate weekends because there is no stock market.

I got an E-Trade account. Turns out I can turn $1,000 into $420 in less than a week. Sure, I had to pay some fees.

I'm beginning to wonder about my broker. Yesterday I told him to buy a hundred shares of A.T.&T. He said, 'Would you spell that?'

I always said that if I wasn't studying psychopaths in prison, I'd do it at the stock exchange.

Short sellers sell stock they have borrowed, hoping to buy it back later when its price has fallen.