Investing Quotes · Page 67

Our actions will be at measured pace given the current market turmoil.

— Raghuram Rajan

We use competitive markets to arrange for delivery of our food supply.

— Kenneth Lay

People decide what markets should do - they are not a force of nature.

— David Rolf

The pursuit of things robs me of investing more in the work of Christ.

— Jack Hyles

I got my start as a journalist, talking to actual market participants.

— Lina Khan

There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I must say also, that we are not talking just about foreign investors.

— Thabo Mbeki

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference..

— Steve Ballmer

Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections.

— Warren Buffett

If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock.

— Tim Cook

Index funds are the only rational alternative for almost all mutual fund investors.

— Mark Hulbert

Rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise.

— Martin J. Whitman

Investment performance doesn't determine real-life returns; investor behavior does.

— Nick Murray

I made a killing in the stock market. My broker lost all my money, so I killed him.

— Anonymous

China continues to welcome foreign investment, and the door will open even further.

— Li Keqiang

I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.

— Eike Batista

We will strengthen crackdown on illegal renovations and enforce a restitution of large-scale development gains to better stabilize the real estate market.

— Park Won-soon

The prevailing view has been that the market will earn a high rate of return if the holding period is long enough,…

— Seth Klarman

I can't tell you the number of people who pitched something and have no idea whom they are pitching it to. They…

— Brad Feld

It is not the responsibility of the Federal Bank - nor would it be appropriate - to protect lenders and investors from…

— Ben Bernanke

For a number of major companies, if you can't access the commercial markets, you can't fund your business. That's a big problem.…

— Kenneth Chenault

Deployment of broadband may be hampered by market failures in rural and remote areas. In such cases, well targeted state aid may…

— Neelie Kroes

You can imagine these radicals getting a hold of a country where they're able to pull oil off the market to run…

— George W. Bush

“The individual "I" is what differs from the common stock, that is, what cannot be guessed at or calculated, what must be…

— Milan Kundera

Markets are, in the end, man-made devices for utilitarian purposes, not a force of nature that we should not try to resist.…

— Ha-Joon Chang

“While spending money to build roads is seen as a public investment, critics characterize public transportation as a wasteful welfare subsidy. The…

— Janette Sadik-Khan

You can look at what I did in the Senate. I did introduce legislation to rein in compensation. I looked at ways…

— Hillary Clinton

I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a…

— Larry Hagman

We are seeing more managed money and, to an extent, institutional money entering the space. Anecdotally speaking, I know of many people…

— Olaf Carlson-Wee

The recurrence of periods of depression and mass unemployment has discredited capitalism in the opinion of injudicious people. Yet these events are…

— Ludwig von Mises

Private equity capital in each of those markets Europe and Asia - while those markets have very different characteristics - fills a…

— David Bonderman

where Nietzsche's response to the equation of socialism and morality was to question the value of morality, at least as it had…

— Ludwig von Mises

I love vintage shopping in flea markets, vintage stores and even Ebay.

— Chelsea Leyland

Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.

— Barry Ritholtz

Ben was a very simple straightforward man with a brilliant quick mind.

— Walter Schloss

The day I was announced as CEO, I think the stock dropped another 20%.

— Anne M. Mulcahy

Buy stocks like you buy your groceries, not like you buy your perfume.

— Warren Buffett

Hiring new people, opening up in new markets, all of that takes money.

— Taavet Hinrikus

My experience enables me to select the very best pilots in the market.

— Niki Lauda

“There are values far beyond those of contracts, markets and exchange”

— Gordon Brown