Investing Quotes · Page 183

You have to do what the market requires of you... You either keep swimming, or you sink.

— Frank Deford

What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget…

— Warren Buffett

Guilt is altruism's stock in trade, and the inducing of guilt is its only means of self-perpetuati on.

— Ayn Rand

The process of going on 'Drag Race' is, in my opinion, more than a fiscal investment. It's cultural. It's the 'Game of…

— Bob the Drag Queen

It's all Northern Telecom, ... It was U.S. selling; they just started selling it and it took a lot of the other…

— Tom Green

I'm not so sure we've influenced the general market. But I'm not sure we're trying to do that.

— Linda Johnson Rice

Those who invest only to get rich will fail. Those who invest to help others will probably succeed.

— Arthur Fry

There's a company behind every stock and a reason companies - and their stocks - perform the way they do.

— Peter Lynch

Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations…

— Henry David Thoreau

I collect travel alarm clocks. I was in a flea market in France once, in 1994, and I opened up this beautiful…

— Alec Baldwin

I was asked to do an ad campaign for a supermarket once. I was baffled. It's strange when you realise your popularity…

— Bill Bailey

There will be a lot of competitive and strong companies coming here and even though Kosovo is a small country that undoubtedly…

— Ibrahim Rugova

I think liberals have to come to terms with the market and embrace market mechanisms as the only way to run a…

— Douglas Massey

Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay…

— Robert Heilbroner

Amazon and Snap both have stories that are compelling for many investors: Amazon has transformed retailing and is destined to dominate it.…

— James B. Stewart

It's kind of a funny way to put it, but if you want to study a dynamic economic system, what you'd like…

— Lars Peter Hansen

To be a super-trader, you'll need an edge to overcome the laws of probability and the uncertainty of the marketplace. That edge…

— Ari Kiev

It's difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and…

— Warren Stephens

There are a lot of Chinese-American designers and Chinese designers who have had an impact a little bit on the American market,…

— Cathy Horyn

The market performs miracles so routinely that we take it for granted. Supermarkets provide 30,000 choices at rock-bottom prices. We take it…

— John Stossel

We fought hard for socialism in a devastating war of independence and reunification. To build an affluent and prosperous society, we chose…

— Nguyen Minh Triet

In March 2019, I was looking to make investments in the F&B sector. Ranjit Bindra approached me because he heard I was…

— Raj Kundra

“It's a measly manner of existence. To get on that subway on the hot mornings in summer. To devote your whole life…

— Arthur Miller

Production for sale in a market in which the object is to realize the maximum profit is the essential feature of a…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

Markets are very important but for the government the citizens are more so.

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.

— Brad Paisley

Great design alone isn't going to yield the results investors are expecting.

— Angela Ahrendts

I don't know too many people that are good at timing the market relative to macro-economic events.

— Joel Greenblatt

There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes', or companies that operate only…

— Wang Jianlin

The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.

— George Soros

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.

— Brian Eno

When you think about it, girls and women are the largest market in the world.

— Tae Yoo

The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment.

— Timothy Geithner

My advice to most people is don't short stocks. It's a very, very difficult business. And you can really get clobbered.

— Whitney Tilson

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct…

— George Soros

A new forum is needed that reflects the realities of today's globalised world and the rising importance of emerging markets.

— Charles Dallara

In the Great Depression, employment and investment were low because labor market institutions and industrial polices changed.

— Edward C. Prescott

Vegetable box schemes, local greengrocers, farmers' markets and organic stores are a great place to source package-free foods.

— Sheherazade Goldsmith

The more emotional investment we put into the people around us, the more quality of life and longevity surrounds us.

— Lee Johnson

I don't know if I ever entertained an academic career, nor did I ever think I'd become a feature film-maker in the…

— Todd Haynes