A speculator gambles that a stock will go up in price because somebody else will pay even more for it. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
All a company report and balance sheet can tell you is the past and the present. They cannot tell future. — Nicolas Darvas Copy Share Image
The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow. — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
Remember this: When you are doing nothing, those speculators who feel they must trade day in and day out, are laying the… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know the end… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The speculators deadly enemies are: Ignorance, greed, fear and hope. All the statute books in the world and all the rules of… — Edwin Lefevre Copy Share Image
Value investors should completely exit a security by the time it reaches full value; owning overvalued securities is the realm of speculators. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
In contrast to the speculators preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
We find two great gangs of political speculators, who alternately take possession of the state power and exploit it by the most… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
“There have been many times when I, like many other speculators, have not had the patience to await the sure thing. I… — Gil Morales Copy Share Image
What's the best gamble in the world, right now? Its betting that Deutsche Bank stock is going to go down. Short sellers… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
We accept it as normal that people who have never been on the land, who have no history or connection to the… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
“And shall we at last become the victims of our own abominable lust of gain? Forbid it, Heaven." Washington himself could be… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
East of my bean-field, across the road, lived Cato Ingraham, slave of Duncan Ingraham, Esquire, gentleman, of Concord village, whobuilt his slave… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the position is serious when enterprise becomes a… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil ... From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
In the 1920s, Wall Street was a world that was really dominated by professional speculators and stock pools. These people had a… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
[In 1889] the last big tract of Indian land was declared open for settlement, in Oklahoma. The claimants and the speculators mounted… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
The great Way is easy, yet people prefer the side paths. Be aware when things are out of balance. Stay centered within… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Wake up, America. The insurance companies took over health care. Wake up, America. The pharmaceutical companies took over drug pricing. Wake up,… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
By the aristocracy of finance must here be understood not merely the great loan promoters and speculators in public funds, in regard… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Speculators are obsessed with predicting: guessing the direction of stock prices. Every morning on cable television, every afternoon on the stock market… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
“Speculators at megabanks and investment firms such as Goldman Sachs are not, in a strict sense, capitalists. They do not make money… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
At times like the present, when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
The three traits speculators must learn to manage within themselves are confidence, fear, and aggressiveness. — Larry Williams Copy Share Image
It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
Drama began as the act of a whole community. Ideally, there would be no speculators. In practice, every member of the audience… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
But, as soon as speculators become an important influence in the market, their business is to speculate on each others behaviour. — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
If a lot of money goes into the stock market, it'll push up prices, making money for stock speculators. Then the insiders… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The day that witnesses the conversion of our ministers into political and philosophical speculators or scientific lecturers, will witness the final decay… — Peter Bayne Copy Share Image
Almost no one will accept responsibility for his or her role in precipitating a crisis: not leveraged speculators, not willfully blind leaders… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
The Heisenberg principle - If something is closely observed, the odds are it is going to be altered in the process. The… — Bruce Kovner Copy Share Image
The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. This means ... that he should be able… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Frequent comparative ranking can only reinforce a short-term investment perspective. It is understandably difficult to maintain a long-term view when, faced with… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Fear and hope remain the same; therefore the study of the psychology of speculators is as valuable as it ever was. Weapons… — Edwin Lefevre Copy Share Image
I found so many Jews and speculators here trading in cotton, and secessionists had become so open in refusing anything but gold,… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
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