Samuelson spotted a mistake in Bacheliers work. Bachelier's model had failed to consider that stock prices cannot fall below zero. — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
Sell before the holidays. Stock prices tend to rise on the last trading day before major holidays. — Nancy Dunnan Copy Share Image
If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of… — James Sinegal Copy Share Image
When stock prices are rising, it's called ''momentum investing''; when they are falling, it's called ''panic.'' — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
If you look at academic studies, you can see that stock prices are most closely correlated with cash flow. It's such a… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Fundamental analysis seeks to establish how underlying values are reflected in stock prices, whereas the theory of reflexivity shows how stock prices… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Stock prices aren't real things. They're just froth on a wave. The wave is the only real thing, which investors forget when… — Jane Bryant Quinn Copy Share Image
Although there are good and bad companies, there is no such thing as a good stock; there are only good stock prices,… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
I always had faith in the internet. I believed in it and thought it was obviously going to change the way the… — Takafumi Horie Copy Share Image
A collapse in U.S. stock prices certainly would cause a lot of white knuckles on Wall Street. But what effect would it… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Large companies and government agencies have a lot to protect and therefore are not willing to take big risks. A large company… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
I even don't dare to watch our stock price, because this is what other people think who you are. I dare not… — Jack Ma Copy Share Image
Over many decades, our usual practice is that if something we like goes down, we buy more and more. Sometimes something happens,… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Driving stock up from one day to the next is not what we are about. We are about building a good company… — James Sinegal Copy Share Image
If a lot of people feel like this company is undervalued and go out and buy the stock, the stock price will… — Robert F. Engle Copy Share Image
There's something that's so basically corrupt about any system in which a good and fair profit is not enough. There has to… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
Index funds are... tax friendly, allowing investors to defer the realization of capital gains or avoid them completely if the shares are… — Burton Malkiel Copy Share Image
There's no denying that a collapse in stock prices today would pose serious macroeconomic challenges for the United States. Consumer spending would… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
How could Digital's collapse be so precipitous? It's because, in many ways, financial performance data is misleading. As you move up to… — Clayton Christensen 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
A lot of share-buying, not bargain-seeking, is designed to prop stock prices up. Thirty to 40 years ago, it was very profitable… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Stock prices are likely to be among the prices that are relatively vulnerable to purely social movements because there is no accepted… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
It was not hard to persuade people that the market was sound; as always in such times they asked only that the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. I do not feel there will be soon if ever a… — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
If you have information that a company is not as good as its stock market valuation, you don't have a way to… — Robert F. Engle Copy Share Image
Stocks always go down much faster than they go up. That's why it's called a crash. People who put their money into… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
It's not that stock prices are capricious. It's that the news is capricious. — Burton Malkiel Copy Share Image
There may be a recession in stock prices, but not anything in the nature of a crash. — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
Companies that get confused, that think their goal is revenue or stock price or something. You have to focus on the things… — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
The stock market really isn't a gamble, as long as you pick good companies that you think will do well, and not… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Stock prices turn people's heads. When prices are high, we treat a company like gods, and if they drop, we treat them… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
No one likes to look at their stock price go down and say, 'I feel good about that.' It goes without saying. — John L. Flannery Copy Share Image
Companies that succeed are driven by internal ambition. Stock price doesn’t drive them. Ambition and values drive them. — Sumantra Ghoshal Copy Share Image
I favour passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices. — Merton Miller Copy Share Image
If each of your time steps is one week long, you are not modeling the stock price terribly well over a one-week… — John Hull Copy Share Image
Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not against government involvement in times of need. I am for recognizing that big public companies will continue to cut jobs… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
The only way an established enterprise can dramatically increase its stock price is by adding a net new high-growth earnings engine to… — Geoffrey Moore Copy Share Image
If you can follow only one bit of data, follow the earnings - assuming the company in question has earnings. I subscribe… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
What an economy really wants, after all, is not more investment per se but better investment. It wants capital to flow to… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
