Companies that succeed are driven by internal ambition. Stock price doesn’t drive them. Ambition and values drive them. — Sumantra Ghoshal Copy Share Image
Greenspan's eventual explanation for the growing gap between stock prices and actual productivity was that, fortuitously, the laws of nature had changed… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
It's not that stock prices are capricious. It's that the news is capricious. — Burton Malkiel Copy Share Image
Here’s how to know if you have the makeup to be an investor. How would you handle the following situation? Let’s say… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Then, in the 1980's, came the paroxysm of downsizing, and the very nature of the corporation was thrown into doubt. In what… — Barbara Ehrenreich 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
If you expect to be a net saver during the next 5 years, should you hope for a higher or lower stock… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The key is if the economic data stays soft, maybe we don't have to worry much about interest rates anymore. Then we… — Douglas Cliggott Copy Share Image
To prop up the stock price, managers have to turn down the screws on everybody. That forces them to cancel all the… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
A major boom in real stock prices in the US after Black Tuesday brought them halfway back to 1929 levels by 1930.… — Robert J. Shiller 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
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
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
I think markets are often not thinking on a long-time horizon, I think that our government structurally is doing even less so.… — Peter Thiel 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
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
I favour passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices. — Merton Miller 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
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
