Gambling Quote by Arthur Levitt Jr

Speculators are obsessed with predicting: guessing the direction of stock prices. Every morning on cable television, every afternoon on the stock market report, every…

— Seth Klarman

Professional traders have always had some system or other based upon their experience and governed either by their attitude towards speculation or by their…

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

You know how on the evening news they always tell you that the stock market is up in active trading, or off in moderate…

— Dave Barry

Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange…

— Washington Irving

The traditional thinking has been that the stock market likes certainty.

— Maria Bartiromo

“risks therein must be assumed by someone. * There is intelligent speculation as there is intelligent investing. But there are many ways in which…

— Benjamin Graham

Betting that markets will be 'volatile' is like betting the weather will be partly cloudy. It's a smart-sounding strategy that doesn't mean much.

— Kelly Evans

As I have said before, the daily machinations of the stock market are like a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and…

— John C. Bogle

The opposite of speculation is to be present to the world simply as it is.

— Jeff Kober

Gambling is entertainment... Financial markets, what one often refers to as speculation, is really the force by which we move capital to the best…

— Kenneth C. Griffin

Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the…

— John Maynard Keynes

The ability to create same day straight through processing of mutual fund trades is a matter of will.

— Kenneth C. Griffin