Cause Quote by Ben Stein

Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established

— George Soros

The majority of short term trading results are just random. In the long term the money ends up with those that can trade and…

— Steve Burns

For the investor who knows what he is doing, volatility creates opportunity.

— John Train

The true investor welcomes volatility ... a wildly fluctuating market means that irrationally low prices will periodically be attached to solid businesses.

— Warren Buffett

Markets love volatility.

— Christine Lagarde

We regard using [a stock's] volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent loss of…

— Charlie Munger

Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day.

— Alex Berenson

While I take no pleasure in others' misfortunes, we've historically made most of our profits from other investors behaving in a panicked and irrational…

— Whitney Tilson

Volatility is a symptom that people have no idea of the underlying value-that they have stopped playing the asset game. They're not buying because…

— Jeremy Grantham

With volatility, you have the potential for greater gains but also greater losses.

— Edmund Moy

The trend of the market is up, not down. Shorting stocks puts you against that trend and thus makes it more difficult to make…

— Guy Spier

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends…

— Philip Roth