Gamble Quote by Benjamin Graham

Just remember, without discipline, a clear strategy, and a concise plan, the speculator will fall into all the emotional pitfalls of the market -…

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value - in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price…

— Warren Buffett

We have a swarm of people in the stock market - not out of knowledge, not out of expectation, but out of basically a…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

In contrast to the speculators preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss.

— Seth Klarman

Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In reality, they…

— James Surowiecki

The most realistic distinction between the investor and the speculator is found in their attitude toward stock-market movements. The speculator's primary interest lies in…

— Benjamin Graham

... a speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he…

— John Maynard Keynes

You have a class of investors and you have a class of speculators. The speculators historically haven't been big enough to cause the investors…

— Jim Cramer

To anticipate the market is to gamble. To be patient and react only when the market gives the signal is to speculate.

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency…

— Benjamin Graham

Stock-picking is like gambling: those who win well, seldom bet, but when they do, they bet heavily.

— Charlie Munger

Speculator: One who bought stocks that went down.

— Malcolm Forbes