Absurd Quote by Benjamin Graham

Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can.

— Tim Harford

When you have a perfect free market, it's difficult to predict the future. But when you have a market that is disturbed by government…

— Marc Faber

In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that…

— Seth Klarman

We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good.

— Warren Buffett

If I have noticed anything over these 60 years on Wall Street, it is that people do not succeed in forecasting what`s going to…

— Benjamin Graham

We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I continue to…

— Warren Buffett

I think the association of economics with forecasting is unfortunate and is down to the fact that one great way to get an investment…

— Tim Harford

Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.

— Barry Ritholtz

We really can't forecast all that well, and yet we pretend that we can, but we really can't.

— Alan Greenspan

There are a million ways to make money in the markets. The irony is that they are all very difficult to find.

— Jack D. Schwager

I can never predict what the markets will do. Sometimes it does the exact opposite of what I would have expected.

— Mitt Romney

A lot of people would rather understand the market than make money

— Ed Seykota