Average Quote by Bernard Baruch

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

Speculators often prosper through ignorance; it is a cliché that in a roaring bull market knowledge is superfluous and experience is a handicap. But…

— Benjamin Graham

Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature.

— Walter Gilbert

I don't think you can consistently be a winning trader if you're banking on being right more than 50 percent of the time. You…

— Bill Lipschutz

Inaccurate analysis produces faulty insights and bad decisions - which lead to losing a tremendous amount of money.

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.

— Tom Peters

Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks just as…

— Peter Lynch

In the stock market, when you are right, you make a little money; when you are wrong, you learn a lot of lessons, so…

— Mika

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

The best traders are not right more than they are wrong. They are quick adjusters. They are better at getting right when they are…

— Lloyd Blankfein

“If there's a proven track record, the odds are higher that success can be repeated. This is what we investors always hope for.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

A speculator gambles that a stock will go up in price because somebody else will pay even more for it.

— Benjamin Graham