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A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about the person…

— Warren Buffett

Individual investors predictably flock to stocks in companies that are in the news.

— Daniel Kahneman

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

It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going…

— Barry Ritholtz

Whenever you try to pick market tops and bottoms, you are making a prediction. Guessing what stock is going to outperform the market is…

— Barry Ritholtz

The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to…

— George Soros

Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections.

— Warren Buffett

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

“Once in a while, however, the future turns out to be very different from the past. It’s at these times that accurate forecasts would…

— Howard Marks

If the stock market does go through a crisis of confidence, which I think clearly will happen one of these days, no one can…

— David Stockman

I think that intelligent forecasting (company revenues, earnings, etc.) should not seek to predict what will in fact happen in the future. Its purpose…

— Peter Cundill

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

— Mitt Romney