Distortion Quote by George Soros

I put forward a pretty general theory that financial markets are intrinsically unstable. That we really have a false picture when we think about…

— George Soros

Speculative markets have always been vulnerable to illusion. But seeing the folly in markets provides no clear advantage in forecasting outcomes, because changes in…

— Robert J. Shiller

Market prices for stocks fluctuate at great amplitudes around intrinsic value but, over the long term, intrinsic value is virtually always reflected at some…

— Warren Buffett

The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.

— George Soros

The financial markets are rigged by the big banks, the Federal Reserve, and the Treasury in the interests of the profits of the few…

— Paul Craig Roberts

In certain circumstances, financial markets can affect the so-called fundamentals which they are supposed to reflect. When that happens, markets enter into a state…

— George Soros

Stock prices aren't real things. They're just froth on a wave. The wave is the only real thing, which investors forget when they're watching…

— Jane Bryant Quinn

Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of…

— Barry Ritholtz

It's very difficult for any particular segment of the stock market to sustain superior performance. The watch word for our financial markets is, "reversion…

— John C. Bogle

The stock market is but a mirror which provides an image of the underlying or fundamental economic situation. Cause and effect run from the…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future.

— George Soros

Most investors give too much credence to the theory that prices are rational; they presume that a market collapse must have been justified by…

— Kenneth Fisher