Animated Quote by James Surowiecki

During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don't have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes…

— Andrew Lo

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends…

— Philip Roth

The market is a very emotional place that appeals to fear and greed.

— Walter Schloss

Markets also have a very bad psychological effect. They drive people to a conception of themselves and society in which you're only after your…

— Noam Chomsky

But in the financial markets, without proper institutional rules, there's the law of the jungle - because there's greed! There's nothing wrong with greed,…

— Nouriel Roubini

Be fearful when the markets get greedy, be greedy when the markets get fearful.

— Warren Buffett

It is time that we dispensed with the myth that the market is a force of nature that should not be meddled with. Markets…

— Ha-Joon Chang

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

— Cyril Connolly

Greed is normally balanced by fear.

— Peter Schiff

There's no reason to think that markets always drive people to what's good for them.

— Richard Thaler

Finance is about being short-term greedy, rather than thinking about the markets as a critical part of our society that exist to empower the…

— Baiju Bhatt

I believe in market economics. But to paraphrase Churchill - who said this about democracy and political regimes - a market economy might be…

— Nouriel Roubini