Adept Quote by 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

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

Economists don't usually make good speculators, because they think too much.

— Paul Krugman

“well-functioning market requires all three types of investors for socially beneficial projects to have access to cheap capital. Value investors allocate capital to its…

— Michael Pettis

You have a class of investors and you have a class of speculators. The speculators historically haven't been big enough to cause the investors…

— Jim Cramer

The most realistic distinction between the investor and the speculator is found in their attitude toward stock-market movements. The speculator's primary interest lies in…

— Benjamin Graham

But, as soon as speculators become an important influence in the market, their business is to speculate on each others behaviour.

— Joan Robinson

If you're an investor, you're looking on what the asset is going to do, if you're a speculator, you're commonly focusing on what the…

— Warren Buffett

Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the position is serious when enterprise becomes a bubble on…

— John Maynard Keynes

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

— Benjamin Graham

If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of…

— Bernard Baruch

A prudent speculator never argues with the tape. Markets are never wrong, opinions often are.

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore