Fear Quote by Jeremy J. Siegel

History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism. Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the…

— Alan Greenspan

In order to understand the stock market we have to realize that, like anything enormous and inert, it's fundamentally stable, and, like anything emotion-driven,…

— Mickey Rourke

We regard using [a stock's] volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent loss of…

— Charlie Munger

“Fearful investors sell their stocks the moment prices drop while confident ones see those drops as opportunities to own better businesses at cheaper rates.”

— Olawale Daniel

Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency…

— Benjamin Graham

The cheaper the stock, the better the outlook for future returns.

— Robert Haugen

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

In the stock market (as in much of life), the beginning of wisdom is admitting your ignorance. One of the many things you cannot…

— James K. Glassman

“The stock market is almost magical because it always leads the economy. It goes down long before the economy drops and then heads higher…

— Kenneth L. Fisher

“Over the 210 years I have examined stock returns, the real return on a broadly diversified portfolio of stocks has averaged 6.6 percent per year.”

— Jeremy J. Siegel

Most investors are primarily oriented toward return, how much they can make and pay little attention to risk, how much they can lose.

— Seth Klarman

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