Behaviour Quote by Joan Robinson

Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In reality, they…

— 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

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

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

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

“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

We are convinced that the intelligent investor can derive satisfactory results from pricing of either type (market timing or fundamental analysis via price). We…

— Benjamin Graham

To anticipate the market is to gamble. To be patient and react only when the market gives the signal is to speculate.

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

Markets can influence the events that they anticipate.

— George Soros

It is working with clients and changing that perception. I don't mind if market commentators have that view. It's the view that clients have…

— David Livingstone

If I know what to spec, and I can measure it, and there are no unpredictable interdependencies between what you do and what I…

— Clayton Christensen

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

— Paul Krugman

“In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.”

— Amit Kalantri