Activity Quote by John Maynard Keynes

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

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

“It is ludicrous to believe that asset bubbles can only be recognized in hindsight,” he wrote. “There are specific identifiers that are entirely recognizable…

— Michael Lewis

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

Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually burst - and that…

— Jennifer Granholm

... a speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he…

— John Maynard Keynes

When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done

— John Maynard Keynes

One doesn't like instabilities in markets; they may be damaging, but probably not fatal, as the October '87 crash showed. It turned out to…

— Kenneth Arrow

For us, whether the market is skewed from a bubble perspective or not really is mitigated by staying focused on what we do best.

— David Sze

We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production,…

— Alan Greenspan

No matter how the financial system is set up, no matter what the economic system is, as long as you have people, you're going…

— Henry Paulson

It is ludicrous to believe that asset bubbles can only be recognized in hindsight.

— Michael Burry