Fancy Quote by Matt Taibbi

Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting.

— Graydon Carter

Gambling is entertainment... Financial markets, what one often refers to as speculation, is really the force by which we move capital to the best…

— Kenneth C. Griffin

Trading is more or less like betting or gambling, but only without the pleasure show of the game.

— William C. Brown

If, instead of playing the horses, an individual chooses to play the market, that is his own affair. Only he must understand that speculating…

— Catherine Crook de Camp

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

— Benjamin Graham

Stock-picking is like gambling: those who win well, seldom bet, but when they do, they bet heavily.

— Charlie Munger

Once you adopt a value-investment strategy, any other investment behavior starts to seem like gambling.

— Seth Klarman

Betting that markets will be 'volatile' is like betting the weather will be partly cloudy. It's a smart-sounding strategy that doesn't mean much.

— Kelly Evans

Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing

— Jessica Livingston

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

We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'

— Warren Buffett

“Fortune-telling was quantum betting, a competitive scrying of variably likely outcomes.”

— China Miéville