Abnormal Quote by Robert Haugen

While I take no pleasure in others' misfortunes, we've historically made most of our profits from other investors behaving in a panicked and irrational…

— Whitney Tilson

“In the short run, however, stock returns are very volatile, driven by changes in earnings, interest rates, risk, and uncertainty, as well as psychological…

— Jeremy J. Siegel

My philosophy is that all stocks are bad. There are no good stocks unless they go up in price. If they go down instead,…

— William O'Neil

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

The true investor welcomes volatility ... a wildly fluctuating market means that irrationally low prices will periodically be attached to solid businesses.

— Warren Buffett

The relative illiquidity of small-company shares - which often contributes to their being undervalued - also increases their volatility.

— Whitney Tilson

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

It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low…

— William O'Neil

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

“39 percent of stocks had a negative total return. (Two out of every five stocks are money-losing investments.)”

— John Del Vecchio

Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

— Warren Buffett

Corporate executives often buy or sell shares in their companies, and stocks rarely rise or fall significantly when those transactions are reported.

— Alex Berenson