Ends Quote by Steve Burns

Traders can cause short-term volatility. In the long run, the market must revert to a sensible price/earnings multiple.

— Ben Stein

People are willing to get short-term gains at the risk of long-term choices...

— Rick Rubin

My experience is that short sellers do far better analysis than long buyers because they have to. The market is biased upward over time-as…

— Seth Klarman

Well, there's always risk in long-term investment.

— Ed Davey

Markets may in the short-term correct. But in a bull market the correction is always sharp, swift and short-lived.

— Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in short, being…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

— Graydon Carter

Short-term market and economic prognostication is largely a fool’s errand, we invest according to a strategy that makes the need to rely on short-term…

— Bill Ackman

I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls…

— James Chanos

The kind of investors we seek are long term because that's how we make our decisions.

— Tim Cook

The trend of the market is up, not down. Shorting stocks puts you against that trend and thus makes it more difficult to make…

— Guy Spier

If a betting game among a certain number of participants I played long enough, eventually one player will have all the money. If there…

— William Eckhardt