Markets Quotes

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It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.

Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon.

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.

Reversion to the mean is the iron rule of the financial markets.

God understands more about the financial markets than many who write about them.

When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.

The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.

I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying.

As an anonymous participant in financial markets, I never had to weigh the social consequences of my actions ... I felt justified in ignoring them on the grounds that I was playing by the rules.

Timidity prompted by past failures causes investors to miss the most important bull markets.

I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.

Bull markets and Bear markets can obscure mathematical laws, they cannot repeal them.

The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions and to contain systemic risks in financial markets.

The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

Bull markets go to people's heads. If you're a duck on a pond, and it's rising due to a downpour, you start going up in the world. But you think it's you, not the pond.

In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and emotional impossibility.

I used to collect frames. I've been collecting accessories since I was 11-years-old, creeping around flea markets and sales and everything. Whenever I saw unusual eyeglass frames, I bought them.

Taking this view, it is possible to see financial markets as a laboratory for testing hypotheses, albeit not strictly scientific ones. The truth is, successful investing is a kind of alchemy.

The impact on the broader economy and financial markets of the problems in the subprime markets seems likely to be contained.

The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.

The financial markets play an active role in determining what's going to happen, how the economy is going to function.

The dark comes before dawn. The financial markets are under great pressure because of the lack of leadership during the transition period.

One could imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand.

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.

Don't confuse brains with a bull market.

Creating a regulatory system that reflects the modern-day realities of financial markets is not as difficult as it may appear.

Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.

In most bull markets there comes a time when the public controls fluctuations and the efforts of the largest operators are insufficient to check the rising tide.

It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets are those that are animated by both fear and greed at the same time.

I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional.

Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.

If the EU and the US can cooperate successfully on regulating financial markets, everyone else will follow.

As I discovered, there is a great deal of similarity between a boom-bust process in the financial markets and the rise and fall of the Soviet system.

There will always be bull markets followed by bear markets followed by bull markets

Trillions of dollars every day are being exchanged around the world in all of the financial markets.

I put forward a pretty general theory that financial markets are intrinsically unstable. That we really have a false picture when we think about markets tending towards equilibrium.

A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.

Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea.

Sometimes it is my impression that most politicians are still not aware of being under the control of the financial markets and are even governed by them.

Most emerging markets are skipping web based technology and go straight to mobile

You never know when you're going to get an opportunity.

Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.

Financial markets ... resent any kind of government interference but they hold a belief deep down that if conditions get really rough the authorities will step in.

No man can always have adequate reasons for buying or selling stocks daily - or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play.

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.

That's probably good, all things being equal, for emerging markets, not bad, even though it may not be great for all their currencies.