I made a killing in the stock market. My broker lost all my money, so I killed him.
- Jim Loy - Topics: Broker, Stock Market.
There is only one side of the market and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side.
- Jesse Livermore - Topics: Trader, Stock Market.
Governments are like primitive cannibals feasting on a great treasure trove of sheeple. You can't force them out, and you can't vote them out. But you can sure as hell starve them out. When enough people pick up and leave, essentially voting with their feet, it accelerates the system crash.
- Simon Black - Topics: Tax, Government.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax.
- Albert Einstein - Topics: Tax, Government.
It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
- Warren Buffett - Topics: Stock Market, Investing.
The hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe.
- George Soros - Topics: Money Management.
When the market deviates from your analysis, you have to cut losses without fuss or emotions.
- Alexander Elder - Topics: Money Management, Trader.
It pays to write down your plan. You need to know exactly under what conditions you will enter and exit a trade. Do not make decisions on the spur of the moment, when you are vulnerable to being sucked into the crowd. Plans are created by reasoning individuals. Impulsive trades are made by sweaty group members.
- Alexander Elder - Topics: Trader, Stock Market.
The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
- John Maynard Keynes - Topics: Government, Debt.
If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.
- Herbert Stein - Topics: Stock Market.
Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.
- Peter Lynch - Topics: Stock Market, Investing.
If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.
- George Soros - Topics: Investing.
