I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
- Warren Buffett - Topics: Stock Market, Investing.
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
- Will Rogers - Topics: Tax, Government.
The correct conclusion in my view is that we need to be pre-emptive in avoiding these types of problems in the future. Monetary policy should not be aimed at cleaning up a mess, but leaning against the wind to avoid the mess in the future.
- Stephen Roach - Topics: Monetary Policy.
If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.
- George Soros - Topics: Investing.
It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
This EU is the New Communism. It is Power without Limits.
- Nigel Farage - Topics: Eurocrisis.
Just as the sound money policy of gold standard advocates went hand in hand with liberalism, free trade, capitalism and peace, so is inflationism part and parcel of imperialism, militarism, protectionism, statism and socialism.
- Ludwig von Mises - Topics: Liberalism, Inflation, Gold, Socialism.
There's no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or worse, to buy more of it when the fundamentals are deteriorating.
- Peter Lynch - Topics: Investing, Money Management, Stock Market.
Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.
- Peter Lynch - Topics: Stock Market.
Many traders ride an emotional roller coaster and miss the essential element of winning: the management of their emotions.
- Alexander Elder - Topics: Trader.
Remember, your goal is to trade well, not to trade often.
- Alexander Elder - Topics: Trader, Stock Market.
The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.
- Jean-Paul Kauffmann - Topics: Economist.
