Stock Market Quotes
- The page contains a collection of money quotes related to the stock market and investing
- The money quotes are from various public figures, investors, economists, and others
- Common themes in the quotes include the risks and volatility of the stock market, inequality and its relation to the market, and criticism of market behaviors
- Advice includes staying away from things you don’t understand, having patience in the market, and not believing claims of easily beating the market
- Money quotes also discuss how the market affects society and how companies change after going public
- The page provides a way to share individual quotes on social media
“I think you’d have to believe in the tooth fairy to believe that you could easily outperform the market by seven percentage points per annum just by investing in high volatility stocks” — Charlie Munger
“I didn’t go to business school, didn’t care about financial stuff and the stock market” — Anita Roddick
“Congressional stock holders have a greater return on investment than the average American, Either they are geniuses on the stock market or they know something that we don’t. I suspect the latter” — Craig Holman
“Widening inequality resumed in the recovery, as the stock market rebounded, wage growth and the healing of the labor market have been slow, and the increase in home prices has not fully restored the housing wealth lost by the large majority of households for which it is their primary asset” — Janet Yellen
“If you don’t know who you are, the stock market is an expensive place to find out” — Adam Smith
“What do you think happens when you suddenly are able to turn a simple text-messaging phone in the middle of a rural area in Nigeria, connected to a solar panel, into a bank terminal? Into an international loan-origination system? A stock market? An IPO engine?” — Andreas Antonopoulos
“Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker” — Ron Chernow
“The stock market is like a small row boat on a rough sea, bouncing around as it drifts, whereas the macro economy is like a large ocean liner, very ponderous and difficult to maneuver but without such a rough journey” — Clive Granger
“The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing” — Phillip Fisher
“There is no human activity that I know of to which people have a more irrational approach than the stock market” — Nicolas Darvas
“The reason our stock market is so successful is because of me. I’ve always been great with money” — Donald Trump
“I just like to keep my money in the bank; I’m not a big risk-taker. I don’t know anything about the stock market… I stay away from things I don’t know anything about” — Wayne Gretzky
“Wall Street and stock market are metaphors for a society rotting from self-indulgence, greed, widening inequality, and financial entrepreneurship that builds nothing, improves nothing, creates nothing, and solves nothing, but merely moves money from one set of pockets to another” — Robert Reich
“The minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth” — Anita Roddick
“The thing that most affects the stock market is everything” — James Playsted Wood
“The stock market is designed to transfer money from the active to the patient” — Warren Buffett
“People look at the stock market like a big casino where some lucky gamblers win. Not true” — Peter J. Tanous
“I’m involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful” — Regis Philbin
“If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn’t be in stocks” — John Bogle