stock market quotes

I am very concerned about the millions of baby boomers who are counting on the stock market to deliver them a safe, sound, long retirement. I am afraid the baby boomers who are counting on the stock market are in trouble.

As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will become a bull and save them. But as the market remains bearish, the optimists become pessimists, quit the profession, and return to their day jobs. This is when the real professional investors re-enter the market.

I’m going to retain a lot of Microsoft’s stock.

Remember that all financial markets are filled with good but not necessarily innocent people looking after their own self-interests before they look after yours.

Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the ‚intrinsic value‘ of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means.

One of the reasons so many people get burned in the market is because they start buying as they see prices going up.

Don’t hold against me that I don’t own – that I don’t own a single stock or bond. Don’t hold it – I have no savings accounts.

Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

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.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.