Famous Quotations about the Stock Market and Investing

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute. -Warren Buffett


"Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered." -Anonymous


"Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars." -Bernard Baruch



"If a little money does not go out, great money will not come in."-Confucious




Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it. -Warren Buffett




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




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


“ All through time, people have basically acted and reacted the same way in the market as a result of: greed, fear, ignorance, and hope. That is why the numerical formations and patterns recur on a constant basis. ”
—Jesse Livermore

“ It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight! "—Jesse Livermore


The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the person of inferior emotional balance, or the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor. ”
—Jesse Livermore

Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it. -Peter Lynch


Don't bottom fish. -Peter Lynch


I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.' -Peter Lynch



You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.-Peter Lynch



The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy. -Peter Lynch


One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute. -William Feather




Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. -Warren Buffett



If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. -Warren Buffett


It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
-Warren Buffett


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


Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
-Warren Buffett

"What's obvious is obviously wrong."


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Fall of a Giant-The USA Economy

It is the biggest reshaping of the financial industry since the Great Depression. Two of Wall Street's most storied firms, Merrill Lynch & Co. and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., headed toward extinction.Lehman,which was founded 158 years ago,filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after failing to find a buyer. Merrill Lynch, 94years old and also based in New York, agreed to sell itself to Bank of America Corp. for $50 billion in an emergency deal.


The wheel of time is moving and it is going to end the old order.Indian economy will certainly suffer from this churning, but ultimately emerging economies are going to be the winners.So, I am quite optimistic about our economic growth and I hope,in the new emerging scenario, India will become the new super economic leader.I caution my readers,it is really very bad time for the equities worldwide.Although crude is trading below 100$ per barrel and inflation figure is promising to come down under 10,We might go to retest recent lows,as I told in my may month blog,Nifty could touch 3500 and Sensex ,around 11000.