#stock

My father and I used to tussle about me becoming an actor. He's from strong, Presbyterian Scottish working-class stock, and he used to sit me down and say, 'You know, 99 percent of actors are out of work. You've been educated, so why do you want to spend your life pretending to be someone else when you could be your own man?' ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

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A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#lot #market #money #national #our

In the 1920s you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#borrow #buy #could #down #margin

The American public historically was really not part of the stock market. ↗

— Ron Chernow

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We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#experience #frankly #funding #had #haven

Taking stock of what you own, when done correctly and thoroughly, helps dampen the urge to shop frivolously. ↗

— Nina Garcia

#done #helps #own #shop #stock

It was simple reality - most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock - great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#beautiful #big #big hair #competitive #day

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#left #mix #politics #proper #religion

The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes. ↗

— Art Linkletter

#ask #depression #depths #job #options

When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don't know when you can find the bottom. ↗

— Peter Lynch

#bottom #bought #buy #find #go