#stocks

Be greedy when others are fearful and fearful when others are greedy.' Easier said than done for the vast majority of stock traders. ... On every stock trade there is someone who wants to sell and someone who wants to buy, at least at a particular price. ...the person who is selling thinks that she is getting out just in time while the person buying thinks that he is about to make good money. ... The truth is that the market doesn't really reflect some magical perfect valuation of a stock under the efficient market hypothesis. It reflects the mass consensus of how actual individual investors value the stock. It is the sum total of everyone's hopes and fears... ↗

— M.E. Thomas

#efficient-market-hypothesis #shares #sociopath #sociopathy #stock-market

Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better. ↗

— Jim Rogers

#better #buy #go #hype #investments

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#dice #equivalent #gambling #getting #getting money

I love the competitive part of stocks. A lot of fear and greed, that's all it is. All I see is green and red. ↗

— Josh Brolin

#fear #greed #green #i #i love

Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#been #clothes #even #formula #found

The party line is that stocks historically have outperformed all other investment plans. ↗

— Jim Cramer

#investment #line #other #party #party line

What I'm saying is that there are bargains right now, there are stocks right now that if you're shrewd enough, you will be able to buy them at the opening today and I you'll make money in a year from now. ↗

— Jim Cramer

#bargains #buy #enough #i #make

The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do deserve to lose money. ↗

— Jim Cramer

#buying #deserve #going #know #lose

Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed. ↗

— Benjamin Graham

#common #consequence #directions #excessive #fear