100 Quotes About Financial Markets

For a catch-up session or to get a message across, here are 100 quotes about the financial markets:

• "Financial markets are where greed meets fear." - George Soros
• "Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent." - John Maynard Keynes
• "Buy when everyone else is selling, hold until everyone else is buying." - Warren Buffett
• "Price is what you pay, value is what you get." - Benjamin Graham
• "In the short term, the market is a ballot, but in the long term, it's a scale." - Jack Bogle
• "Stock markets are a combination of math and psychology." - Seth Klarman
• "Investing becomes stupid if you're more worried about short-term volatility than long-term quality." - Charlie Munger
• "The best protection against volatility is long-term ownership of high-quality stocks." - Jeremy Siegel
• "It's not that we lack money, it's that we lack imagination." - Jacob Fugger
• "Economic news is the short-term noise, but the trend is your long-term friend." - John Bogle
• "No one can predict the markets, so diversify." - John C. Bogle
• "Financial markets tend to exaggerate everything, both up and down." - George Soros
• "Investing is smartest when it's most boring." - Warren Buffett
• "The ignorance of investors is the playground of professionals." - Charles A. Jaffe
• "The market can stay illogical longer than you can stay solvent." - A. Gary Shilling
• "Bull markets are born in pessimism, grow in skepticism, mature in optimism and die in euphoria." - Sir John Templeton
• "Markets are machines for transferring money from the impatient to the patient." - Warren Buffett
• "The number one rule of investing is to never lose money. Rule number two is to never forget rule number one." - Warren Buffett
• "Financial markets are a mechanism for transferring money from the impatient to the patient." - Burton Malkiel
• "Investing is the process of converting hope into fear and fear into hope." - Nick Murray
• "Stock markets are designed to transfer money from assets to patients." - Joel Greenblatt
• "It's generally wise to ignore market predictions and focus on long-term performance." - Peter Lynch
• "The best time to buy a quality company is when it's reasonably priced." - Warren Buffett
• "In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable." - Robert Arnott
• "It's easier to buy an exceptional company at a fair price than to buy a mediocre company at an exceptional price." - Warren Buffett
• "Financial markets hate uncertainty." - Robert Shiller
• "Financial markets are a combination of casino and weather." - Ed Seykota
• "Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing." - Warren Buffett
• "Investing is not a game where the guy with an IQ of 160 beats the guy with an IQ of 130." - Warren Buffett
• "Investing is often about doing something different from the crowd." - John Templeton
• "Financial markets are a voting machine, not a counting machine." - Martin Zweig
• "Bear markets clear the way for bull markets." - Bernard Baruch
• "Time is your friend, momentum is your enemy." - Jack Bogle
• "The secret of management is to keep the winners and sell the losers." - George Soros
• "Diversification is a protection against ignorance." - Warren Buffett
• "Markets go up a staircase and down an elevator." - Paul Samuelson
• "Financial markets are a great transfer of wealth from the impatient to the patient." - Brian Feroldi
• "The real reward in investing comes from patience and discipline." - John Bogle
• "Successful investing is about buying companies at prices below their intrinsic value." - Seth Klarman
• "In the short term, the market is a voting machine, but in the long term, it's a weighing machine." - Benjamin Graham
• "Success in investing comes not from guessing the future, but from seeing the present clearly." - Howard Marks
• "Financial markets aren't made to be consistent, they're made to make money." - Jesse Livermore
• "The money is always there, but the pockets change." - Gertrude Stein
• "Financial markets are a competition for the world's most expensive tickets." - Paul Samuelson
• "The first rule of investing is not to lose money. The second rule is to never forget rule number one." - Warren Buffett
• "Financial markets have the capacity to compound human error." - George Soros
• "Financial markets are a collective reflection of human moods and emotions." - Richard Thaler
• "There's no point being smart about investing if you can't control your emotions." - Benjamin Graham
• "The risk lies in not knowing what you're doing." - Warren Buffett
• "Market prediction is the first step to insanity." - Peter Lynch
• "Time is the friend of the excellent investor and the enemy of the mediocre." - Warren Buffett
• "The market is a tool for transferring money from the impatient to the patient." - Warren Buffett
• "Investing is buying things that have value, but whose price is temporarily low." - Howard Marks
• "Financial markets are a means of redistributing money from optimists to realists." - Brian Feroldi
• "Investors' worst enemy is often themselves." - Benjamin Graham
• "Financial markets are a combination of mathematics and human emotions." - Robert Shiller
• "It takes courage to be a contrarian investor." - Seth Klarman
• "The secret to success in the financial markets is to remain calm in the midst of turmoil." - Warren Buffett
• "Stock markets are the only place where things cost less when they're on sale." - Joel Greenblatt
• "Volatility is the price you pay for above-average returns." - John Bogle
• "The real danger in financial markets lies in ignorance." - Paul Tudor Jones
• "Financial markets have a natural tendency to exaggerate." - George Soros
• "The greatest risk is to take no risk at all." - Mark Zuckerberg
• "Investing isn't about avoiding disruption, it's about managing it." - Howard Marks
• "The market is a tool for transferring money from the impulsive to the patient." - Warren Buffett
• "The ignorance of investors is the best ally of professionals." - Charles A. Jaffe
• "Time is an ally of the patient investor and an enemy of the impatient investor." - Warren Buffett
• "Financial markets are a mechanism for transferring money from worriers to patients." - Warren Buffett
• "True wealth is built by long-term ownership of solid companies." - Warren Buffett
• "Price is what you pay, value is what you get." - Warren Buffett
• "Financial markets aren't there to be logical, they're there to be profitable." - Jesse Livermore
• "Investing is the art of making money while you sleep." - Warren Buffett
• "The secret to making money in the stock market is to buy when the blood is flowing in the streets." - Baron Rothschild
• "Financial markets hate uncertainty." - Robert Shiller
• "Financial markets have a tendency to repeat history." - George Soros
• "Investing is a gamble, but not investing is an even bigger gamble." - Robert Arnott
• "Financial markets are the means of transferring money from the impatient to the patient." - Brian Feroldi
• "Success in investing requires patience and discipline." - John Bogle
• "Markets are designed to transfer money from the inattentive to the vigilant." - Charlie Munger
• "The market is a short-term voting machine and a long-term weighing machine." - Benjamin Graham
• "The stock market is an apparatus for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient." - Warren Buffett
• "Financial markets are a marriage between mathematics and psychology." - Seth Klarman
• "The real risk is not knowing what you're doing." - Warren Buffett
• "The best protection against volatility is long-term ownership of quality stocks." - Jeremy Siegel
• "Diversification is a defense against ignorance." - Warren Buffett
• "Financial markets are a combination of casino and weather." - Ed Seykota
• "Success in investing comes not from predicting the future, but from seeing the present clearly." - Howard Marks
• "Markets are a mixture of math and psychology." - Robert Shiller
• "Markets are a mechanism for transferring money from the impulsive to the patient." - Warren Buffett
• "The market is a mechanism for transferring money from worriers to patients." - Warren Buffett
• "The first rule of investing is not to lose money. The second rule is to remember rule number one." - Warren Buffett
• "Financial markets are a voting machine, not a counting machine." - Martin Zweig
• "Bear markets create the foundation for bull markets." - Bernard Baruch
• "Time is the friend of the exceptional investor and the enemy of the mediocre investor." - Warren Buffett
• "The market is a way of transferring money from assets to patients." - Joel Greenblatt
• "The real reward in investing comes from patience and discipline." - John Bogle
• "Successful investing is about buying companies at prices below their intrinsic value." - Seth Klarman
• "In the short term, the market is a voting machine, but in the long term, it's a weighing machine." - Benjamin Graham
• "Success in investing lies not in predicting the future, but in understanding the present." - Howard Marks
• "Financial markets are not made to be consistent, but to generate profits." - Jesse Livermore

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