Stock Price Quotes

• The stock market really isn't a gamble, as long as you pick good companies that you think will do well, and not just because of the stock price.

  Peter Lynch

  Thinking, Long, Good Company

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Stock prices turn people's heads. When prices are high, we treat a company like gods, and if they drop, we treat them as fools.

  Paul Saffo

  People, Fool, Treats

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Companies that get confused, that think their goal is revenue or stock price or something. You have to focus on the things that lead to those.

  Tim Cook

  Confused, Thinking, Goal

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• There may be a recession in stock prices, but not anything in the nature of a crash.

  Irving Fisher

  Depression, May, Crash

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• If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself.

  James Sinegal

  Eye, Goal, Care

  "Online Extra: At Costco, 'Good Jobs and Good Wages'". Interview with Michelle Conlin, www.bloomberg.com. May 31, 2004.

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• If you look at academic studies, you can see that stock prices are most closely correlated with cash flow. It's such a straightforward number. Cash flow is what will drive shareholder returns.

  Jeff Bezos

  Cash Flow, Numbers, Looks

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• Stock prices aren't real things. They're just froth on a wave. The wave is the only real thing, which investors forget when they're watching the ticket slither by.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Real, Tickets, Forget

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• Stock prices are likely to be among the prices that are relatively vulnerable to purely social movements because there is no accepted theory by which to understand the worth of stocks....investors have no model or at best a very incomplete model of behavior of prices, dividend, or earnings, of speculative assets.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Investing, Movement, Earning

  "Martket Volatility". Book by Robert J. Shiller, www.businessinsider.com. 1992.

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• Samuelson spotted a mistake in Bacheliers work. Bachelier's model had failed to consider that stock prices cannot fall below zero.

  William Poundstone

  Zero, Mistake, Fall

  William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.122, Macmillan

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• I think markets are often not thinking on a long-time horizon, I think that our government structurally is doing even less so. When we have a government where we have people who are up for election at most once every six years for a U.S. senator, that's a time horizon that is much shorter than in a market that a company is looking at 10, 15, 20 years which is a time horizon over which a stock price is typically valued.

  Peter Thiel

  Thinking, Government, Years

  Interview with Victoria Brown, bigthink.com. November 15, 2010.

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• A major boom in real stock prices in the US after Black Tuesday brought them halfway back to 1929 levels by 1930. This was followed by a second crash, another boom from 1932 to 1937, and a third crash. Speculative bubbles do not end like a short story, novel, or play. There is no final denouement that brings all the strands of a narrative into an impressive final conclusion. In the real world, we never know when the story is over.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Real, Play, Tuesday

  "Speculative bubbles don't just pop - they may deflate and reflate" by Robert J. Shiller, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2013.

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• Index funds are... tax friendly, allowing investors to defer the realization of capital gains or avoid them completely if the shares are later bequeathed. To the extent that the long-run uptrend in stock prices continues, switching from security to security involves realizing capital gains that are subject to tax. Taxes are a crucially important financial consideration because the earlier realization of capital gains will substantially reduce net returns.

  Burton Malkiel

  Running, Long, Friendly

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• Although there are good and bad companies, there is no such thing as a good stock; there are only good stock prices, which come and go.

  Benjamin Graham

  Investing, Bad Company, Good And Bad

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• When stock prices are rising, it's called ''momentum investing''; when they are falling, it's called ''panic.''

  Paul Krugman

  Fall, Momentum, Investing

  "Reckonings; Goldilocks And the Bears". www.nytimes.com. April 16, 2000.

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• Speculators are obsessed with predicting: guessing the direction of stock prices. Every morning on cable television, every afternoon on the stock market report, every weekend in Barron's, every week in dozens of market newsletters, and whenever business people get together. In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a purely speculative undertaking.

  Seth Klarman

  Morning, Weekend, Reality

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• If a lot of people feel like this company is undervalued and go out and buy the stock, the stock price will go up reflecting the higher value of this company. You might have information because you trade with them or because you've done some research on them.

  Robert F. Engle

  People, Done, Research

  Source: bigthink.com

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• If you have information that a company is not as good as its stock market valuation, you don't have a way to sell that stock unless you already own it. And so that information doesn't get incorporated in the company's stock price as fast if you don't allow short selling.

  Robert F. Engle

  Information, Way, Selling

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Stocks always go down much faster than they go up. That's why it's called a crash. People who put their money into the stocks will find, all of a sudden, that stock prices are no longer being supported by the debt leveraging that's been holding them up.

  Michael Hudson

  People, Debt, Crash

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The only way an established enterprise can dramatically increase its stock price is by adding a net new high-growth earnings engine to its existing portfolio.

  Geoffrey Moore

  Growth, Way, Earning

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Large companies and government agencies have a lot to protect and therefore are not willing to take big risks. A large company taking a risk can threaten its stock price. A government agency taking a risk can threaten congressional investigation.

  Peter Diamandis

  Agency, Government, Risk

  "Why Billion-Dollar, 100-Year-Old Companies DIE" by Peter Diamandis, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2013.

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• I'm not against government involvement in times of need. I am for recognizing that big public companies will continue to cut jobs in an effort to prop up stock prices, which in turn stimulates the need for more government involvement.

  Mark Cuban

  Jobs, Cutting, Government

  "MARK CUBAN: The Most Patriotic Thing You Can Do". www.businessinsider.com. September 19, 2011.

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• I favour passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.

  Merton Miller

  Successful, Investing, Information

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• If you expect to be a net saver during the next 5 years, should you hope for a higher or lower stock market during that period? Many investors get this one wrong. Even though they are going to be net buyers of stocks for many years to come, they are elated when stock prices rise and depressed when they fall. This reaction makes no sense. Only those who will be sellers of equities in the near future should be happy at seeing stocks rise. Prospective purchasers should much prefer sinking prices.

  Warren Buffett

  Fall, Years, Next

  Chairman's Letter to the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. 1997.

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• Here’s how to know if you have the makeup to be an investor. How would you handle the following situation? Let’s say you own a Procter & Gamble in your portfolio and the stock price goes down by half. Do you like it better? If it falls in half, do you reinvest dividends? Do you take cash out of savings to buy more? If you have the confidence to do that, then you’re an investor. If you don’t, you’re not an investor, you’re a speculator, and you shouldn’t be in the stock market in the first place.

  Seth Klarman

  Fall, Makeup, Saving

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• There's no denying that a collapse in stock prices today would pose serious macroeconomic challenges for the United States. Consumer spending would slow, and the U.S. economy would become less of a magnet for foreign investors. Economic growth, which in any case has recently been at unsustainable levels, would decline somewhat. History proves, however, that a smart central bank can protect the economy and the financial sector from the nastier side effects of a stock market collapse.

  Ben Bernanke

  Smart, Challenges, Growth

  "A Crash Course for Central Bankers" by Ben Bernanke, foreignpolicy.com. Novemeber 20, 2009.

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