Thursday, November 7, 2013

20 Funny Stock Market Quotes

Sometimes upbeat is in the news, sometimes downbeat makes headlines; Sometimes bull roars on wall street; sometimes bear shows their mettle. Hardly there will be someone who haven't heard about stock market. With a recession currently going on worldwide, its hard to say if someone is not affected. Amid the bull and bear phases, some investor gags over stock market with their funny quotes. Below, I have compiled some 20 funny stock market quotes by some great and well known personalities of investment world.

1. "Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway." - Warren Buffett.
2. "Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it." - Peter Lynch.
3. "I made a killing in the stock market. My broker lost all my money, so I killed him." - Jim Loy.
4. "Every day, self-proclaimed stock market "experts" tell us why the market just went up or down, as if they really knew. So where were they yesterday?" - Anonymous.
5. "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.
6. "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.
7. "If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice." - Norman R. Augustine.
8. "Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make." - Donald Trump.
9. "If you don't follow the stock market, you are missing some amazing drama." - Mark Cuban.
10. "Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction." - Warren Buffett.
11. "The worst possible outcome for the stock market is that it takes a month to decide the election," - Jason Schenker.
12. "Do you have any idea how cheap stocks are now? Wall Street is now being called Wal-Mart Street." - Jay Leno.
13. "The United States have developed a new weapon that destroys people but it leaves buildings standing. It's called the stock market." - Jay Leno.
14. "Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery." - Spike Milligan.
15. "In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield." - Warren Buffett.
16. "Wall Street is one big turf war.. by benefiting one person you are disadvantaging another person." - Bernard Madoff.
17. "Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it." - Peter Lynch.
18. "Sell to the sleeping point.-if you are troubled by an investment but still desire to hang onto it,sell just enough so that you can feel that you've 'dealt' with the anxiety and can calmly sleep at night, but you've kept enough to feel comfortable with what you have left." - Anonymous.
19. "Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make." - Donald Trump.
20. "There are two kinds of investors, be they large or small: those who don't know where the market is headed, and those who don't know that they don't know. Then again, there is a third type of investor -the investment professional, who indeed knows that he or she doesn't know, but whose livelihood depends upon appearing to know." - Bernstein, William.
Author: Dinesh Yadav.