Kapil Sibal Quotes

Predicting the market is always tough.

Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy.

I never try to predict the market.

Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.

The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

Obviously, no one knows when the market is going to bottom out, and I am certainly not an economist.

Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day.

Everybody thinks that they're going to time the market, they're going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.

The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.

There are two kinds of economists in the world. Those who don't know the future and those who don't know that they don't know the future.

Anyone who says he is an expert in the market is lying to you. There is no such thing.

We never know what the Street is going to do with the funky trading.

Listen to market strategists, and a word that comes up a lot these days is 'volatility.'

It is ludicrous to believe that asset bubbles can only be recognized in hindsight.

Markets are unforgiving, and sometimes they move for reasons we can't possibly foresee.

The markets are the world's greatest Rubik's cube. And I love solving puzzles.

I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it's made by Warren Buffett.

Nothing ever surprises me about the market.

People always come up to me and ask what the next 'big short' will be. The truth is I simply do not have an answer, and do not want to have an answer, to this question.

Question: Why does anyone bother to listen to economists anymore? The profession has become an embarrassment, and the most respected economists have shown themselves to have as much predictive power as a deck of tarot cards.

If I've learned anything as an economic analyst, it is that the stock market and economic winds can shift by the hour.

My father was really into it. We would wake up in the morning and look at the markets.

Sometimes economists are right, and sometimes economists are wrong.