Mitt Romney Quotes

I don’t know why the Stock Market does what it does.

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

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

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

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

Nothing ever surprises me about the market.

As I have said before, the daily machinations of the stock market are like a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Nothing important on Wall Street can be counted on to occur exactly in the same way as it happened before.

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.

The stock market is like a small row boat on a rough sea, bouncing around as it drifts, whereas the macro economy is like a large ocean liner, very ponderous and difficult to maneuver but without such a rough journey.

A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.

The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market.

When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed.

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.

I really believe that you cannot use the stock market as a proxy for the economy.

The one thing about markets is that they do not give any advance notice. If they did, they would be arbitraged away.

Markets shouldn't be moving in a straight line.

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.

Unfortunately, slow and steady in any financial market is actually impossible.

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

I think the works of W.D. Gann and Robert Prechter have inspired me more than anyone else. It was from their writings that I discovered cycles, patterns, and psychology dominate the market, and that the news breaks with the cycles, not the other way around.

Bull markets and Bear markets can obscure mathematical laws, they cannot repeal them.

Anything can happen anytime in markets. And no advisor, economist, or TV commentator-and definitely not Charlie nor I-can tell you when chaos will occur. Market forecasters will fill your ear but will never fill your wallet.

The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.