Bill Gates Quotes

We feel that fundamentally Wall Street is sound, and that for people who can afford to pay for them outright, good stocks are cheap at these prices

Predicting the market is always tough.

In the summer of 1990, I was buying stocks and I was probably three or four months early there. But we had a great rally in 1991.

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

The good news is, the stock market is closed and it can't hurt us again until tomorrow.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.

In college I started studying the stock market. I went down to the stock exchange, watched all the activity from the visitors' gallery, people running around, calling numbers, shouting, and all the paper flying and the bells ringing, and of course that was exciting, and it seemed to lend itself to my analytical skills.

We've only made three investments: Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga.

We don't think much about the up and down of the public market.

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

I don't think objectively we are in a tech bubble when tech stocks are at a 30 year low.

I think the value of venues like CNBC is that they give investors an opportunity to reevaluate the situation minute by minute, but maybe we don't need to follow the market so closely.

Any time you speak to people about their posture, you learn about their most recent investment activity. When someone just bought stocks, they tend to be bullish; someone who just sold is bearish.

I am not criticizing investing in the stock market; I am an investor.

To this day, I'm a slave to CNBC.

The stock market is a discounter of all known information.

The stock market to me was like a video game. When it went off, it was like turning the game off. It wasn't something I'd think about until I'd turn the machine on again.

Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Stock prices relative to company assets are no better at signaling the likelihood of future earnings growth than they were the day the Titanic sank, and risk management is a good deal worse.

I've just done a commercial in the U.S. in which I talk about stocks, shares and bonds. Everyone is amazed. They ask me: 'You really know about that stuff or did you just learn it for the commercial?' I tell them I wouldn't do it unless I understood and had an interest.

I'm quite bullish. We're coming up on year 15 of a flat stock market. Historically that's a pretty good sign. So I'm not a hedge-fund manager but if I was I think I'd be feeling pretty good.

I've always wanted to invest. That's why I started working on Wall Street in the first place, back in 1986 when I went through the Salomon Brothers training program.

The best way to make money on Wall Street is to sell the most sophisticated [and complex] products to the most unsophisticated clients.