Alex Berenson Quotes

In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.

I don't rely on off-shore tax havens, and I don't want to invest in stocks and shares as we have seen how volatile that game has been since the financial crash.

Even from the very beginning, I didn't put any money in the stock market.

Wall Street is always too biased toward short-term profitability and biased against long-term growth.

Do we have to regulate derivatives? Yes, we do. 'Cause when I did this in my investments, frankly, no one knew who could pay who. But derivatives have an important place in our economy.

When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.

I don't think it makes any sense for an individual to invest in common stocks unless they know the company, work at the company, and so on.

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 invested in many companies, and I'm happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don't like capitalism, you don't like making money with stock, move to Cuba or China.

I could never gamble on stocks and shares because I saw my father get hurt that way - he lost quite a lot of money when the stock market collapsed in 2001.

The party line is that stocks historically have outperformed all other investment plans.

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

In the world I've known most of my life, old stories quickly lose their power over capital markets and get replaced by new surprises. That which everyone fixates on gets priced into the stock market quickly and can't drag on.

Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public.

As long as there is cash, and the economy is running, all is well. But as a bank, we'll have to test, experiment, try a hundred different things. A few may work, a few may fail, but we have to experiment and try.

Remember, gold and silver always have had value and never have gone to zero. Can you say the same for stocks and bonds?

Investor confidence in Adani is fairly high, and most of our investors are long-term investors.

I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia.

I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.

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

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.

Stocks change. Industries change. But the underlying reasons certain stocks are good investments remain the same. Only the fullness of time reveals which are the most sound.

The main thing during a crisis is discipline, to begin investing in time again after the crisis subsides.