Marc Faber Quotes

Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline.

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.

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

The stock market is not a good arbitrator of success over the long term.

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.

The one stock in my portfolio which I say hasn't worked yet but has the potential for a big home run is General Motors.

Cheer the bull, or cheer the bear; cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten.

You could lose hundreds or thousands one day on paper and gain it all back the next, and it has literally no effect on your immediate future, provided the money you have in the market is money you're investing for the long haul (meaning at least three to five years).

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

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.

Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better.

I think that I could have been take apart if the bear market continued, but I waited three years before I felt the bear market was over and I was right.

The trend of the market is up, not down. Shorting stocks puts you against that trend and thus makes it more difficult to make money.

I don't invest in the stock market. I did it a long, long time ago when I was really young, and I got involved in all the investigations and all the prosecutions, and I felt it was better if I didn't make individual investments. So I'm invested in funds, but not in individual - not in individual stocks.

Whenever you hear a discussion about the short-term swings in any given stock's price, your immediate thought should be whether it matters to why you are investing.

I have a million dollars in the stock market, because if I lose a million dollars, I don't personally care.

The upward move at the beginning of a bull market is almost always huge compared with the vacillations late in the bear market. If you try to pick a bottom, you will miss a good part of the action.

People often panic when the markets go down and sell off their stocks - but then they aren't in the game when the markets are doing well.

I had a few stocks, but stocks took a dive. I never sell my stocks.

There is a substantial correlation between an election year and how the market finishes.

You'll get nowhere buying stocks just because they have a great story.

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.

Never invest emergency savings in the stock market.

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.

Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.