Christine Lagarde Quotes

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

I believe, in the stock market - that's one of my fields - that most people are irrational. And to be irrational, you can be irrational in so many different ways that, practically, the result is indeterminate.

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.

The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient.

The stock market is a discounter of all known information.

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

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

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

While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster

One thing on psychology, which we've always known, is that every investor says they're long-term - and they are until the market takes a hit.

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.

The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.

There is a lot of risk in the tech sector.

Markets are self-regulating only because some brave investors are prepared to bet against the market trend.

The stock exchange is a poor substitute for the Holy Grail.

… there is little rhyme or reason to the going up or coming down of the [Stock] Market

The markets do numbers, not nuance.

All market response results from a reduction of uncertainty.

One of the reasons why we can make a lot of money in equity markets is because they're auction-driven, and auction-driven markets are very different from almost any other kind of market.

The problem with most people who play the market is that they are not flexible.

Market risk is like taking a plunge into a cool pool ... a lot of people are finding out right now what their risk tolerance is.

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

If it is hard to imagine that 20% of losses on the stock market, you should never participate

At heart, "uncertainty" and "investing" are synonyms.

Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.