Warren Buffett Quotes

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

Of all the mysteries of the stock exchange there is none so impenetrable as why there should be a buyer for everyone who seeks to sell.

I always said that if I wasn't studying psychopaths in prison, I'd do it at the stock exchange.

Markets love volatility.

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.

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.

In fact, of all hoodoos in Wall Street I think the resolve to induce the stock market to act as a fairy godmother is the busiest and most persistent.

Warren Buffett is fond of saying that any player unaware of the fool in the market probably is the fool in the market.

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

The stock market is the world’s largest Oujie Board.

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

Buying securities is usually easier than selling securities.

The markets do numbers, not nuance.

Debt is the lifeblood of finance; with the rise of the securities-and-trading portion of the [financial] industry came a rise in all kinds [of debt], both public and private.

Who owns the future? This is the question at the heart of every stock market.

The markets are the world's greatest Rubik's cube. And I love solving puzzles.

One of the greatest technicians of all time was a man named W. D. Gann (1878-1955). He had tremendous success predicting market moves much in advance. Legend has it that he occasionally sent notes to 'The Wall Street Journal', which accurately predicted tops and bottoms in grain markets months ahead of time.

In my first book, 'Ghosts Of Manhattan,' the setting was Wall Street, and I explored the predictable nature of a bond trader inside the compensation scheme at Bear Stearns and the government regulations of Wall Street. That was about money.

Most stocks bought and sold on Wall Street are held in what's called 'street name.'

My father was really into it. We would wake up in the morning and look at the markets.

I used to do a lot of the day trading and the stocks. I used to have the Ameritrade and trade options.

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

There's something on Wall Street called PIG - panic, ignorance, and greed. Those are the big sins. I'm not greedy, I knew I was ignorant, and I didn't panic.

Investing is the greatest business in the world because you never have to swing. You stand at the plate; the pitcher throws you General Motors at 47! U.S. Steel at 39! And nobody calls a strike on you. There's no penalty except opportunity. All day you wait for the pitch you like; then, when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.