John Paulson Quotes

The stock prices of networking equipment companies like Cisco Systems and Nortel Networks sometimes seem as if they are priced for perpetual success.

I really believe that you cannot use the stock market as a proxy for the economy.

There's a company behind every stock and a reason companies - and their stocks - perform the way they do.

When growth is slower-than-expected, stocks go down. When inflation is higher-than-expected, bonds go down. When inflation is lower-than-expected, bonds go up.

The stock market has an insidious effect on C.E.O.s' moods, because of its impact not just on their companies but on their own bank accounts.

Fundamentals make the market.

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

China frequently confounds stock market prognosticators because it has a penchant for straying markedly from other broad global indexes year-by-year over the decades - even from emerging markets. It's hit or miss.

The data strongly suggest that very good years in the U.S. stock market are followed by more good years.

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 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.

What do you call a stock that's down 90%? A stock that was down 80% and then got cut in half.

If you don't follow the stock market, you are missing some amazing drama.

I can find only one bull market, in 1935, that didn't have some material indigestion within its first 12 months.

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

Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy.

There may be a recession in stock prices, but not anything in the nature of a crash..

… a pin lies in wait for every bubble. And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons..

The Wall Street Dow Jones up and down thing that's moving when the stock market's open? That thing freaks me out. It's up, it's down, it's just maddening to me. I guess I'm such a super-focused kind of person that I get distracted really easy. I'll watch that thing, and it's like I'm losing money, I'm getting money. It's just crazy.

September 2001 turned out to be an unusually bad time to sell stocks: By New Year's Day 2002, little more than three months after the post-9/11 low reached on Sept. 21, the S&P 500 had gained close to 20 percent.

I even don't dare to watch our stock price, because this is what other people think who you are. I dare not watch it. I think, let the market take care of themselves; we should take care of the business.

There is no correlation between a weak IPO market and an impact on early-stage VCs.

It is indeed true that the stock market can forecast the business cycle.

I'm not a stock expert by any means. Stocks go up; they go down.