The best quotes about finance and stock markets
Either we’ve read it on a book, heard it on a movie, or simply listened to it on a speech made by some celebrity, quotes about finance and stock markets are usually the product of astuteness and a good sense of humor. After a long research, we came up with a shortlist of the 10 most funny and true-telling quotes about the financial world and modern economy. Sometimes you may even be able to read it on a book. Nevertheless, here’s the result:
#1: “The most precious asset in life is time.”
— Warren Buffet
#2: “The four most dangerous words in investing are ‘This time it’s different.”
— Sir John Templeton
#3: “Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
— Oscar Wilde
#4: “Credit is just a ‘pretty’ name for DEBT.”
— Richard Russell
#5: “Stay in love with a security until the security gets overvalued, then let somebody else fall in love with it.”
— Roy Neuberger
#6: “Obviousness is always the enemy of correctness.”
— Bertrand Russell
#7: “When an economist says the evidence is ‘mixed’, he or she means that theory says one thing and data says the opposite.”
— Richard Thaler
#8: “I know from experience that nobody can give me a tip that will make more money for me than my own judgment.”
— Jesse Livermore
#9: “The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.”
— Jean-Paul Kauffmann
#10: “Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.”
— Bill Vaughan
#11: “Wall Street’s graveyards are filled with men who were right too soon.”
— William Hamilton
#12: “In the stock market, those who expect history to repeat itself exactly are doomed to failure.”
— Yale Hirsch
#13: “When investment decisions need to consider the speed of light, something is seriously wrong.”
— Frank M. Bifulco
#14: “Adults are just children who earn money.”
— Kenneth Branaugh
#15: “Some people will do anything for money – even work.”
— P.K. Shaw
#16: “The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.”
— John Kenneth Galbraith
#17: “Never invest in any idea you can’t illustrate with a crayon.”
— Peter Lynch
#18: “Become more humble as the market goes your way.”
— Bernard Baruch
#19: “When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now that I’m old–I know it is.”
— Oscar Wilde
#20: “The point of advertising is to destroy markets.”
— Noam Chomsky
About the Author: Guilherme Neto
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