Stock Quotes

• The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.

  

  James Monroe
  • Stock

• The stock market is a discounter of all known information.

  

  Kenneth Fisher
  • Stock

• In taking stock of ourselves, we should not forget that fear plays a large part in the drama of failure. That is the first thing to be dropped. Fear is a mental deficiency susceptible of correction, if taken in hand before it gains an ascendency over us. Fear comes with the thought of failure.

  

  Douglas Fairbanks
  • Fear
  • Hand
  • Taken

• I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.

  

  Anita Roddick
  • School
  • Business
  • Financial

• I helped start a ceramics company called CPS Technologies. We took it public in 1987 at $12 a share. Three months later, there was this horrible cliff: Black Monday. Fidelity had bought 15 percent of our stock, and their algorithm caused them to dump it all onto the market that day. We dropped from $12 to $2.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Black
  • Stock
  • Monday

• We should take stock of Iran and discuss how we might best pursue the nuclear file over the coming weeks.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Iran
  • Persue
  • Nuclear file

• The stock market was created by the telegraph and the telephone, and its panics are engineered by carefully orchestrated stories in the press. (p. 106)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Stock

• All my money is in a savings account. My dad has explained the stock market to me maybe 75 times. I still don't understand it.

  

  John Mulaney
  • Money
  • Dad
  • Stock

• I eat fish and love bacon. Plus, I don't mind if soups are made with chicken or beef stock, I just don't like eating big pieces of meat.

  

  Lisa Loeb
  • Mind
  • Stock

• I stock up on nuts, protein shakes, protein bars, seeds, and have them everywhere - the car, wherever - for when I'm on the move.

  

  Keith Barry
  • Up
  • Car
  • Stock

• Back in 2000 a Republican friend warned me that if I voted for Al Gore and he won, the stock market would tank, we'd lose millions of jobs, and our military would be totally overstretched. You know what? I did vote for Al Gore, he did win, and I'll be damned if all those things didn't come true!

  

  James Carville
  • True
  • Friend
  • Military

• I started out in summer stock, and that's really what I prefer.

  

  Andrea Martin
  • Summer
  • Stock

• Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.

  

  John Zimmerman
  • Great
  • Stock

• I see that I have, as part of my stock in trade, a very regal personality and carriage. I see that I have a kind of strength, a kind of command, and a kind of power that one would associated with a monarch.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • Power
  • Personality
  • Stock

• In 1984, I starred in 'Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan,' my first movie. My lines ended up being dubbed by Glenn Close, supposedly because my accent was 'too southern'. It was completely humiliating at the time. I became a laughing stock. I'm amazed that I managed to pick myself up and dust myself off.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• In my view, the biggest investment risk is not the volatility of prices, but whether you will suffer a permanent loss of capital. Not only is the mere drop in stock prices not risk, but it is an opportunity. Where else do you look for cheap stocks?

  

  Li Lu
  • Opportunity
  • Risk
  • Stock

• I've never been happy doing stock work; I've never been happy thinking that I haven't changed something.

  

  Jonathan Glazer
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Happy

• The average trade of an individual is in the thousands of shares, whereas the institutional trade can be in the millions of shares. Clearly, the bigger the order, the bigger the move in the stock.

  

  Maria Bartiromo
  • Stock

• We believe the lower top-line growth in Q4' 00 versus expectations and uncertainty over Amazon's top-line growth going forward will overshadow the operational achievements that we felt were necessary to achieve operating profitability by Q4 ' 01 and subsequently could have driven stock price appreciation.

  

  Anthony Noto
  • Believe
  • Growth
  • Appreciation

• When it comes to valuation, there's only one thing stock investors really care about, which is earnings.

  

  James B. Stewart
  • Stock

• Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.

  

  Peter Lynch
  • Stock
  • Math

• Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade.

  

  Marlene Dietrich
  • Stock

• All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate them.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Men
  • Broken
  • Stock

• Stock exchanges say that more than half of all trades are now executed by just a handful of high-frequency traders, who use rapid-fire computers to essentially force slower investors to give up profits, then disappear before anyone knows what happened.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Up
  • High
  • Fire

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