Great Market Quotes

Wednesday, August 08, 2007 | 03:30 PM

In light of the recent market action, this collection of market quotes is quite apropos:

"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."
— John Maynard Keynes

"The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance."
— Oscar Wilde

"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed."
— Kin Hubbard

"The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them."
— Peter Lynch

"If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem."
— JP Getty

"You try to be greedy when others are fearful, and fearful when others are greedy."
— Warren Buffett

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing."
— Oscar Wilde

"Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It is to see my dividends coming in."
— John D. Rockefeller

"A gold miner is a liar standing beside a hole in the ground."
— Mark Twain

"There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody."
— Adlai Stevenson

"It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges."
— John Maynard Keynes

"The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. "
— Frank Hubbard

"Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have."
— Ernest Haskins

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"You try to be greedy when others are fearful, and fearful when others are greedy." That would imply we all should have bought on Thursday and Friday of last week, wouldn't it?

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BR: Depends upon your definition of greed and fear -- I don't know about you, but I certainly do not define any market within 4% of its all time highs as one that is filled with fear.

Posted by: Bill aka NO DooDahs! | Jul 30, 2007 3:51:10 PM

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