Quotes from "Tuesdays With Morrie"

Quotes from "Tuesdays With Morrie"
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Friday, June 25, 2010

Ten Funny Wall Street Quotes




I made a killing on Wall Street ago...I shot my broker. - Groucho Marx

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After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. - Jesse Livermore

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When asked what the stock market will do, J.P. Morgan (1837-1913) (banker, financier, businessman) replied: "It will fluctuate."

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Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered. - Anonymous

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Over the Counter: Where you'll be getting your food from when you go out to dinner, after losing your money in the stock market.

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If stock markets experts were so expert, they would be buying stocks, not selling advice. - Norman R. Augustine

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One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute. - William Feather

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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my age, I don't even buy green bananas." - Claude Pepper

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Ever wonder why fund managers can't beat the S&P 500? 'Cause they're sheep, and sheep get slaughtered. - Gordon Gekko ("Wall Street", 1987)

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The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent - John Maynard
Keynes



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