Most of us look forward to the start of a new year as a clean slate. We reflect on the past 12 months, take stock of where we are, and make new resolutions about how to improve in the coming year.
When I meet people on airplanes and they find out I’m an economist, they usually ask about stock tips.
The flukey part of it is, back in the early days, I had that guitar decorated with all kinds of crap wallpaper, ‘Flower Power’ – then that got all shaved off. And during the course of cleaning the bass up again, some of the wood got shaved down, and it probably became a lighter body than the stock factory model.
I grade my stocks. I’m what they call a quant, one of the geeks of the stock market.
Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.
The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.
My experience is that very few people have what it takes to be a successful investor, as I discussed in The Arrogance of Stock Picking.
When you get to be nearly 60, you do take stock. You don’t know what’s around the corner.
I’ve been going to Bicester Village since I was young. My mum and dad really loved that place, and I always used to stock up on clothes. I love the fact that it supports great British designers.
President Trump is growing the economy, growing our jobs market, creating new value in the stock market.
What indexing does is neutralize a large part of the stock market. There’s no trading in those stocks, or almost none.
Who owns the future? This is the question at the heart of every stock market.
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.
Work at a place like Google for awhile: if you do an interview and you say all the right things, no one really cares. But the day you say the wrong sentence, it’s attributed to ‘Senior Google Executive,’ and the stock moves, and everybody hates you.
When I first got to Toronto, we were last in defense, 20-something in offense, we were the laughing stock in the Eastern Conference.
Big money is made in the stock market by being on the right side of the major moves. The idea is to get in harmony with the market. It’s suicidal to fight trends. They have a higher probability of continuing than not.
The stock market can be down, but the stock market is not an indication of where people’s spirits and enthusiam are, and where their intellectual energy is.
I have kind of a weird technique with zucchini. I cut it into small cubes; sweat it in olive oil, adding just a little oil at time so it crisps. Then I cover it with boiling water, not stock, which really brings out the flavor of the zucchini, add lemon, thyme, and serve it with burrata and a fried zucchini flower.
It’s just not good to put stock in a Hollywood celebrity.
I’ve kept a diary since I was 11. It’s a way of taking stock, almost meditative, trying to make sense of stuff because life is chaotic.
As I have said before, the daily machinations of the stock market are like a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
I know that I don’t look like a footballer but I’ve always enjoyed working out and I’ve always been bigger than most people out there. I come from big stock. If you see my brothers and me together, we look like a wrestling tag team trio.
I wish I owned stock in Nicorette. I love Nicorette. Best invention ever.
The robust benefits of employee stock ownership plans are hard to beat.
I’m from durable stock. I’m made to work. I’m Irish.
The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.
Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.
Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
Common hedging techniques include shorting stocks, buying put options, writing call options, and various types of leverage and paired transactions. While I do reserve the right to use these tools if and when appropriate, my firm opinion is that the best hedge is buying an appropriately safe and cheap stock.
Insurance, pension reforms are going to be extremely important for the stock market because the kind of money we’ll get from that is unbelievable.
I could never gamble on stocks and shares because I saw my father get hurt that way – he lost quite a lot of money when the stock market collapsed in 2001.
If you put tariffs in place, it creates inflation. If you put inflation in place, you have to raise interest rates. You raise interest rates, and stock markets shouldn’t be so high.
The film industry has always been unpredictable! It is like the stock market really.
I don’t put a lot of stock into polls.
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 mean I wasn’t a founder in the sense that I contributed anything scientifically but in the sense that I signed the corporation papers and, and owned founder’s stock.
Buzzwords and cliches – those are stock in trade. There’s nothing wrong with them.
Institutions like mutual funds often worry that if they disclose their plans to buy a stock, copycats will move quickly and drive up the stock before the purchase is completed.
Sports Direct should come with a government health warning – this stock is not for the fainthearted.
I’m very much interested in getting prisons off the stock market. I’m very much interested in upgrading the public school system… and taking a second look at capital punishment.
Individual participation in the stock market through 401(k)s helped fuel the go-go days of Wall Street in the 1980s and birthed asset management juggernauts like Fidelity, Vanguard, Pimco, BlackRock, and dozens of others.
My grandmother raised five children during the Depression by herself. At 50, she threw her sewing machine into the back of a pickup truck and drove from North Dakota to California. She was a real survivor, so that’s my stock. That’s how I want my kids to be too.
I’d say the general outline of a sound investment approach is, first of all, you have to decide are you going to try to be an investor yourself? The answer for most people is probably they shouldn’t try. You should put your money in index funds and not try to be a stock picker.
Having a proper understanding of countries’ external positions – current accounts, stock positions, and currencies – is critical to highlight policymakers’ shared responsibility to tackle external imbalances before they become too risky.
The American public historically was really not part of the stock market.
One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don’t change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don’t want to believe what we know.
Turning 50 is a little bit of a ‘taking stock’ moment. I feel probably a little dumber. I don’t think I’m as sharp as I was when I was younger, but I’m definitely wiser and less likely to make gigantic blunders of an intellectual, spiritual, emotional or physical type.
There are so many things we have not seen in ‘Spider-Man’ yet… I want to use bad guys never seen in movies. The first films were so traditional and so scrupulously followed the character’s classic plot… So there’s a lot of stuff left in stock. ‘The Clone Saga,’ for example.
From coast to coast, the FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission have ensnared people not only at hedge funds, but at technology and pharmaceutical companies, consulting and law firms, government agencies, and even a major stock exchange.
Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
When I was in the private sector, one characteristic that differentiated the best entrepreneurs from the others was that they were not in it for the stock options, but for a mission – to deliver something that was helpful… Every entrepreneurial journey, it turns out, is like this.
I always said that if I wasn’t studying psychopaths in prison, I’d do it at the stock exchange.
With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.
When I was racing, I had learned that you can’t set stock in public adoration or your press clippings. By the time I was 26, I’d heard crowds of 100,000 scream my name, but a week later they couldn’t remember who I was. You’re a hero today and a bum tomorrow – hero to zero, I sometimes say.
