Markets Quotes

Here's something I still can't get over. Amazes and thrills me every time. I'm sitting here and want a certain book. So I search, click, and then I have the book. Every time, my heart does a little leap of joy. What a beautiful world the market is making.

~ Jeffrey Tucker

The valuations which result in determination of definite prices are different. Each party attaches a higher value to the good he receives than to that he gives away. The exchange ratio, the price, is not the product of equality of valuation, but on the contrary, the product of a discrepancy in valuation.

~ Ludwig Von Mises

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.

~ Charles Wheelan

In this way the world market is, with regard to its immanent dynamic, 'a space in which everyone has once been a productive labourer, and in which labour has everywhere begun to price itself out of the system'.

~ Slavoj Žižek

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

~ David Graeber

The Industrial Revolution appears to be in its final stages and it will be remembered as a time where industrial stock markets were at historic highs at the same time that many natural processes were shutting down, including the next generation of humans.

~ Steven Magee

It is an economic fact that predicting the future is most valuable when everybody thinks you are wrong

~ Derek Thompson

Bad economics teaches that computers can design markets. Good economics teaches that markets can design computers.

~ Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

... toxic derivatives were underpinned by toxic economics, which, in turn, were no more than motivated delusions in search of theoretical justification; fundamentalist tracts that acknowledged facts only when they could be accommodated to the demands of the lucrative faith. Despite their highly impressive labels and technical appearance, economic models were merely mathematized versions of the touching superstition that markets know best, both at times of tranquility and in periods of tumult.

~ Yanis Varoufakis

To discern profits only when it is within the ken of the market herd is not the acme of investing excellence

~ Amah Lambert

There are no good or bad stocks. The company is either good or bad. Stocks are just stocks.

~ Kenneth L. Fisher

No man can always have adequate reasons for buying or selling stocks daily - or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play.

~ Edwin Lefèvre

The stock market is almost magical because it always leads the economy. It goes down long before the economy drops and then heads higher long before the economy rebounds. It always has.

~ Kenneth L. Fisher

It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.

~ Andrei Codrescu