Stock Market Quotes

The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains.

~ Mark Skousen

It is indeed true that the stock market can forecast the business cycle.

~ Paul Samuelson

First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense of economic insecurity.

~ Thomas E. Mann

Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.

~ Allan Savory

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

I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful.

~ Regis Philbin

Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.

~ Jacob Hacker

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

~ Hendrik Willem Van Loon

China's stock market is inextricably tied to politics.

~ Kenneth Fisher

It's one of the fundamental principles of the stock market: When interest rates go up, stocks go down. And along with financial companies and cyclicals, technology companies - with their sky-high price-to-earnings multiples - should be among the biggest losers in an environment of rising rates.

~ Alex Berenson

Technology investment drove growth in the 1990s, both directly and by fueling a rising stock market that led to increased consumer spending.

~ Alex Berenson

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.

~ Warren Buffett

I think that stocks have been this tremendous, tremendous equalizer for people in this country. Guys who can't make a lot of money at their jobs have been able to make a lot of money in the stock market.

~ Jim Cramer

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.

~ Irene Peter