Bull Markets Quotes

• A bull market is like sex. It feels best just before it ends.

  Warren Buffett

  Sex, Bulls, Ends

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• There is only one side to the stock market; and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Investing, Bulls, Sides

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• The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy.

  John Templeton

  Investing, Pessimism, Investment

  "Sir John Templeton" by Martin Adeney, www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2008.

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• There will always be bull markets followed by bear markets followed by bull markets

  John Templeton

  Bulls, Bears

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• Bull-markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.

  John Templeton

  Optimistic, Optimism, Investing

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• The last leg of a bull market always ends in hysteria; the last leg of a bear market always ends in panic.

  Jim Rogers

  Hysteria, Bulls, Legs

  Jim Rogers (2014). “Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World's Best Market”, p.46, John Wiley & Sons

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• One of the frustrating things for people who miss the first rally in a bull market is that they wait for the big correction and it never comes. The market just keeps climbing and climbing. It feeds on itself in frenzied fashion and propels prices considerably higher for six months or so, and sometimes longer.

  Martin Zweig

  Fashion, Climbing, People

  Martin Zweig (2009). “Martin Zweig Winning on Wall Street”, p.60, Hachette UK

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• Don't confuse brains with a bull market.

  Humphrey B. Neill

  Brain, Bulls

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• Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

  Donald Trump

  Inspirational, Investing Money, Investment Success

  Donald Trump (2016). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.26, Random House

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• As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius.

  Ron Chernow

  Genius, Investing, Bulls

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• There are two kinds of investors, be thay large or small: those who don't know where the market is headed, and those who don't know that they don't know.

  William J. Bernstein

  Two, Kind, Investment

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• Investment success does not require glamour stocks or bull markets.

  John Neff

  Investment Success, Doe, Bulls

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• Bull markets and Bear markets can obscure mathematical laws, they cannot repeal them.

  Warren Buffett

  Law, Bulls, Bears

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• Timidity prompted by past failures causes investors to miss the most important bull markets.

  Walter Schloss

  Past, Missing, Important

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• Bull markets are born on pessimism, grown on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy, and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell.

  John Templeton

  Optimism, Investing, Bulls

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• It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Thinking, Sitting, Investment

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• Bull markets go to people's heads. If you're a duck on a pond, and it's rising due to a downpour, you start going up in the world. But you think it's you, not the pond.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Ducks, People

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• Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, War, Opportunity

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• Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Men, Uncommon, Speculators

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• 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

  Money, Years, Greatest Wealth

  "The Big Lie Exposed: The Future is Not Predictable" by Jeff Schweitzer, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2009.

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• Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that develop, particularly during the long bull market.

  Ron Chernow

  Long, Healthy, Excess

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• In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that its paddling skills have caused it to rise in the world. A right-thinking duck would instead compare its position after the downpour to that of the other ducks on the pond.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Errors, Skills

  1997 Chairman's Letter, www.berkshirehathaway.com. February 27, 1998.

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• There is no training, classroom or otherwise, that can prepare for trading the last third of a move, whether it's the end of a bull market or the end of a bear market.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Moving, Training, Bulls

  Institutional Investor Interview, www.institutionalinvestor.com. June 30, 2008.

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• As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin.

  Ron Chernow

  Sex, Punishment, People

  "Ron Chernow is the author of 'The House of Morgan' and 'The Warburgs'". Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org.

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• Disregarding the big swing and trying to jump in and out was fatal to me. Nobody can catch all the fluctuations. In a bull market your game is to buy and hold until you believe that the bull market is near its end. To do this you must study general conditions and not tips or special factors affecting individual stocks.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Believe, Swings, Games

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