Bull Markets Quotes - Page 2

• There are two kinds of investors, be they large or small: those who don't know where the market is headed and those who don't know what they don't know. Then again, there is a third type of investor: the investment professional, who indeed knows he doesn't know, but whose livelihood depends upon appearing to know.

  William J. Bernstein

  Two, Kind, Investment

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• It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It was always my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight!

  Edwin Lefevre

  Thinking, Sitting, Made

  Edwin Lefèvre (2004). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.75, John Wiley & Sons

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• Before this century is over, the Dow Jones Industrial Average will probably be over one million versus around 10,000 now. So for the long-term, the outlook is tremendously bullish if you buy stocks blindly to keep for a century.

  John Templeton

  Optimistic, Average, Long

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• In most bull markets there comes a time when the public controls fluctuations and the efforts of the largest operators are insufficient to check the rising tide.

  Charles Dow

  Effort, Investing, Rising

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• Whenever the investor sold out in an upswing as soon as the top level of the previous well-recognized bull market was reached, he had a chance in the next bear market to buy back at one third (or better) below his selling price.

  Benjamin Graham

  Bulls, Levels, Next

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• A market does not culminate in one grand blaze of glory. Neither does it end with a sudden reversal of form. A market can and does often cease to be a bull market long before prices generally begin to break.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Long, Doe, Bulls

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• Any bull market covers a multitude of sins, so there may be all sorts of problems with the current system that we won't see until the bear market comes.

  Ron Chernow

  Bears, Bulls, May

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• Bull markets are great, but they breed complacency. Bear markets can be energizing. Instead of fretting over the decline in your net worth, think opportunistically about all those bargains - and the potential gains when, inevitably, a bull market returns.

  James Stewart

  Thinking, Bulls, Complacency

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• It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight! It is no trick at all to be right on the market. You always find lots of early bulls in bull markets and early bears in bear markets. I've known many men who were right at exactly the right time, and began buying or selling stocks when prices were at the very level which should show the greatest profit. And their experience invariably matched mine--that is, they made no real money out of it. Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon.

  Edwin Lefevre

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• I think we're in the beginning of a bull market. When a bull market begins, nine months later the economy turns around.

  Sumner Redstone

  Thinking, Bulls, Nine

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• They say you never grow poor taking profits. No, you don't. But neither do you grow rich taking a four-point profit in a bull market. Where I should have made twenty thousand dollars I made two thousand. That was what conservatism did for me.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Should Have, Two, Twenties

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• I never hesitate to tell a man that I am bullish or bearish. But I do not tell people to buy or sell any particular stock. In a bear market all stocks go down and in a bull market they go up.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Men, People, Investing

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• Fundamentals might be good for the first third or first 50 or 60 percent of a move, but the last third of a great bull market is typically a blow-off, whereas the mania runs wild and prices go parabolic... 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

  Running, Moving, Blow

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• ...first check whether the market as a whole is rising or falling. In other words, are you in a bull market or bear market? If the latter, stay out. The odds are against you.

  Nicolas Darvas

  Fall, Odds, Rising

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• Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.

  Jim Rogers

  Years, Bulls, Commodity

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• I caught hold of the great bull market in soybeans in 1977. I had no idea what I was doing, incidentally.

  Bruce Kovner

  Ideas, Bulls, Soybeans

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• Speculators often prosper through ignorance; it is a cliché that in a roaring bull market knowledge is superfluous and experience is a handicap. But the typical experience of the speculator is one of temporary profit and ultimate loss

  Benjamin Graham

  Ignorance, Loss, Typical

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• Occasionally we are asked whether it would make sense to modify our investment strategy to perform better in today's financial climate. Our answer, as you might guess, is: No! It would be easyfor us to capitulate to the runaway bull market in growth and technology stocks. And foolhardy. And irresponsible. And unconscionable. It is always easiest to run with the herd; at times, it can take a deep reservoir of courage and conviction to stand apart from it. Yet distancing yourself from the crowd is an essential component of long-term investment success.

  Seth Klarman

  Running, Technology, Investment Success

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• A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market.

  Ron Chernow

  Long, Bulls, Crash

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• In Reno, there is always a bull market, never a bear market, for the stocks and bonds of happiness.

  Virgilia Peterson

  Divorce, Cities, Bulls

  Virgilia Peterson (1961). “A Matter of Life and Death”, Bantam Books

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• Too many people are apt to redeem their profits too quickly. In a huge bull market they wind up with piddling profits, only to watch their former holdings soar. That usually prompts them into making mistakes later when, believing that the market owes them some money, they buy at the wrong time at much higher levels.

  Martin Zweig

  Mistake, Believe, Wind

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• To me the gold price takes the form of a very uncomplicated formula, and all you have to do is divide one by 'n.' And 'n', I'm glad you ask, 'n' is the world's trust in the institution of paper money and in the capacity of people like Ben Bernanke to manage it. So the smaller 'n', the bigger the price. One divided by a receding number is the definition of a bull market.

  James Grant

  Numbers, People, Gold

  "Jim Grant: America Will Resolve Her Debt By Returning To The Gold Standard" by Gus Lubin, www.businessinsider.com. April 14, 2011.

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