Stock Price Quotes - Page 2

• Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.

  Charles Jaffe

  Business, Cutting, Two

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• Companies that succeed are driven by internal ambition. Stock price doesn’t drive them. Ambition and values drive them.

  Sumantra Ghoshal

  Ambition, Succeed, Driven

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• Greenspan's eventual explanation for the growing gap between stock prices and actual productivity was that, fortuitously, the laws of nature had changed -- humanity had reached a happy stage of history where bullshit could be used as rocket fuel.

  Matt Taibbi

  Law, Bullshit, Humanity

  Matt Taibbi (2010). “Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America”, p.60, Spiegel & Grau

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• What an economy really wants, after all, is not more investment per se but better investment. It wants capital to flow to companies that will create value - not in the form of a rising stock price but in the form of more goods for less cost, more jobs, and rising wages - by enhancing productivity.

  James Surowiecki

  Jobs, Cost, Wages

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• The key is if the economic data stays soft, maybe we don't have to worry much about interest rates anymore. Then we need to worry about earnings. What gave us a really strong move in stock prices from late May until about two weeks ago was this heightened optimism that maybe interest rates are at that high. That gave you a relief rally. Now reality is setting in - if we've seen the worst on interest rates then we've seen the best on earnings.

  Douglas Cliggott

  Strong, Moving, Reality

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• Then, in the 1980's, came the paroxysm of downsizing, and the very nature of the corporation was thrown into doubt. In what began almost as a fad and quickly matured into an unshakable habit, companies were 'restructuring,' 'reengineering,' and generally cutting as many jobs as possible, white collar as well as blue . . . The New York Times captured the new corporate order succinctly in 1987, reporting that... 'All such allegiances are viewed as expendable under the new rules. With survival at stake, only market leadership, strong profits and a high stock price can be allowed to matter'.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Strong, Jobs, New York

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• A collapse in U.S. stock prices certainly would cause a lot of white knuckles on Wall Street. But what effect would it have on the broader U.S. economy? If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.

  Ben Bernanke

  Wall, White, Doe

  "A Crash Course for Central Bankers" by Ben Bernanke, foreignpolicy.com. November 20, 2009.

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• Over many decades, our usual practice is that if something we like goes down, we buy more and more. Sometimes something happens, you realize you’re wrong, and you get out. But if you develop correct confidence in your judgment, buy more and take advantage of stock prices.

  Charlie Munger

  Practice, Usual, Investing

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• Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. I do not feel there will be soon if ever a 50 or 60 point break from present levels, such as (bears) have predicted. I expect to see the stock market a good deal higher within a few months.

  Irving Fisher

  Depression, Point Break, Looks

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• If you can follow only one bit of data, follow the earnings - assuming the company in question has earnings. I subscribe to the crusty notion that sooner or later earnings make or break an investment in equities. What the stock price does today, tomorrow, or next week is only a distraction.

  Peter Lynch

  Next Week, Data, Doe

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Driving stock up from one day to the next is not what we are about. We are about building a good company and performing for the long term. I know everyone says that, that sounds trite when I repeat it that way, but that is and has always been our attitude about our business. If we do the right things, the stock price will take care of itself, and our shareholders will be rewarded.

  James Sinegal

  Attitude, Business, Long

  "The CEO Behind Costco". Interview with David Gardner, www.fool.com. January 18, 2005.

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• I always had faith in the internet. I believed in it and thought it was obviously going to change the way the world worked. I really did not understand why others were selling their stock. As stock prices plunged, I just bought them, one after another, since I had the money. I guess I was rather lucky.

  Takafumi Horie

  Money, Lucky, World

  "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. November 23, 2005.

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• It's not that stock prices are capricious. It's that the news is capricious.

  Burton Malkiel

  News, Investing, Capricious

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• To prop up the stock price, managers have to turn down the screws on everybody. That forces them to cancel all the projects that would lead to future growth in order to drop money to the bottom line. This is HP's dilemma today. Once a company's growth has stopped, the game as we have known it is over. It's a scary thing.

  Clayton Christensen

  Order, Games, Scary

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• How could Digital's collapse be so precipitous? It's because, in many ways, financial performance data is misleading. As you move up to the top of the market, you're getting rid of the less profitable products at the low end and adding business with more attractive margins at the high end. The rate of unit volume growth might be tapering off as you pursue these smaller markets, but your margins actually look better. So Wall Street rewards your stock price until you hit the ceiling.

  Clayton Christensen

  Wall, Moving, Data

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it's made by Warren Buffett.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Warren Buffet, Made

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• A lot of share-buying, not bargain-seeking, is designed to prop stock prices up. Thirty to 40 years ago, it was very profitable to look at companies that were aggressively buying their own shares. They were motivated simply to buy below what it was worth.

  Charlie Munger

  Years, Looks, Buying

  "Berkshire Behind the Scenes: Part 3". Interview with Rick Casterline, www.fool.com. May 30, 2006.

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• Fundamental analysis seeks to establish how underlying values are reflected in stock prices, whereas the theory of reflexivity shows how stock prices can influence underlying values

  George Soros

  Analysis, Fundamentals, Influence

  George Soros (2003). “The Alchemy of Finance”, p.58, John Wiley & Sons

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• It was not hard to persuade people that the market was sound; as always in such times they asked only that the dispiriting voices of doubt be muted and that there should be tolerably frequent expressions of confidence.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Expression, Voice, People

  "The Great Crash, 1929". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, Chapter V, The Twilight of Illusion, Section II, p. 70, 1954.

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• Sell before the holidays. Stock prices tend to rise on the last trading day before major holidays.

  Nancy Dunnan

  Holiday, Lasts, Trading

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• There's something that's so basically corrupt about any system in which a good and fair profit is not enough. There has to be more, every year, every quarter, because your stock price has to rise.

  Paul Haggis

  Years, Enough, Profit

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