Volatility Quotes

• For the investor who knows what he is doing, volatility creates opportunity.

  John Train

  Opportunity, Knows, Investors

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• The true investor welcomes volatility ... a wildly fluctuating market means that irrationally low prices will periodically be attached to solid businesses.

  Warren Buffett

  Mean, Lows, Investors

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.161, John Wiley & Sons

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• Outperforming the market with low volatility on a consistent basis is an impossibility. I outperformed the market for 30-odd years, but not with low volatility.

  George Soros

  Years, Risk, Management

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• Volatility is a symptom that people have no idea of the underlying value.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Ideas, People, Investing

  "Henry Blodget Debates Jeremy Grantham". Interview with James M. Clash, www.forbes.com. June 12, 2000.

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• When a long-term trend loses it’s momentum, short-term volatility tends to rise. It is easy to see why that should be so: the trend-following crowd is disoriented.

  George Soros

  Long, Momentum, Crowds

  George Soros (2003). “The Alchemy of Finance”, p.83, John Wiley & Sons

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• I've always said, the key organ here isn't the brain, it's the stomach. When things start to decline - there are bad headlines in the papers and on television - will you have the stomach for the market volatility and the broad-based pessimism that tends to come with it?

  Peter Lynch

  Learning, Keys, History

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• Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.

  Philip Roth

  Aggravation, Greed, Decline

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• Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Quality, Fragility, Vulnerable

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• Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established

  George Soros

  Trends, Term, Diminish

  George Soros (2003). “The Alchemy of Finance”, p.170, John Wiley & Sons

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• If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are like. Money amplifies our tendency to overreact, to swing from exuberance when things are going well to deep depression when they go wrong. Booms and busts are products, at root, of our emotional volatility.

  Niall Ferguson

  Emotional, Swings, Roots

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• Using volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent loss of capital, or 2) the risk of inadequate return.

  Charlie Munger

  Loss, Nuts, Risk

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• Ideally, nothing should be embraced by a consumer firmly, nothing should command a commitment till death do us part, no needs should be seen as fully satisfied, no desires considered ultimate. There ought to be a proviso 'until further notice' attached to any oath of loyalty and any commitment. It is but the volatility, the in-built temporality of all engagements that truly counts; it counts more than the commitment itself, which is anyway not allowed to outlast the time necessary for consuming the object of desire (or, rather, the time sufficient for the desirability of that object to wane).

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Loyalty, Commitment, Desire

  Zygmunt Bauman (2013). “Globalization: The Human Consequences”, p.56, John Wiley & Sons

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• Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Thinking, Stability, Variability

  "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. December 3, 2012.

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• A good marriage is loving someone in a lot of different circumstances. Respect for them and their views and ideas and the life that they're leading with you. Shared values and interests. A good sense of humour. And a little volatility along the way.

  Edward Kennedy

  Views, Ideas, Loving Someone

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• My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility.

  Tim Kaine

  Mean, Anxiety, Economic

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• Global warming creates volatility. I feel it when I'm flying. The storms are more volatile. We are paying the price in more hurricanes and tornadoes.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Flying, Storm, Tornadoes

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• We are facing extreme volatility.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Extremes

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• Nobody really knows what the market is going to do, but it sure looks like we are going to have a lot more volatility.

  David Wessel

  Looks, Knows

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Clouds, Fickle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.13

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• Impermanence is not something to be afraid of. It's the evolution, a never-ending horizon.

  Deepak Chopra

  Horizon, Evolution, Impermanence

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• Ridiculous as our market volatility might seem to an intelligent Martian, it is our reality and everyone loves to trot out the 'quote' attributed to Keynes (but never documented): 'The market can stay irrational longer than the investor can stay solvent.' For us agents, he might better have said 'The market can stay irrational longer than the client can stay patient.'

  Jeremy Grantham

  Intelligent, Reality, Clients

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• Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day.

  Alex Berenson

  Rising, May, Information

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• There are several states that move from Karl Marx-like policies to Adam Smith-like policies and back again in a weekend. So for the states with huge volatility in their income tax policies over time, the differences in growth rates in those periods are really amazingly consistent with tax rates really mattering.

  Arthur Laffer

  Moving, Weekend, Differences

  "How Low Can They Go? Arthur Laffer Defends Slashing State Income Taxes". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. August 1, 2013.

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• Oh Lord, purify my soul from all its stains. Warm my heart with the love of thee, animate my sluggish nature and fix my inconstancy, and volatility, that I may not be weary in well doing.

  William Wilberforce

  Heart, Soul, May

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• Because of that [Brexit], you're going to have slow growth and, unfortunately, while there may not be huge volatility, there will be volatility.

  Jamie Dimon

  Growth, May, Huge

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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