Users browsing this forum: Kosmo , user and 28 guests. Market Timing Quotes Discuss all general i. I've got a guy bragging about his MBA from NYU and he's spouting off advice about where the market is heading.

The guy needs to be put in his place You cannot control the actions of others. You can only control your reactions to their actions. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness; Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. Wouldn't it be easier just to tune him out?

Does anybody have any good market timing quotes from some "big names" like Buffet? If you have allocated your assets properly and have sufficient emergency money, you shouldn't need to worry.

Market timing is dangerous. Bernard Baruch, famed investor "Market timing recommendations have an impressive track record of being harmful to an investor's financial health. Those who don't know where the market is headed, and those who don't know that they don't know.

Of 99 Diehard guesses that year, only 11 even guessed the direction of the stock market. Buckingham Financial Services "I never have the faintest idea what the stock market is going to do in the next six months, or the next year, or the next two.

Buy-and-hold is still your best long-run strategy. I think all of this market timing is statistically unfounded. I don't trust it. You may avoid a downturn, but you may also miss the rise. Choose the risk tolerance you're OK with and hold tight. Then follow that plan religiously, through all markets good and bad. All formulas, he concluded, failed. Put your money in index funds. Pay attention to the one thing you can control--costs.

Just keep making investments, and let the market take its course over the long-term. Time IN the market will get you to the winner's circle, and you'll sleep better at night. It always was my sitting.

Wm McNabb, Vanguard Chairman "At the peak of the bull market in March of only 0. It just doesn't work. What matters is that you stay invested. John Schoen, senior producer msnbc. A peasant however, who is rich beyond his limited dreams of avarice. Chandan Sengupta, financial author "The forecasting skill of economists is about as good as guessing.

Scott Simon, financial author "People want to know what lies ahead. I cannot tell them because I do not know.

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Buy-and-hold, because trading the stock market is a sucker's bet. Allow time to work its compounding magic for you.

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Let market timing inflict its miseries on someone else. Not only does buy-and-hold investing offer better returns, but it's also less work. I don't even know anybody who knows anybody who has done it successfully and consistently. Does anbody have any good market timing quotes from some "big names" like Buffet?

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Those who predict don't have knowledge". Lao Tzu 6th century BC The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so full of doubt.

Nothing destroys capital more efficiently than arrogance. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held.

Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.

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The stories change, the pockets change, the suckers change, but Wall Street never changes because human nature never changes. Thank you for these great quotes. They apply as much to investing as to everyday life. This one by Bertrand Russell may be my favorite: Who is online Users browsing this forum: Home Board index All times are UTC No guarantees are made as to the accuracy of the information on this site or the appropriateness of any advice to your particular situation.