In college I started studying the stock market. I went down to the stock exchange, watched all the activity from the visitors' gallery, people running around, calling numbers, shouting, and all the paper flying and the bells ringing, and of course that was exciting, and it seemed to lend itself to my analytical skills.
When Trump was a candidate, he talked about the stock market, because, oh, the stock market was going up when Obama was president.
I really believe that you cannot use the stock market as a proxy for the economy.
There are several things that can create an alpha - stock buybacks are one. High dividend yields are another, especially nowadays because the stock market yields more than the banks and the tenure treasury. But by and large, it tends to be companies with a strong cash flow, rising sales, accelerated earnings, a profit margin expansion.
I think businesses live longer that are on the stock market.
Under Reagan came the idea of putting your pension plan in the stock market, which wasn't a guaranteed pension.
Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.
I found the stock market very intriguing because prices used to fluctuate, I used to wonder why the price fluctuates.
I have a million dollars in the stock market, because if I lose a million dollars, I don't personally care.
Even from the very beginning, I didn't put any money in the stock market.
The stock market can be down, but the stock market is not an indication of where people's spirits and enthusiam are, and where their intellectual energy is.
Every portfolio benefits from bonds; they provide a cushion when the stock market hits a rough patch. But avoiding stocks completely could mean your investment won't grow any faster than the rate of inflation.
I'm quite bullish. We're coming up on year 15 of a flat stock market. Historically that's a pretty good sign. So I'm not a hedge-fund manager but if I was I think I'd be feeling pretty good.
When my book 'Rich Dad's Prophecy' was released in 2002, most financial newspapers and magazines trashed it because I discussed a looming stock market crash.
Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies.
China frequently confounds stock market prognosticators because it has a penchant for straying markedly from other broad global indexes year-by-year over the decades - even from emerging markets. It's hit or miss.
It is argued by our GDP obsessed policy planners that eventually the money being made by the stock market operators or the IT industry would trickle down to the poor farmers in terms of ancillary jobs that would be created. But the fact is, that this has not happened, despite the boom in the stock market and the IT industry.
Whenever I see a stock market explode, six to 12 months later you are in a full blown recovery.
A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse.
If Tung Chee-hwa dies, the stock market will take off.