#investor

Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich. ↗

— Naomi Klein

#because #creditors #investors #poor #rich

In normal times, investors should pay more attention to the credit markets because it's the energy by which everything is driven. It's the oil in the engine. ↗

— Rick Santelli

#because #credit #driven #energy #engine

Instead of stocks investors should invest in blankets, that way they’ll at least have something to keep them warm after they’ve lost all their money when the company goes under. ↗

— Amy Summers

#brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #finance #funny

The United States has the most sophisticated financial markets in the world, which does not leave much room to maneuver. But it also offers investors the greatest access to information and the ability to execute trades quickly and efficiently. So it is a mixed bag of opportunity. ↗

— Andrew Lo

#access #also #bag #does #efficiently

The adaptive markets hypothesis says that all economic institutions, like our own species, develop and change over time, depending on the population of investors that are engaged with them. ↗

— Andrew Lo

#change #depending #develop #economic #engaged

I think the tech stock, the public market is still completely traumatized by the dotcom crash. I think the investors and reporters and analysts and everybody is determined to not get taken advantage of again, and that is what everybody who lived through 2000, what they kind of remember. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#again #completely #crash #determined #everybody

Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets. ↗

— Maria Bartiromo

#become #buying #collectively #credit #far

The institutional investor remains the bigger influence on individual trades simply because the institutional investor has more money to support the order and that will have more of an impact on the stock. ↗

— Maria Bartiromo

#bigger #impact #individual #influence #institutional

If you're a retail investor, you have set aside some of your hard-earned money for investment or to create a nest egg, for your kids or family. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#create #egg #family #investment #investor

I think it's a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It's why investors try to spread their portfolio round. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#economic #factor #i #i think #investors