Stock Quotes

The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.

Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.

Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included.

On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from.

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones.

I had a couple of million dollars' worth of... stock once. And now it's not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn't born to be rich.

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.

Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.

I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.

In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.

My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.

Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself.

Even from the very beginning, I didn't put any money in the stock market.

I'm a kid who did stock and summer youth theater where we'd put up two shows and you had no rehearsal. I've also understudied, where I've had to go on with no rehearsal.

One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than a market order.

Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade.

We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario.

I love being at home, being with friends and family. I'm of European stock, brought up in Australia. I'm a passionate guy. I just love life.

An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the art world in New York. It made the kind of work I was doing interesting to galleries that wouldn't have normally been interested in it.

I think that stocks have been this tremendous, tremendous equalizer for people in this country. Guys who can't make a lot of money at their jobs have been able to make a lot of money in the stock market.

Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market.

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining.

I have invested in the stock market since I was very young.

I used to go to Vegas and play the horses, and then I realised how ridiculous that was. There is no winning in gambling, but there is on the stock market.