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Stocks and bonds to watch, market news, definitions, advices, resources and useful quotes, with links to some old posts to understand how to avoid big mistakes.

Definition of Stock: a stock (also known as an equity or a share) is a portion of the ownership of a corporation. A share in a corporation gives the owner of the stock a stake in the company and its profits. If a corporation has issued 100 stocks in total, then each stock represents a 1% ownership in the company.

Definition of Bond: a debt investment in which an investor loans money to an entity (corporate or governmental) that borrows the funds for a defined period of time at a fixed interest rate. Bonds are used by companies, municipalities, states and U.S. and foreign governments to finance a variety of projects and activities. Bonds are commonly referred to as fixed-income securities and are one of the three main asset classes, along with stocks and cash equivalents.

It’s an extremely good thing that money sometimes changes hands.
Carl William Brown

One mustn’t allow acting to be like stockbroker, you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.
John Gielgud

Investments and trading activities might get you rich, but you don’t have to make many misjudgments or slipups, and what’s more you must absolutely avoid any big mistake. So, it’s not easy!
Carl William Brown

I always say that you could publish my trading rules in the newspaper and no one would follow them. The key is consistency and discipline. Almost anybody can make up a list of rules that are 80% as good as what we taught our people. What they couldn’t do is give them the confidence to stick to those rules even when things are going bad.
Richard Dennis Pless

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
Andre Malraux

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, ”At my age, I don’t even buy green bananas.
Claude D. Pepper

Back then, if you had a sore arm, the only people concerned were you and your wife. Now it’s you, your wife, your agent, your investment counselor, your stockbroker, and your publisher.
Jim Bouton

On facebook I created a page and I called it “trading lovers” because as a matter of fact, love is nonetheless a form of trading.
Carl William Brown

If you are a good trader you can steal money from the rich legally, because it’s an extremely good thing that money sometimes must change hands.
Carl William Brown

If All the Economists Were Laid End to End, Would They Reach a Conclusion?
George Bernard Shaw

Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That’s why economics is not the dismal science, it’s no science at all.
Julian Baggini

In economics, the majority is always wrong.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
John Kenneth Galbraith

I’m only rich because I know when I’m wrong.
George Soros

To learn how to be a good trader you must first learn how to become a real cynic!
Carl William Brown

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.
Warren Buffett

It is very vulgar to talk about one’s business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.
Oscar Wilde

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
Charles Dickens

The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
Bertrand Russell

Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production – only to produce a race of bed-wetters!
Barbara Ehrenreich

Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state.
Thomas Jefferson

You need to have enough immediate profits that you can finance the long-range growth without diluting the stock.
Paul Cook

Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it.
Will Rogers

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities. You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let’s say you desire security. Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.
Alan Lakein