Volatility Quotes

Volatility Quote of the day

The true investor welcomes volatility ... a wildly fluctuating market means that irrationally low prices will periodically be attached to solid businesses.

Impermanence is not something to be afraid of. It's the evolution, a never-ending horizon.

Oh Lord, purify my soul from all its stains. Warm my heart with the love of thee, animate my sluggish nature and fix my inconstancy, and volatility, that I may not be weary in well doing.

Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established

When a long-term trend loses it’s momentum, short-term volatility tends to rise. It is easy to see why that should be so: the trend-following crowd is disoriented.

Outperforming the market with low volatility on a consistent basis is an impossibility. I outperformed the market for 30-odd years, but not with low volatility.

One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.

Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.

Using volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent loss of capital, or 2) the risk of inadequate return.

Is the economy something organic or is it something engineered? I think it's closer to the organic. You harm it by artificially suppressing volatility in it.

Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings.

We know that by simply changing our allocation between stocks and bonds, we can lessen the amount of volatility in our portfolio until we reach our comfortable sleep level.

Any system that is deprived of its natural volatility, with government up (unintelligible) volatile, any system becomes very fragile.

Volatility is a symptom that people have no idea of the underlying value.

I am not going to make decisions based on barricades and blockades, nor am I going to make decisions based on the short-term volatility of the oil price.

Global warming creates volatility. I feel it when I'm flying. The storms are more volatile. We are paying the price in more hurricanes and tornadoes.

Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day.

My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility.

Energy is significantly underpriced in many parts of the world, leading to wasteful consumption, price volatility and fuel smuggling. It's also undermining the competitiveness of renewables.

For the investor who knows what he is doing, volatility creates opportunity.

Poetry does need a bit of ferocity. The only way to attend to the fractured world is to write a ferocious kind of music, to sing that volatility.

Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.

Political life loves some volatility.

I don't enjoy any kind of danger or volatility. I don't have that kind of 'I love the bad guys' thing. No, no thank you. I like nice people.

If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.

In economics, when you put together a highly elastic thing and a highly inelastic thing, you create extraordinary potential for turbulence, volatility, and for unstable prices.

We've seen the volatility at dollar-yen, U.S. Treasurys, JGBs (Japanese government bonds), German bunds.

Switzerland is the perfect place where you have volatility at a municipal level that nothing up top - small units competing with each other.

We are facing extreme volatility.

Because of that [Brexit], you're going to have slow growth and, unfortunately, while there may not be huge volatility, there will be volatility.

Volatility and length, that's the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that's a big valuable thing.

Global warming causes volatility. I feel it when I'm flying.

Nobody really knows what the market is going to do, but it sure looks like we are going to have a lot more volatility.

Volatility in the up direction is not a problem-it's only downward volatility that offers discourse.